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Estimate: $ 4,500 - $ 5,500
(INDIA) <>bourne, samuel; skeen & co. <> Set of 3 matching albums entitled "India, vols. 1, 2, and 3," containing more than 220 photographs of colonial India, and also featuring pictures of Nepal and Ceylon [Colombo], including powerful portraits, military figures in the Khyber Pass, marvelous studies of the people of Darjeeling, exotic religious architectural views, mendicant Himalayan priests, landscapes, and various missionary groups. Albumen prints, most are 8 1/2x11 inches or the reverse, more than 40 with Bourne's signature, caption, or inventory number in the negative; with 7 prints by Skeen (of Ceylon) in vol. 1. Oblong folio, gilt-lettered 1/2 morocco; all edges gilt. 1860s
