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SAMUEL BOURNE (1834-1912) Album with approximately 56 images, most of India and many by Bourne, as well several photographs of Malta. The album opens with several photographs of Malta, including one 3-part panorama and four 2-part panoramas. The remainder of the album features scenes from India, 23 with Bourne's credit and a few more with his inventory number, and including sweeping landscapes, landmark sites in Mumbai (Bombay), Agra, and Delhi, as well as detailed images of mosques, temple interiors, the Ganges, and more remote mountainous terrain. Albumen prints, the images measuring 9⅜x11¾ inches (23.8x29.8 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, the panoramas 8⅛x20 inches (20.6x50.8 cm.), mounted recto/verso, 26 with Bourne's credit or inventory number in the negative, and three more with another credit Laurier, many with captions in pencil on the mount. Folio, gilt-lettered leather, lightly worn. 1863-70
Bourne arrived in India in 1863 and opened a photographs studio in Simla. He left India only seven years later, in 1870, and by then had produced over 2500 views. His record of India was exhaustive, meticulous, and highly appreciated by tourists, scientists, and collectors.
