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Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History
London
30 April 2015
Viewing 25-29 April
(early viewing by appointment)
Online catalogue:
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2015/travel-atlases-maps-natura...
Photographic highlights include:
Sir William Everett’s album of 43 silver prints and 14 watercolours of Eastern Turkey [1879-1887]
£5,000-7,000
Lot 210
Edward Chapman’s personal annotated set of 89 albumen prints of Yarkand and Kashgar (1873-74)
£10,000-15,000
Lot 215
Dr Charles Hose. Album of 169 platinum prints of Sarawak [c.1884-1900]
£30,000-40,000
Lot 224
John Thomson. The Antiquities of Cambodia, 1867, First edition, with 16 albumen prints
(illustrated above)
£20,000-30,000
Lot 225
John Claude White. Sikhim, and Sikhim & Tibet frontier. Two albums of 60 carbon prints [c.1903]
£10,000-20,000
Lots 226-234
SINGAPORE. A private collection of 19th century photographs of Singapore and region
Lot 240
St Julian Hugh Edwards. Album of 63 albumen prints of Amoy (Xiamen) and vicinity [China, 1860s]
£40,000-60,000
Lot 256
Major J.C. Watson. Presentation album of 100 albumen prints of Ningpo (Ningbo). [China, c.1870]
£40,000-60,000
Lot 257
Major J.C. Watson, Dr John Dudgeon, John Thomson. Album of 99 albumen prints of Peking (Beijing), Ningpo (Ningbo) and environs. [China, late 1860s]
£40,000-60,000
Other Photographs:
EUROPE & GENERAL TRAVEL
Lots 68-70, and 86
POLAR
Lot 77
NEAR & MIDDLE EAST
Lots 146, 148, 156, 157, 160, 163, 173, 179, 184-188, 190, 193,
ASIA
Lots 205-210, 212-220, 222, 224-234, 239-243, 245-247, 250, 256-258
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2015/travel-atlases-maps-natura...
Victoria and Albert Museum's photography collection
National Science and Media Museum
RPS Journal 1853-2012 online and searchable
Photographic History Research Centre, Leicester
Birkbeck History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné
British Photography. The Hyman Collection
The Press Photo History Project Mapping the photo agencies and photographers of Fleet Street and the UK
The correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot
Historic England Archive
UAL Photography and Photography and the Archive Research Centre
Royal Photographic Society's Historical Group
www.londonstereo.com London Stereoscopic Company / T. R. Williams
www.earlyphotography.co.uk British camera makers and companies
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock.
National Portrait Gallery, London
http://www.freewebs.com/jb3d/
Alfred Seaman and the Photographic Convention
Frederick Scott Archer
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