Sotheby's auction of Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History in London on 29 April 2014 includes a number of lots of photographs. These include: sixty early photographs of Morocco (£45,000-50,000) and a newly-discovered very large 13-part panorama of Shanghai by Henry Cammidge, together with 25 photographs by Cammidge (£50,000-70,000).
Photographs:
NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST
149. Egypt. An Album of 127 photographs by various photographers [1880s-1890s]
150. Sinclair, J.A. Gallipoli campaign, 62 platininum prints [c.1915]
153. Holy Land. Forty Stereo photographs, 1880s-1890s
155. Holy Land. 198 stereo photographs, early 1900s
160. Robertson, James. Crimea, Constantinople and Athens. [1853-56], 47 salted paper and lightly albumenised prints
161. Saudi Arabia Railroad, [1951-53], 57 silver prints
AMERICAS
176. Houseworth, T. and others. 100 stereoviews, [c.1865-1880]
AFRICA
179. Annan, Thomas (after). Portrait of David Livingstone, oil on board, possibly painted over a photograph
180. Morocco—Cavilla, A., George Washington Wilson, Leon and Levy, and others. A good collection of 60 early photographs of Morocco.
CHINA
181. Boxer Rebellion. Forbes-Sempill manuscript journal including 2 photographs
182. Jehol. 62 glass lantern slides
183. China, Hong Kong and Indonesia. Album of carte-de-visites
184. Beijing. 97 photographs (late 19th early 20th century)
186. China and Hong Kong. 100 lantern slides, c.1920s
187. China and Hong Kong. Album of 46 photographs
188. Floyd. 3 photographs of Canton
190. Floyd. Panorama of Hong Kong
191. Floyd. China, Hong Kong and Macao, 4 albumen prints
192. Beijing. Album of 80 silver prints, early 1900s
193. Floyd. Panorama of Macao, c.1868
194. Shanghai and Canton, album of 47 silver prints, c.1903
195. Tientsin (Tianjin). 36 photographs, c.1889-1901
196. Shanghai. Henry C. Cammidge. A 13-part panorama of Shanghai, c.1873 and 25 albumen prints
197. Citters, A.J. van. 61 photographs of Beijing, c.1903-08
198. Afong. 22 albumen prints of the Hong Kong typhoon, September 1874
211. Thomson, John. Illustrations of China and its People, 1873-74, 4 volumes, a fine copy.
INDIA
212. A collection of 64 stereo photographs, c.1880s-early 1900s
ANTARCTIC
217. Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1955-58. Three albums containing 204 photographs
218. Ponting, H. Terra Nova in McMurdo Sound, 7 January 1911, large green toned carbon print, framed and glazed
219. Ponting, H. Terra Nova at the ice foot, Cape Evans, 16 January 1911, large green toned carbon print, framed and glazed
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