This auction includes many photographs from the mid-19th century through to the mid-20th century, covering many parts of the globe. Of great rarity is a group of glass plate negatives of China by Thomas Child, which are the only known negatives by Child to survive and were made in Beijing in the 1870s and 1880s (lot 201). We are also delighted to offer photographs from the collection of Sven Gahlin, including a number of important 19th century albums of Indian and Anglo-Indian subjects by Shepherd & Robertson, Samuel Bourne, Eugene Clutterbuck Impey and Sir Benjamin Simpson among others. The Gahlin collection also includes photographs by Thomas Annan (shown right), Herbert G. Ponting, Hill & Adamson, and early photographs of Canada by Frederick Dally (lot 168).
BRITISH ISLES
25. Annan. Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow. 1900
- Hill & Adamson. Afghans or Circassian armour
- James. Plans and photographs of Stonehenge, 1867
EUROPE
62. Constantinou.. Album of Athens, c.1860
- Terris. Marseille, c.1862
- Ponti. Venice, 1855
GENERAL
79. Dammann. Ethnological Photo gallery, c.1875
NEAR & MIDDLE EAST
96. Bonfils. Palestine album, 1870s
- Album of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Athanes, 1870s-80s
- Bonfils. Egypt, 1870s
- Bonfils. Syria, 1870s
- Egypt, late C19th
- Frith. Sinai & Palestine, 1862
- Beck. Views of Athens, c.1864
- Holmes. North West Frontier photographs, 1920s-30s
- American Colony. Mammoth photo of the Dome of the Rock, c.1900
- Frith. Mammoth plate of Jerusalem, 1858
- Lebanon. Collection of albums, c.1920s
- Mecca & the Hajj
- The Egyptian Mahmal
- Mecca and the Mahmal
- Bonfils & others. Palestine, Constantinople, Lebanon etc.
- Persia. A collection of photographs, C19th and C20th
- Persian Gulf album of Bushehr, c.1909
- Portrait of Ibn Saud by Robert Richie c.1950
- Arabia photographs, 1917-18
- Album of Syria, c.1874
- Abdullah Freres. Constantinople, c.1865
- United Arab Emirates collection
AMERICAS
- Hawaii, c. 1870s
- Frederick Dally. Album of British Columbia, 1867-70
- Bermuda collection, c.1870s
- Mexico album, c. 1896-1900
AFRICA
181. East Africa, 1904-09
- East Africa, c.1880s
- Comoros islands, 1885
- Morocco, 1910
- South Africa, Zulu War, c.1879
ASIA
- Borneo, Brunei and Malaysia album, 1924-26
- Bourne. Album of India, c.1865-80
- Bourne. Album of India, 1870s
- Bourne. India photographs, c.1870s
- Andaman islands, c.1919-21
- Gastaldy. Cambodia, c.1930
- ?Ponting. Ceylon
- Thomas Child. Negatives of China, c.1870s-80s
- China photographs, c.1920s
- China photographs, c.1906
- China Magazine, 1868
- China Album, 1906
- Gsell. Cambodia, 1860s-70s
- Gsell. Indochina, 1860s-70s
- Gsell. Cambodia & Vietnam, c.1860s-70s
- Gsell. Vietnam, c.1870s80s
- Hong Kong panoramas
- Bourne & Shepherd etc. India & Ceylon
- Frith series. India
- Baudesson and others. India
- India, views around Calcutta
- Shepherd & Robertson. India
- India & Nepal. Album of maharajahs etc., c.1880s
- Clarke and others. Album of India, c.1859-60s
- India. Album including Sikh and British military groups, c.1862-72
- Impey. Album of photographs of India, c.1858-63
- Gastaldy. Indochina, c.1930
- Gastaldy. Indichina, c.1930
- Japan album, c.1890s
- Kashmir Album, c.1886-92
- Korea. Photographs by Felice Beato, c. 1871
- Korea stereoviews, 1904
- Sikkim and Tibet, 1885
- Panorama of Yekaterinburg, 1880s
- Sumutra and Indonesia, c.1890s
- Philippines, c.1890s
- Pont. India, c.1860s-70s
- Portuguese Timor. C.1902
- Salzwedel. Indonesia, c.1870s-90s
- Schulze. Indonesia and Thailand, c. 1870s-90s
- Shanghai album, c.1900
- Shanghai panorama
- Siamese portraits, 1860s-70s
- Skeen. Ceylon and Java, 1860s-80s
- Skeen. Ceylon, 1880s
- Simpson. India, 1860s
- Thomson. China, 1873
- Assmy. Yangtze River, 1906
- Ponting. Polar photos, 1910-13
- Ponting. Polar photos, 1910-13
- Antarctic Expedition photo, 1901
269. Ponting. The Tenements, c. 1913
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