Sale 2520 | Lot 334V
(INDIA & KANDY--SRI LANKA) A group of 3 albums, with a total of 95 photographs, of India and Sri Lanka. The first is an amateur's album with 22 lovely scenes of India, including a 2-part panorama, and a few professional views of Egypt; the second is a Grand Tour album compiled by Jane Sleater, a British gentlewoman, with 20 commercially-produced crisp photographs of India, including numerous temples and tombs, plus more than thirty scenic views throughout England and numerous reproductions of Italian paintings; and the third is a talented amateur's abum with 45 prints of Sri Lanka and India, including views of altars, temples, and rural scenes. Albumen prints, the images ranging from 4½x7 to 5x14½ to 7x9 inches (11.4x17.8 to 12.7x36.8 to cm.), many with a caption. 4tos, morocco, bindings soiled and worn. 1860s-70s
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