15. Kusakabe Kimbei, G.R. Lambert (G.R.) world album, c.1860s-1880s Including views and figure studies of Singapore (c.12), some at least by Lambert, China (6, including two execution scenes and two attributed to Saunders), Japan (37) by Kusakabe Kimbei and possibly others, some hand-tinted, Gibraltar (3), Port Said, India (29, including Madura, blind-stamped Orr & Barton, Goa, Bombay, Baroda, Ahmedabad, Jeypore, Delhi, Agra, Cawnpore, Lucknow, Calcutta and the Himalayas) and 3 views of Vancouver, B.C., by Bailey Bros, in all 95 albumen prints, all but a few c.200 x 270mm. (8x10in.), mounted on both sides of card leaves, contemporary leather-backed Japanese lacquer boards, fore-edge of upper cover slightly chipped, oblong 4to.
est. £1500 – £2000