Photographs, Postcards & Posters, Autographs, Documents & Ephemera

* American Civil War. A sixth-plate tintype of a US Confederate Colonel in uniform, early 1860s, '3' visible on one shoulder, together with a nint...

* Annan & Sons, Glasgow. Photographs of Glasgow Harbour and Docks – Clyde Navigation, [1892-1897], a collection of 8 platinum prints, three with ‘...

* Australia & New Zealand. A three-part panorama of Brisbane from the Observatory, c. 1870, albumen prints, horizontal closed tear to right margi...

* Australia. 'An Aborigine – “King Tommy” of Northern N. S. W. 30, 403', c. 1885, diapositive glass lantern slide by George Washington Wilson & co...

* Baker (Casper Joseph, 1852-1918). An album of photographs compiled by naval cadet Casper Baker, c. 1865-73, containing mounted albumen prints of...

* Bedford (Francis, 1816-1894). A group of 3 albumen print photographs published as part of Bedford’s Tour in the East, c. 1862, comprising Cairo ...

* Bourne (Samuel, 1834-1912). Lepcha woman sitting on a stone, Darjeeling, c. 1870, albumen print, approx. 22 x 16 cm, together with a photograph ...

* British Navy & East Africa. An album containing 46 window-mounted small format photographs c. 1896, 46 window-mounted snapshot photographs inclu...

* Cartes de Visite. A collection of over 220 cartes de visite and cabinet cards, c. 1860s and later, mostly unidentified men, women and children, ...

* Cased Images. An unusual quarter-plate ambrotype showing five ambrotype portraits, together with four sixth-plate and three ninth-plate ambrotyp...

* China. A photograph album of 50 views of West Lake, Hangchow [Hangzhau], c. 1910-11, gelatin silver prints, including views of West Lake, and th...

* China. An album of 24 photographs of Shanghai and Peking, c. 1870s/1880s, albumen prints, all uncredited and mounted back to back on card leaves...

* China. An early view of Canton, c. 1865-70, albumen print, place name in the negative lower right, ink name to verso with some slight see-throug...

* Crimean War. A group of 5 photographs attributed to James Robertson, c. 1855, including 2 salt prints of the Barracks Battery: ‘Sebastopol from ...

* Cundall & Howlett. An over-painted salted paper print photograph of Sergeant Major Edwards by Cundall & Howlett, 1856, Edwards shown half-length...

* Egypt. An album containing 21 mounted albumen print photographs of views, scenes and people in Egypt, c. 1890, mostly by Bonfils with his name a...

* Egypt. An album containing 27 corner-mounted albumen prints of Egypt by Jean Paschal Sébah, c. 1890, mostly temples and views, signature and cre...

* Europe. A collection of approximately 235 albumen print photographs, late 19th century, mostly European views, including Italy (Venice, Naples, ...

* France. An album containing approximately 150 photographs of French views, buildings and people, c. 1870s, albumen prints, comprising approx. 10...

* Frith (Henry Albert). The Last of the Native Race of Tasmania, 1864, [after Frith] by Henry Hall Baily, c. 1875, albumen print, 195 x 160 mm, wi...

* Germany. A group of 6 large salted paper prints of Bamberg and Nuremberg, c. late 1850s, all featuring churches and buildings including one dist...

* Gower (Abel Anthony James, 1836-1899?), British consul at Nagasaki and Hakodate and amateur photographer. A view of Dejima from Minamiyamate in...

* Hay (George Heron & David Syme, photographers). A group of 4 full plate ambrotypes by G. & D. Hay, 68 Princes Street, Edinburgh, c. 1860, all ti...

* Hogarth's House. A photogravure of Hogarth's house and garden, Chiswick, c. 1880, original thick paper mount, plate impression 17.5 x 22.5 cm, s...

* Hong Kong. A group of 4 albumen prints of Hong Kong, c. 1880, including a view of the Mount Austin Hotel and Lamma Island & Hong Kong looking No...

* Hong Kong. A two-part albumen print panorama of Hong Kong harbour, c. 1880, 22 x 49 cm, some fading to left and right margins, old paper mountQT...

* India. A group of 20 albumen prints on card leaves, c. 1860/1870s, including four with Samuel Bourne’s signature in the negative and two with hi...

* India. An album containing 50 mounted albumen print photographs, late 19th century, including 31 views of India, Agra, Jeypore, Delhi, Dalhousie...

* Italy & France. A group of approximately 90 photographs of Italian and French views and scenes, late 19th century, commercial albumen prints, in...

* Italy. A large group of approximately 175 albumen prints of Italian views and architecture, c. 1880-1890, mostly views and buildings in Rome, bu...

James (Henry). Plans and Photographs of Stonehenge, and of Turusachan in the Island of Lewis; with notes relating to the Druids and sketches of Cr...

* Lai Fong (c. 1839-1890). Panorama of Canton, c. 1869, two-part albumen print, horizontal closed tear to right margin, light vertical creasing fr...

* Lowder Family. A group of 7 photographs of members of the Lowder family, including a 9th-plate daguerreotype, c. 1840-43, believed to be Lucy Al...

* Lowder Family. A quarter-plate daguerreotype of a young man in naval uniform, by Kilburn, 222 Regent Street, c. 1850, and tinted with clouds and...

Macpherson (Robert). Vatican Sculptures, circa 1860, 127 mounted albumen prints to rectos of thick paper, occasional spotting, a few leaves staine...

* Macpherson (Robert, 1811-1872). A group of 5 large format photographs of Rome, c. 1860, albumen prints, comprising Forum of Tarjan (20 a), The C...

* New Zealand & Australia. A disbound album containing 69 albumen prints of places in New Zealand, c. 1885, including Queenstown, Invercargill, La...

* Photograph Albums. A group of 10 mostly 19th-century photograph albums, containing mainly albumen print photographs of scenes in UK and Europe, ...

* Salar Jung I (Mir Turab Ali Kahn, 1829-1883). Portrait of the Prime Minister of Hyderabad State (1853-1883), c. 1870s, albumen print on thin car...

* Seychelles. An album of 46 mounted photographs of the Seychelles Messageries Maritimes, c. 1895, albumen prints, mostly 15 x 20 cm, mounted sing...

* Seychelles. A photograph album from the second class cruiser, HMS Bonaventure, 1896, containing a total of 51 mounted photographs, with images o...

* Seychelles. A very fine collection of 25 photographs taken by Colonel Lambert Playfair, and possibly others, during the visit to the Seychelles ...

* Shanghai Panorama. 'View of the Foreign Settlement at Shanghai. Taken by D. Satow of P.469, Nanking Road on 22nd August 1895, from the top of th...

* Singapore. A partly broken album containing 35 albumen print photographs of Singapore, c. 1890s, including 18 larger format photographs, mostly ...

* Claudet (Anton François, 1797-1867). A group of 4 hand-tinted stereoscopic daguerreotypes of members of the Reeves and Dyer-Edwardes families, c...

* Travel Photographs. An assorted group of 10 albumen prints, c. 1880s, including scenes and views in Japan, Fiji, India, including the Simla eart...

* Travel Photography. An assorted collection of 30 albumen prints of various views and peoples, c. 1880-90, including views and peoples of Turkey,...

* USA & Canada. A group of 24 albumen prints, c. 1880, including views of San Francisco, Yosemite, Niagara and Alaska, and eight views of Canada, ...

* Arab revolt in Palestine. Photograph album compiled by officer working for “T” Squad, 1937-38, containing approximately 150 mostly small-format ...

AR * Beaton (Cecil, 1804-1980). Portrait of a magician playing a concertina accordion, c. 1930, gelatin silver print, close-up head and shoulders...

* Beaton (Cecil, 1904-1980). A group of four studio head and shoulders portraits of Cecil Beaton wearing a jacket and tie, c. 1930s, vintage bromi...

* Beaton (Cecil, 1904-1980). A group of three studio portraits of Cecil Beaton, c. 1920-1930, the first a three-quarter length portrait in suit an...

AR * Beaton (Cecil, 1904-1980, attributed to). Self-portrait, c. mid 1920s, vintage bromide print, three-quarter face head close-up with bare sho...

* Brown (Charles Gage, 1826-1908), Medical adviser to the Colonial Office. A small quantity of family photographs and related ephemera, mid-19th c...

* Burma. A group of 13 photographs taken in Burma by J. E. Gillies of the Indian Civil Service, 1918, carbon prints, mostly depicting views and te...

Cecil (Hugh, 1892-1974). Portraits Made with the Camera, Privately published, London, c. 1920s, tipped in printed-title on hand-made paper, 6 gela...

* China Coast. An album of 156 mostly small-format gelatin silver prints, compiled by W. J. Jordan, Petty Officer Cook aboard HMS Dorsetshire, 193...

* China Through the Stereoscope. A near-complete set of 93 (of 100) stereo views, published by Underwood & Underwood, [1901], all numbered and cap...

* China. A group of 12 gelatin silver prints relating to ‘The Chinese Crisis’ 1929-30, depicting various people and scenes relating to the Chinese...

* China. A small three-part panorama of Chefoo [now Yantai], c. 1900, gelatin silver prints, laid on card, showing boats on the water looking towa...