SAMUEL BOURNE; BOURNE & SHEPHERD; & SHEPHERD & ROBERTSON BOURNE, SAMUEL (18

SAMUEL BOURNE; BOURNE & SHEPHERD; & SHEPHERD & ROBERTSON BOURNE, SAMUEL (1834-1912), CHARLES SHEPPARD (FL. 1858-1878) AND ARTHUR ROBERTSON (FL 1858-1864), Hindostan, Cashmere, and Tartary, an extremely rare and important album containing 92 albumen photographs, depicting assorted Indian landscapes and ethnographic studies of the Indian peoples, c.1860-1870, in three volumes, each in rectangular folio size bound albums, 18.5'' (47cm) x 23.5'' (60cm) approx; the photographs varying in size and orientation, nearly all with period manuscript captions, the majority signed by the photographer(s) and numbered in the negative. List of Photographs: Vol 1: 1. Our Shooting Party of 1864 2. Hooseinabad Emambara, Lucknow 3. Group of Thugs 4. Hindostan and Thibet Road at Rogi 5. Tomb of Nizamoodeen 6. Jumma Musjid, Delhi 7. View on the Dahl Canal Cashmere 8. Cedar Mosque on the Thelum, Cashmere 9. Village of Gugangair, Sande Valley 10. Bailey Guard Gate, Lucknow 11. Skins of Animals Shot by P. Fitzgerald Esq. 12. Ruined Temple in Naoshera, Cashmere 13. Boat of the British Resident at Cashmere 14. Junction of the Buspa and Sutlej 15. Marochettis Statue Over the Well at Cawnpore 16. View in Wanga Valley 17. Manusbal Lake, Cashmere 18. Manirung Pass 19. Cooties in the Himalayas 20. Narkhanda Forest near Simla 21. The Saj at Agra from the Gardens 22. Junction of the Pean and Spitti Rivers, Dunkar 23. Pillars in Brahminical Temple at Gwalior 24. Mussacks for Crossing the Beas River, Koolu 25. Cashmere Gate, Dehli 26. Tomb of Sheik Chisti, Futtehpore, Sikri 27. Marble Tomb, Govindund 28. View in the Kaiser Bagh, Lucknow 29. Suméree Temple, Ramnugar 30. Deodar Cedars 31. Gwan Bapee, Benares Vol 2 32. Hon W.P. Bouverie, Penrose Fitzgerald Esq., etc 33. Interior of the Palace, Dehli 34. Group of Cashmere Nautch Girls 35. Hooseimabad Bazaar, Lucknow 36. Burning Ghat, Benares 37. Hamla Pass, Kulu 38. Rajah Amehtis Temple, Benares 39. Scinde Valley, Cashmere 40. Evening on the Jhetum, Cashmere 41. Lagu Darsy Stream at Kiolo, Spitti Valley 42. Great Arch and Iron Pillar at the Kutub near Dehli 43. Great Snowy Peak from the Hamla Pass 44. Surveying Party in Cashmere 1863 45. Glacier on the Hamla Pass 46. European and Native Officers of Probyn's Horse 47. Head of Wanga Valley 48. Chandichowk, Dehli 49. Twig Bridge over the Chenal 50. The Mall at Simla, Himalayas 51. Zojji la Pass, Himalayas 52. Group of Chumba Guddies 53. Cliff in the Scinde Valley 54. Snake Charmers 55. Avenue of Poplars and Vines, Cashmere 56. Sutlej, Himalayas 57. Ruins of the Residency, Lucknow 58. View on the Beas near Largi 59. Bridge of Boats over the Ghontee 60. Marqual Canal, Cashmere 61. Jakko Hill, Simla 62. Elephant Tower, Futtehpore Sikri Volume 3 63. Colonel Gardner 64. Pillars in the Pauch Mahal 65. Gate of the Kaiser Bagh, Lucknow 66. Sculptured Figures of Buddhists near Gwatior 67. View in the Wanga Valley 68. Dunkar Fort, Spitti Valley 69. Futtehpore Sikri, Palace of Akbar 70. Temples and Bazaar at Chumba 71. The Taj at Agra from the River 72. View in Wanga Valley, Cashmere 73. Pillar in the Dewan-i-kass 74. Spitti River at Kioto 75. Futtehpore, Sikri, from the Top of the Dewan-i-kass 76. Ruins at Marthund, Cashmere 77. Our Shooting Party, Cashmere, June 1864 78. Scinde Valley, Cashmere 79. Shikarees of the 93rd Highlanders 80. Glen near Kot, Himalayas 81. Kaiser Pusund, Lucknow 82. Losar, Spitti Valley 83. Trelissed Marble Screen 84. Spitti River near Shigri 85. Council of India, 1864 86. High Cliffs on the Sutlej River, Tartary 87. Kahutub Minar near Dehli 88. Village of Losar, Spitti 89. Shalimar Gardens, Cashmere 90. Shigri 91. Stone Pillar Raised by Feroze Shah 92. Monastery at Ki, Spitti A note on Samuel Bourne: Born in Nottingham, England, Samuel Bourne was an outstanding landscape photographer. He is now best known for his valuable and beautiful record of the Indian sub-continent. He wrote of photography that it allowed him to change the way he looked at the world: ''...it teaches the mind to see the beauty and power of such scenes ... For my own part, I may say that before I commenced photography I did not see half the beauties in nature that I do now, and the glory and power of a precious landscape has often passed before me and left but a feeble impression on my untutored mind; but it will never be so again.'' Working in India between 1863 and 1870, Bourne made well over three thousand negatives (mostly using the collodian process) during his travels, which included three separate expeditions to the Himalayas. Major collections of his work are held by the British Library (India Office collection), London, and at the Royal Photographic Society, Bath, England. The present album is quite unusual in terms of its content, including many more images of Himalayan landscape than normally encountered. The Bourne images comprise (titles from the manuscript captions, with Bourne's negative number in brackets):