Photographs, Autographs & Historical Documents, British Royalty & World Leaders

* Aden. A pair of 4-part and 2-part panoramas of Aden, c. 1870, albumen prints, the larger panorama looking inland and showing the town buildings ...

* Africa. Portrait of an African man in French army uniform playing a lute, c. 1890, circular albumen print, colour tinting, paper mat, image 11 x...

* Africa. Portraits of West African Men in a Studio from the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889, albumen prints, showing a man smoking a pipe, a ...

* Alexander (Sam). Photographic Scenery of South Africa, 1st edition, no place, Sam Alexander, 1880, pictorial lithographic title-page with centra...

* Astronomical Slides. A set of 12 hand-painted panoramic lantern slides and 1 lever slide of astronomy, c. 1900, including 2 slip slides, showing...

* Autochromes. A collection of 13 stereo autochromes and 1 quarter-plate autochrome, early 20th century, subjects include assorted European viewsQ...

* Belgian Congo. Portrait of Ngala Chief with Panther Tooth Necklace, c. 1910, vintage gelatin silver print, mounted on card, 29 x 22.5 cmQTY: (1)...

* Brazil. A group of approximately 50 photographs of Rio de Janeiro and other Brazilian scenes, c. 1920, including 10 larger photographs, 21.5 x 1...

* Brazil. An album of 40 photographs of Morro Velho Gold Mine, Brazil, early 1880s, the majority of photographs relating to the mine including vi...

* Burma. A Burmese Family Group by a Temple, c. 1870, albumen print with good tonal range, 26 x 20.5 cm, mounted on cardQTY: (1) ...[more]

* Burma. A complete album of 48 corner-mounted photographs of Burma, c. 1900, gelatin silver prints, showing views and scenes in Mandalay and rura...

* Burma. A pair of albumen print photographs of temples by Felice Beato, c. 1870s, plus a gelatin silver print of Mandalay by an unidentified phot...

* Cameron (Julia Margaret, 1815-1879). Alice Liddell as St Agnes, October 1872, albumen print, 340 x 239 mm, original mount, titled and inscribed ...

* Cameron (Julia Margaret, 1815-1879). Thomas Carlyle, 1867, printed 1875, carbon print, 308 x 252 mm, contemporary card mount with adhesion marks...

* Canada. Two views of Niagara Falls, c. 1870s, albumen prints, one oval, each approximate 18 x 24 cmQTY: (2) ...[more]

* Cartes de Visite. A group of 6 cartes-de-visite photographs albums, c. 1860s and later, containing over 200 window-mounted cartes de visite and ...

* Cartes de Visite. A group of 8 carte-de-visite portraits of composers and musicians from life, c. 1860s/1880s, albumen prints, with portraits of...

* Cave (H[enry] W.). Miniatures of Ceylon Scenery, from Photographs, published by Cave & Co., Colombo, c. 1890, unpaginated, vignette illustration...

* Central Africa. A group of four assorted male portrait studies, c. 1900/1930, the oldest an albumen print showing two men in front of a hut, Fre...

* Ceylon, Algeria & Ireland. An album containing 80 mounted albumen and some gelatin silver prints, c. 1880-1900, including full-plate albumen pri...

* Ceylon. A group of 5 photographs by Joseph Lawton, 1870s, albumen prints, plus 6 albumen print photographs of scenes and people in Ceylon by Sco...

* China and the Far East. A group of 7 incomplete photograph albums relating to China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaya, Singapore, etc., gelatin silver p...

* China. The Marble Boat, Summer Palace, Peking, c. 1900, gelatin silver print on card with manuscript dated inscription in French at foot, image ...

* China. A group of 23 stereoviews published by Griffith & Griffith, c. 1900, including scenes and views in Hong Kong (15), Shanghai (6) and Pekin...

* China. A pair of unmounted carte-de-visite-size photographs of Chang the Giant and his wife, 1868, 9.5 x 6 cm & 9 x 6 cmQTY: (2) ...[more]

* China. Carved Chinese figure and horse in a Shanghai temple, c. 1870, image 15.5 x 20.5 cm, sheet size 21 x 27 cm, paper mountQTY: (1) ...[more]

* China. Five seated Chinese men gambling, c. 1870s, albumen print, 10.5 x 15 cm, mounted on contemporary paper with pencil inscription 'Gambling'...

* China. Kiukiang [Jiujiang]. River scene with boats and figures on the far shoreline, c. 1890, albumen print, 22 x 18 cm, card mount, with a seco...

* China. Orphan Island off Chinkiang, Upper Yangtze, c. 1860s, albumen print on card, 19.5 x 23 cmQTY: (1) ...[more]

* China. Portrait of a monk by Heinz von Perckhammer (1895-1965), 1930, printed later, photographer's copyright stamp and various agency stamps an...

* China. River view with ships in the background, Tientsin [Tianjin], c. 1870s, albumen print on card mount with printed description pasted to rig...

* China. Study of a Chinese woman and held baby, by Ergy Landau (1896-1967), 1955, vintage gelatin silver print, photographer's copyright stamp an...

* China. Temple of Heaven, Canton, China, c. 1890, albumen print on card, 21.5 x 27.5 cmQTY: (1) ...[more]

* China. Two photographs inside a Chinese tea shop, c. 1920s, gelatin silver prints, 9.5 x 14.5 cmQTY: (1) ...[more]

* Chipping Norton. An assorted group of approximately 250 photographs of Chipping Norton and environs, 20th century, mostly vintage gelatin silver...

* Clergue (Lucien, 1934-2014). Les ombres du Picador, Lunel, 1966, gelatin silver print, printed later, image size 32 x 49 cm, signed in black ink...

* Coster (Howard, 1885-1959). T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935), 13 October 1931, vintage gelatin silver print on textured thin card, image 24.5 x 17 cm, ...

AR * Curtis (Edward Sheriff, 1868-1952). Nimkish Village at Alert Bay, 1914, vintage photogravure on Japanese vellum paper, image size 386 x 294 ...

AR * Curtis (Edward Sheriff, 1868-1952). The Pima Woman, 1907, vintage photogravure on Japanese vellum paper, image size 397 x 297 mm, titled and...

* Daguerreotype. A three-quarter plate hand-tinted daguerreotype of an unidentified family, possibly French, c. 1855, the group comprising nine me...

[Dawson, G.A.R.]. Nilgiri Sporting Reminiscences, by an Old Shikarri, Madras: Higginbotham & Co., 1880, 26 albumen print photographs of hunting tr...

World War One Manufacturing. Decauville Factory, Corbeil, Paris: Draeger Frères, circa 1918, 30 full-page mounted gelatin silver prints, all edges...

* Delius (Peggy, active 1935-1945). A group of 22 photographs of ballet at Sadler's Wells & Covent Garden, c. 1937-45, images 25 x 34 cm and simil...

* Dutch East Indies. Two Malay Women Cooking, c. 1880, albumen print, 21 x 23.5 cmQTY: (1) ...[more]

* Egypt, Syria & Constantinople. An album containing 52 photographic views, c. 1880s, many credited in the negatives to Bonfils, A. Beato and Seba...

* Egypt. An album containing 90 mounted photographs by Arnoux, Zangaki, Bonfils et al., c. 1890s, albumen prints, portraits, scenes and views in P...

* Egypt. An Album containing 30 photographs of Egypt by Sebah and others, c.1880s, albumen prints, including views and scenes, portraits studies, ...

* Egypt. Great Pyramid & The Sphinx, c. 1870, albumen print, 16 x 20.5 cm, together with another albumen print of Children in front of the Pyramid...

* Egypt. Two views with figures and camels outside city walls, 1865s, albumen prints, one signed in the negative by W[ilhelm] Hammerschmidt, image...

* Fashion. A collection of approximately 115 fashion photographs from the archives of Country Life magazine, all c. 1979, gelatin silver prints, m...

Fergusson (James). Tree and Serpent Worship: or illustrations of Mythology and Art in India in the First and Fourth Centuries after Christ, from t...

Frith (Francis, 1822-1898). Sinai and Palestine; Lower Egypt, Thebes and the Pyramids; Upper Egypt and Ethiopia; Egypt, Sinai and Palestine ... Su...

* Franco-Prussian War. An assorted group of photographs and maps, c. 1870s, including 18 mounted albumen prints, many of Franco-Prussian War inter...

* French West Africa. An assorted group of 7 vintage photographs, c. 1895/1950, the earliest showing French settlers with a group of children and ...

[Frith, Francis, 1822-1898]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments ..., London: George Eyre & William Spottiswoode, c. 1867, undat...

* Frith's Series. A group of 27 photographs published by Francis Frith, all c. 1865, albumen prints on individual original mounts, including archi...

* Furne & Tournier. A group of 5 sterereoviews, c. 1860, albumen prints, including 2 from the series Provence et Languedoc (no. 23, Cannes & no. 4...

* Furne & Tournier. A group of 8 stereoviews, c. 1860, albumen prints, including 4 from the series La Suisse Pittoresque (Route du Simplon, Louèch...

* Gay-Couttet (Roland, 1925-2002). Mont Blanc, c. 1960, vintage gelatin silver print, signed by the photographer lower right, 30 x 40 cm, framed a...

* Glamour. A group of 5 albums of glamour and pin-up photographs of female nudes, c. 1960s, gelatin silver prints, neatly pasted or corner-mounted...