The Orient - Africa, Middle and Near East, including the Hol...

Hammer

£140

The Orient - Africa, Middle and Near East, including the Holy Land, and China, British Army, an early 20th century soldier's photograph album, compiled by and inscribed: W. Hill, 2nd Bn. Middlesex Regt., Khartoum/Sudan/Egypt, illustrated with annotated b/w photographs and prints of the Sahara Desert, the Sudanese desert around Khartoum, Jerusalem, Cairo (including Ancient Egyptian ruins), the Gold Field's (sic) in India, Madras, China, Wellington Railway, Bazaar, and various depictions of ethnographic and indigenous native everyday life, including Egyptian Types [of Women], Village Girls, Madras Hunt, Dancing Girls, Indian animals, a Tiger Dance, Native Women, A Shop, Jack Hyltons, tribal tableaux, etc., two of the latter leaves are illustrated with military comrades and inscribed: China 1926/Tank Corps & India 1927, contemporary decorative papered boards (upper-cover loose), oblong 4to, (1); India, a pre-1947 album of b/w photographs of the last of the British Raj, illustrating Indians and normal life, colonial ?military personnel, topography and historic sights, etc., contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1), [2]