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réf. AQ22589 — s.i.: s.n. s.d. 9 leaves. Contemporary Kodak limited brown cloth album. Extremities lightly rubbed and marked. Ticket of Middlesbrough based chemists Middleton & Co. to FEP. With 24 black and white photographs two pasted to FEP the remainder loosely inserted. Contemporary manuscript notes to verso of 12 photographs. One photograph naively repaired with clear tape. A turn of the century photograph album containing images of a hunting expedition to Taob Himachel Pradesh Western Himalayas India. The unidentified white hunter - visible in several of the images - mentions in his succinct captions his 'coolies' his shikari hunting guide and the huts and bridges built by the expedition. Notably three of the photographs depict the hunter displaying bear skins and in another a member of his 'staff' exhibits an ibex head. . Small quarto. [s.n.], [s.d.] hardcover