Photographs of the Indian Tour of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, January to March 1893

by India, Eduard Hodek, photographers Lala Deen Dayal

$80,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

193 original albumen prints, ranging in size from 180mm x 260mm to 239mm x 290mm, mounted on card, most captioned in ink in English in a fin-de-siècle Vienna hand; approx. 60 with small printed captions mounted to boards; 8 photographs untitled. 2 vols. Oblong 4to. Housed in two contemporary morocco backed cases stamped in gilt “Indien” on spine and upper covers, with third box to match. Some occasional bowing of boards, photographs fine and well preserved with exception of a stock image

• Binding: Leather

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