£900
India. An album of approx. 300 b/w photographs taken and compiled by a British Army family stationed in the then British Raj, dated 1925-1938, arranged over leaves annotated in manuscript, snapshots of Muttra (i.e. Mathura), Jubbulpore (i.e. Jabalpur), Delhi, Taxila and Quetta [both now Pakistan], illustrating the domestic and ceremonial life of an army officer, with family at home and socialising with friends, leisure scenes of polo, cricket matches, horses and dogs, elephants and camels, sport and camps, 4th Light Battery v. 88th Field Battery football match, as well as military parades, including mechanised armoured divisions, General Sir Roger Wilson KCB (1882-1966), etc., some postcards, contemporary quarter-roan over cloth boards, worn and soiled, perished spine but holding, folio (37.5 x 28cm)
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