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Lot 302
NEPAL – SHIKARI
[HERZOG & HIGGINS] An album of 120 images taken on Lord Curzon's shooting tour
4 October 2011, 10:30 BST
Knightsbridge

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NEPAL – SHIKARI

[HERZOG & HIGGINS] An album of 120 images taken on Lord Curzon's shooting tour, gelatin silver prints, images numbered in manuscript on the mounts, mounted up to four per page and back to back, typically 200 x 285mm. or smaller, some mounts brittle and occasionally wormed, contemporary green half morocco, rebacked, rubbed, "H.E. the Viceroy's Shooting Tour. Nepal, Terai, April 1901. Herzog and Higgins." in gilt on upper cover, oblong folio (360 x 490mm.), Tarai, April 1901

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Including: a portrait of the Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, Maharaja of Nepal, 1901-1929; Lord Curzon with Nepalese nobility; several camps; trophies, including tigers, cheetah and rhino and numerous views of British hunters and mahouts atop elephants.

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