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TIBET and HIMALAYAS An album of 44 topographical views and portraits, including a three-part panorama of Nanga Parbat, compiled by an unidentified British Shikari, [1908-1910]; together with 3 related photographs on mounts, and a small quantity of ephemera (13) image 1
TIBET and HIMALAYAS An album of 44 topographical views and portraits, including a three-part panorama of Nanga Parbat, compiled by an unidentified British Shikari, [1908-1910]; together with 3 related photographs on mounts, and a small quantity of ephemera (13) image 2
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TIBET and HIMALAYAS
An album of 44 topographical views and portraits, including a three-part panorama of Nanga Parbat, compiled by an unidentified British Shikari

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4 December 2013, 11:00 GMT
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TIBET and HIMALAYAS

An album of 44 topographical views and portraits, including a three-part panorama of Nanga Parbat, compiled by an unidentified British Shikari, gelatin silver prints, captioned in manuscript on the mounts, mounted one per page and back to back, images 120 x 90mm., two type written diary accounts, one with well executed manuscript map, affixed to last two album leaves, half morocco, spine defective, small oblong folio (190 x 240mm.), [1908-1910]; together with 3 related photographs on mounts, and a small quantity of ephemera (13)

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Including: 'Nunga Parbat looking NNW;' a view of Nanga Parbat from the Kamri Pass; 'Dunga on Wular Lake;' 'Burzil Pass (Summer);' 'The Hattu-Pir;' the compiler of the album with his doy, Peggy, and two trophies in a tent; 'Bivouak in Dashkat;' 'Camp under Nanga Parbat;' 'Tarsing Glacier;' 'A Kashmir Camp (Gorai);' 'Monastery & Village, Lamayuru;' 'Indus at Khaltse;' 'Leh;' 'Ladakhis' (illustrated); a mother and her children outside 'Changpa tent, Rupshu;' 'Budhist [sic] rock carving;' 'A Lhamaserai;' 'Zohi-La' (looking east and west) (2), and the Sind valley.

Several photographs show our Shikari posing with various trophies, including Ibex, Astor Markhor, Nyan, Goa and Burhel. In the short diaries, which feature his terrier, Peggy, who accompanied him on this trip, he states: 'My bag was an Ammon, Goa, three Burhel, with about thirty head of small game shot with a miniature rifle, incuding two Bar headed geese (shot on the edge of the Tso Char (lake)), Hare, partridge and marmot.'

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Heading should read "Ladakh and Himalayas" NOT "Tibet and Himalayas"

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