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An excellent Victorian Grand Tour travel album composed of 42 albumen photographs capturing the sights through Southern England Scotland Isle of Wight Arran and then onto New Zealand and Fiji including views of Auckland Harbour Ragitoto from Remuera Auckland Hospital Fijian street scenes as well as an unidentified wedding party and mine crew.

1880 · 63888 — N.P.: N.P. ca. 1880. Thick oblong 4to 12.5 x 9.75 x 2 in. 50 pp unpaginated. on thick paper stock. With 42 albumen photographs sized from 4 x 6 in. to 9 x 11.5 in. many w/ photographer’s imprint or captions w/in the negative at lower fore-edge all carefully mounted a few w/ annotated captions in ink MS below. Recent full black calf over original beveled boards white silk moire endpapers stationer’s label for Woolfield & Co. Glasgow on rear pastedown at corner a.e.g. occasional lifting a couple images w/ minor over-exposure occasional slight closed tears still a VG exemplar. This splendid Victorian Grand Tour album preserves 42 albumen photographs some a coterie of the best souvenir landscape and portrait photographers at the end of the 19th-Century including Elizabeth Pulman James Valentine G.W. Wilson and Samuel Poulton Poulton’s Series. The album opens with a photo of the Osbourne House which was the former royal residence on the Isle of Wight constructed between 1845-1851 for Queen Victoria and Prince Philip; views Carlsbrooke Castle St. Thomas Church in Portsmouth St. Boniface Old Church rebuilt in the 11th Century and the Luccombe Chine scenic attraction south of the Village of Luccombe and the Shanklin Shine - oldest tourist attraction on Wight. Other photos include the South Parade Pier built originally 1875-1878 and designed by G. Rale as passenger ferry terminal The Pier Southsea Balmoral Castle from the river Balmoral from the NW two views of Inverness the Waterfall in Glen Ross; the Union Chain Bridge spanning the River Tweed; and the HMS St. Vincent 120-gun warship launched in 1815 lying at anchor in Portsmouth.The unidentified well-to-do family appear to have traveled to New Zealand around 1880 stopped over at Madeira with very large unidentified photograph featuring a cart & donkey with giant palm trees and subsequently sailed onto Fiji. Two of the albumen images here capture a Fijian Village scene as well as street scene in Siwa Fiji. Photos by Valentine include those of Auckland Harbour and Ragitoto from Remuera New Zealand as well as Lower Queen Street Scene and Lake Takapuna looking South. Interior and exterior shots of the Auckland Hospital are included with one demarcated as “Pulman Photo 153†the Auckland Hospital on the hill Bowling Club in the foreground and others. Elizabeth PUlman 1836-1900 is regarded as the first professional woman photographer in New Zealand who took over her husband George Pulman’s business and darkroom following his death in 1871. Of additional interest is the large albumen photograph of an mixed-race photo of a mining crew featuring South Asian along with Euro-caucasian counterparts standing beneath the towering structure behind. Two additional harbour photos are mounted as well as two additional images of a very well-dressed wedding party with bride and bridal party carefully posed. N.P., hardcover