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Charles Darwin (1809-1882). Autographed photograph, SIGNED by Darwin to lower margin of albumen print on carte-de-visite mount, 10.5 x 6.5cm. The ...

Lot 217

Darwin, Charles

Darwin, Charles Photographic portrait Woodburytype, showing Darwin in old age, in a heavy coat, facing right, trimmed to image, 10.3 x 6.3cm, wi...

25 Cased Ambrotypes Mainly studio portraits Group of cased ambrotypes in 3 sizes: 7 are 1/4 plate (approximately 11 x 8cm), 15 are 1/6 plate (ap...

Transportation, Scottish postcards Including trams, railways, paddle steamers a steam lorry and a traction engine, 37 postcards Aitkens tar spra...

Attributed to James Good Tunny and Others Album of Scottish Portraits including Members of the Royal Scottish Academy, 1850s Edinburgh, c.1850s....

Ships, shipbuilding and paddle steamers 19th and 20th century, 50 photographs 2 albumen photographs of sailing ships from Aberdeen, the clipper ...

North East Scotland Aboyne Castle, Gladstone family and Royal interest 9 albumen photographs, 16 x 11.5cm, pasted onto 4 cut album pages relatin...

Sir Willian Arrol, Archive Of Forth Road Bridge Construction Photographs and ephemera by Ralston 240 silver gelatin photographs mainly by Ralsto...

Maull and Polyblank Crimean war veteran Drum Major Alexander Kerr, Scottish Fusilier Guards, 1859 Large albumen photograph mounted into an oval ...

Hill and Adamson Three Fisherwomen At Newhaven, 1843 to 1847, salt print Salt print photograph from a calotype negative by David Octavius Hill a...

Album of Interior Photographs, late 19th Century Rosebank, a large house overlooking Perth 26 albumen photographs, mainly interior photographs o...

Lot 180

Scottish Life

Scottish Life Including fisherfolk at Broughty Ferry, hunting, fishing and camping, 20 photographs Early 20th-century silver gelatin photograph ...

Lot 240

Albums

Albums Collection of Victorian photograph and commonplace books Album containing photographs, some signed, of early 20th century performers, inc...

Lot 146

Adamson, John

Adamson, John Chemist Shop and South Street, St. Andrews, c.1842, salt print Salt print photograph from a calotype negative of W. Smith's chemis...

Cartes de visite and cabinet cards, 19th century 6 albums 22 cartes de visite and cabinet card images featuring the Styring family of Huddersfie...

Fishing, whaling and crofting Group of postcards including scenes from Shetland and Skye Fish processing including fish markets, landings, smoki...

Shipbuilding, Aureol Elder Dempster Line Album of 50 photographs by Ralston, Glasgow, 1950 50 loosely mounted large format silver gelatin photos...

CHURCHILL (WINSTON) Portrait photograph by Walter Stoneman, SIGNED BY CHURCHILL ('Winston S. Churchill') on the mount , gelatin silver print, p...

Fascinating c. 1920's black and white photographs by Blain, Glasgow of large rock samples from the river Clyde (and workmen), photographic portrai...

A Selection of Whole Plate Negatives of Groups of People, to include images of touring groups, award ceremonies, formal dinners, school classes, s...

WITHDRAWN - A Collection of mixed antique cycling and other photographs. Postage category C (will be re-entered as 2 separate lots in our next sal...

Thomas Kublin (1924-1966) Portrait of Enid Boulting, 1961 inscribed and dated in ink silver gelatin photograph 26 x 33cm. Provena...

PONTING (HERBERT) 'Grotto in an Iceberg', large green-tinted carbon print, mounted, 2 very light abrasions, 'H.G. Ponting Copyright' blind-stamp...

Album of Scottish Photographs, 1870s Belonging to Sir James Colquhoun 120 albumen photos mounted onto single sides of paper album pages, all tit...

Electricity Generation, Glasgow, c.1917 Album, 31 large photographs including 2 of electric vehicles 28 mounted and 3 loose large format silver ...

Lot 208

York & Son

York & Son 'Photographs of London' [cover-title], c.1900. Folio album, green cloth, front cover lettered ‘York & Son’s Photographs of London' in...

Forth Rail Bridge and Tay Bridge, 19th century 25 photographs taken during and after construction 19 albumen photographs and 1 silver gelatin ph...

Group of cartes de visite, Scottish and Royal interest, 33 photographs Some by Thomas Annan and Thomas Roger Including portrait of man believed ...

Hill and Adamson Scott Monument Construction, Edinburgh, 1843, salt print Salt print photograph from a calotype negative by David Octavius Hill ...

Lot 149

Robertson

Robertson Newburgh, Fife, c.1900, 120 photographs 120 silver gelatin photographs of life in Newburgh, Fife, including street scenes and a tracti...

Lot 214

Annan, Thomas

Annan, Thomas Glasgow Corporation Water Works. Photographic Views of Loch Katrine Glasgow: printed by McLaren & Erskine, 1877. Oblong 4to, 28 al...

Hill and Adamson King Fisher/His Faither's Breeks. Boy At Newhaven, 1843 to 1847, salt print Salt print photograph from a calotype negative by D...

A Carte De Visite Album, containing approx. 64 CDVs,

Studio portraits, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and other subjects Group of cartes de visite, 173 photographs Includes photographers based in Edi...

Lot 160

Curling

Curling Photographs, magic lantern slide and 1930s family photograph album 19th-century photograph of the Forest team who won the Borders Champi...

Scottish Military Including Coldstream Guards, 78th Regiment, 1860s to 1900s 7 cartes de visite, a cabinet card and 6 photographs of several Sco...

Beardy Willy Duff, Gamekeeper and Ghillie to 5th Duke Of Atholl 6 portraits, c.1860s Group of 5 cartes de visite and a larger mounted albumen ph...

Edinburgh From Calton Hill, 1850s Possibly by Ross and Thomson Oval salt print photograph of Edinburgh from Calton Hill, dating to the early 185...

Hill and Adamson Bonaly Towers and Lodge at Bonaly, 1843 to 1847, 2 salt prints 2 unmounted salt print photographs from calotype negatives. One ...

79th Highlanders Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders Staff sergeants, 1864, and named officers, 1870s 2 albumen mounted photographs, 29.5 x 22.5cm a...

Spinning in Skye and Shetland 19th and early 20th century 2 mounted albumen photographs of women using spinning wheels on Skye, by G.W. Wilson, ...

Lot 188

Fishwives

Fishwives Group of 18 postcards 18 postcards of fishwives sorting and selling fish in Aberdeen, Scarborough, Fraserburgh, Great Yarmouth, Peterh...

Washington Wilson, George Tours in Scotland, album of 96 photographs 96 albumen photographs of views around Scotland, all by George Washington W...

VICTORIAN PHOTOCOLLAGE. A young aristocratic woman's photograph album, 1880s, embellished with creative and sometimes whimsical collages of waterc...

PHILLIPS, William Francis. [Seaman, HMS Calypso]. A manuscript journal of a training voyage to the West Indies in 1890 with entries recorded in in...

SHACKLETON-ROWLETT 'QUEST' EXPEDITION, 1921-1922 A fine group of approximately 200 photographs, mostly by A. Macklin, F.H. Wilkins, and other Expe...

MARR ('SCOUT' JAMES) Into the Frozen South by Scout Marr, of the Quest Expedition, FIRST EDITION, 21 half-tone plates, a STUDIO PORTRAIT OF M...

WHALING, SOUTH GEORGIA HAY (ARTHUR EDWARD) and others. A series of approximately 92 views of whaling, and the whaling station at Prince Olav Harbo...

Valentine, James and G.W. Wilson Scottish views Approximately 80 albumen photographs by James Valentine and a small number by G.W. Wilson in 6 a...

Rural life, farming and livestock, c.1900 Angus and Perthshire 2 albums titled ‘E’ and ‘F’, one exclusively of Langlogie Farm by Meigle, Perth a...

Scottish Views, Tours and Scenery, over 245 photographs 19th and 20th century 120 x 19th-century albumen photographs, mostly unmounted, of Scott...

Stevenson, Robert Louis Glass plate negative taken in Samoa Showing Robert Louis Stevenson and Tuimaleali'ifano Fa'aoloi'i Si'ua'ana I, paramoun...

Yachting and Natural History Trip to the Western Isles 19th and 20th century 19th-century yachting album comprising 32 albumen photographs of na...

Hill and Adamson Miss Patricia Morris and others, 3 salt prints, 1843-1847 Salt paper prints from calotype negatives by D.O. Hill and Robert Ada...

Archie Gordon Memorial Album, 1910 Son of 7th Earl Of Aberdeen, Haddo House Private publication in memory of Archie Gordon (1884-1909), son of t...

Pearce, Thomas [attributed to] Sir Charles Forbes of Forbes Castle, September 1857, Invercauld Albumen photograph, 15 x 11cm, mounted on a page ...

Wilson, G.W. and James Valentine Scottish towns and cities, 56 photographs 56 photographs, mostly albumen, largely on card mounts cut from album...

2 glass colour autochromes 1 by Ellis Kelsey Washing Clothes by a River, 16 x 12cm, binding loose in places, and Trees in Sunlight, 11 x 9cm, ti...

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