Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) - Jean-Pascal Sébah (1823-1886) India, 1878-1881. Travel album by Maurice-Henri Blanchard de Farges. Cairo. Pyramids of Giza. Sphinx. Ceylon. Point de Galle. Pondicherry. Calcutta. The Meïdan. French Consulate. Viceroy's Palace. Types. Water carriers. Cloth merchants. Musician. Eden Gardens pagoda. Poultry merchants. Muslim butcher. Diamond Harbour. Ox cart. Viceroy's elephants in gala harness. Darjeeling. The great Himalayan range. Benares (Varanasi), the bank of the Ganges. The Vishnu pagoda. The funeral ghat. Lucknow. Former British residence. Kanpur. Agra. The Fort. Taj Mahal. Fatehpur-Sikri. Muttra. Bindraban. Maharaja's College. Wind Palace. Goualior. Delhi. Bayadere dance. Street dancers and musicians. Oblong folio album, bound in green percaline, titled in gilded letters on the first cover, composed of 110 albumen prints, mounted on cardboard. Handwritten annotations and signature on title page "Souvenirs d'un séjour de deux ans et demi et de diverses excursions dans l'Inde, 1878-81 - Blanchard de Farges". Some photographers' captions and credits on negatives and mounts. Print sizes: 11.5 x 6.5 to 23 x 30 cm