comprising: oblong folio album (265 x 360mm), 131 photographs, some full and half-page albumen prints, and some smaller snapshots, various processes, mounted recto and verso, compiled by C.D. Lester, 17th Bombay Infantry: ‘It contains photos of numerous places where its regiment has been stationed; groups of people whom the owner has met; Shikar scenes in that delightful land of Cutch, and elsewhere […]’, (inscription on preliminary free endpaper), the photographs captioned in ink by the compiler, showing regimental groups, hunting expeditions, portraits of Cutch dancing girls, a Khan and his entourage, officers and native officers in Cutch, wild boar hunting with a prince, Baluchistan, 4 large views of Quetta (1900), Poona, North Kanara, and elsewhere, circa 1892-1900, dark green half roan (some mounts detached, spine worn and crudely repaired, rubbed); Second Afghan War (1878-1880), Bartram, George William (artist, and others), volume of fifteen photozincographic plates of pen and ink drawings by Lt George William Bartram and others showing scenes in Afghanistan 1877-1879 (Calcutta: Surveyor General’s Office, 1878-1879), some folding, with an official manuscript document (in Nepali/ Devanagari script) on native paper bearing the official stamped seal of Maharaja Ranodip Singh Rana of Nepal (ruled 1877-1885) and with an inscription in English “For Major Howitt”, window-mounted at the front, oblong folio (290 x 440mm), brown half calf (some mounts detached, binding heavily rubbed); oblong folio (270 x 360mm), 96 photographs, including 42 full-page and 54 half-page or small snapshot photographs, mounted recto and verso, some captioned in ink on the mount, including military groups in Kohat, ‘Nowshera’, native and British officers, scenes of sports and recreation (golf, hunting, polo and theatrical performances), circa 1904-1908, black half roan (some mounts detached and chipped, binding worn); quarto album (270 x 180mm), 116 snapshot photographs, corner-mounted on album pages, recto and verso, some with typed captions pasted on the mount, of views in Amritsar, Peshawar, ‘Afghan delegates at Dakka’, plus a few loosely inserted, circa 1917-1918, dark green cloth (slightly worn), signature of H.H. V Phelps mounted on upper pastedown with the date 26 April 1917; oblong quarto album (175 x 215mm), 58 snapshot photographs, and one photograph postcard (of Jamrud Fort) mounted on card, recto and verso, including Kabul river, military camps, tracked armoured vehicles, local groups, circa 1940s, blue cord-bound cloth boards (slightly worn)l and oblong folio album (270 x 330mm), approximately 240 small snapshot photographs, mostly family photographs, and some views, taken in Karachi (1940), Rawalpindi (1939-49), Nowshera (1939), Fort Lockhart (1941), and elsewhere, black cloth (leaves detached, binding slightly worn) (6)