INDONESIA AND MALAYSIA - PHOTOGRAPHY Album of views in Indonesia, including images of the temple buildings, sculpture and details at Borobudur, Java by Kassian Céphas, 18 albumen prints (one captioned 'Baraboedoer 1872' in the image) by Céphas (approximately 165 x 225mm.), approximately 35 smaller albumen or gelatin silver prints including 2 of groups of local inhabitants, Colonial life (some Java, some South Africa), family images, half morocco, gilt lettered 'W.P.B.' [see footnote] on upper cover, oblong 4to, [1890s]--Album of views in Malaysia, relating to a trip undertaken by Sir Charles Mitchell, Governor of the Straits Settlement in 1894, 24 albumen prints, mounted one per page with captions (some identifying sitters), images approximately 95 x 145mm., half calf, lacks spine, worn, oblong 8vo, [1894]--Two albums of views, local groups and Colonial life in South Africa, one with 36 silver gelatin prints (including 6 tribal groups, 'Jack and his Lion', 'Camp at Nevis', all approximately 110 x 150mm.); the other approximately 50 images, mostly private including family groups, on ship, some Matabeland, images various sizes, cloth and half morocco, one defective, oblong 8vo, [1890s]; and 3 others, including J.H.M. Robson, People of a Native State, Singapore, 1894 (7) Footnotes: Unusual photography albums relating to journeys to Java and Singapore in the 1890s, compiled by William Pomfret Burra, Assistant Private Secretary to Sir Charles Mitchell, Governor of the Straits Settlement. The Indonesia album includes a series of eighteen images of the Buddhist temples at Borobudur by Kassian Céphas, recognised as the first indigenous Indonesian photographer. The album of images of Malaysia, record stages from a two week journey undertaken in 1894 by Mitchell and his entourage. This journey was written up by Major McCallum as 'A Trip Across the Peninsula with H.E. the Governor' in a series of articles printed in the Singapore Free Press (a photocopy sold with the lot). Includes the travelling party at Tras (with Burra posing topless 'as a half tame Sakai chief'), groups with the Imam Prang and son, the mosque at Kuala Lipis, Kampong Budu (4, houses and locals), 'Sakais K. Lipis', 'Si Raman' stockade - Rebellion 1894', 'Chinese Trading Boat - Pahang River', and Johor (9, include portrait of Abu Bakar, Sultan of Johor, the Chinese theatre, the Sultan's army on parade). The other albums relate to Burra's time stationed in South Africa. Provenance: William Pomfret Burra (1874-1919), initials 'W.P.B.' on upper cover of Java album, and identified in group photograph of the Malaysian album. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com