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ALLI, DAROGHA UBBAS. fl.1870s. The Lucknow Album, containing a series of fifty photographic views of Lucknow, and its environs, together with a large sized plan of the city. Calcutta: Printed by G. H. Rouse, Baptist Mission Press, 1874. 8vo (246 x 156 mm). 44 (of 50) mounted albumen photographs, large colored folding map (760 x 580 mm) in pocket at rear. 20th century red calf gilt, original gilt-titled blue cloth laid down to upper cover. Worming to first few leaves, map separating at creases, foxing. Provenance: Jamsetjee Ness-Rwanji Petit Institute (library stamps); Raj Krishna. FIRST EDITION. RARE COLLECTION OF INDIAN PHOTOGRAPHY, produced in what must have been a small edition given the individually mounted photographs and captions. Complete with large lithographed map and in the original binding. Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature 581.