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COLONEL ROBERT BLACKALL GRAHAM (1838-1918) Photographic Illustrations, with description [sic.] of Mandalay & Upper Burmah Expeditionary Force, 1886-1887 . Birmingham: A Pumphrey, [no date but 1887]. 4° (284 x 215mm). Printed in red and black on thin card throughout: title (verso blank), 1p. letterpress introduction dated 'Mandalay, 1st April, 1887' (verso blank), 'Photo lithographed plan of Mandalay', 59 leaves each with a mounted albumen print photograph (each 100 x 137mm approx.) with letterpress explanatory text beneath, each leaf printed recto only. (Photographs faded, some spotting and light soiling.) Original red cloth, covers with ruled borders in blind, the upper cover titled in gilt, titled in gilt on spine (foot of spine chipped, extremities bumped). Provenance : L.H. Walker (early signature). A FASCINATING RECORD OF BURMA AT THE TIME OF ITS INCORPORATION INTO THE BRITISH EMPIRE, with photographs of the places and the people, as well as a visual record of many of the senior staff involved in the consolidation of the British position in Burma. The western provinces of Burma along the sea coast had come under British control in 1852 after the second Anglo-Burmese war, but, it was not until the expedition of 1885-1887, that the whole country became part of the British Empire. The early stages of this campaign were recorded by Lieutenant-Colonel Willoughby Wallace Hooper in his Burmah. A series of one hundred photographs, illustrating incidents connected with the British Expeditionary Force to that country, from the embarkation at Madras, 1st Nov., 1885, to the capture of King Theebaw , published in London, Bangalore and Calcutta in 1887. Although it is not known if Hooper and Graham liased, it appears almost as if the present work was intended as a continuation of the earlier work. The plates include 29 topographical views (the majority of Rangoon or its environs and including 8 river scenes), 14 ethnographical portraits of the Burmese, 14 portraits of British army personnel. Of particular interest is a photograph of Prince Moung Peng 'a grandson of King Midohn Min' and a print from a negative taken by a court photographer and showing the deposed 'King Theebaw and his wives [Queen Supralat and her sister Supragee]' and found in the palace by the occupying forces.