AUSTRALIA - NEW SOUTH WALES CAIRE (NICHOLAS J., photographer) Views of New South Wales, 50 albumen print views by N.J. Caire, mounted one per page on album sheets, each with printed descriptive label (numbered 1-50) pasted on verso, stamped in margin 'Copyright Registered', tissue guards, images 130 x 190mm., original morocco gilt, the upper cover elaborately tooled with central title 'Photographs. New South Wales. Australia', g.e., neatly rebacked to match, oblong 4to (230 x 300mm.), Melbourne and Sydney, Anglo-Australian Photo Company, [c.1880-1890] Footnotes: Finely presented views of New South Wales by N.J. Caire (1837-1918), who moved from his homeland of Guernsey to Australia in 1858. Having established a successful studio in Melbourne he later became principal photographer with the Anglo-Australasian Photo Company, specialising in landscape photography. 'He had an imagination and feeling, an artist's sense of beauty, and such a deep and abiding love of this bush of ours, that it had some special significance to him, which was unknown to... any of his contemporaries' (John Cato, The Story of the Camera in Australia, 1957). This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing