Bernard J Shapero R are Books

109.[Photographer unknown]. Nilgiris.Views around Coonor, Ooctacamund,Kotagiri and elsewhere.[c.1880]. Seventy albumen prints, average size 185by 255mm., most with good tonal range and in goodcondition, pasted back to back, most with titles inmanuscript, wrap-around folio 300 by 420mm.The Nilgiri hills have a history going back agood many centuries. It was originally triballand and was occupied by the Todas aroundwhat is now the Ooty area, and the by Kotasaround what is now the Kotagiri area. TheBadagas appeared here much later fromthe Mysore Plateau, the unconfirmed datebeing 1550. Although the Nilgiri hills arementioned in the Ramayana of Valmiki(estimated by Western scholars to havebeen recorded in the second centuryB.C.E.), they remained all but undiscoveredby Europeans until 1602. This was when thefirst European set foot into the jungles. Thiscollection is made up of portrait studies(eight in all) and topographical views.ref: 77420 £5,50080 Early Travel Photography 1850 - 1950Bernard J Shapero Rare Books