Afghanistan.- Holmes (Randolph Bezant) Album of Photographs of the Third Anglo-Afghanistan War, 25 vintage silver print photographs on 28 sheets, c.236x292 mm., each mounted on thick card leaves, most signed and/or numbered in the negative, slight fading to edges of one or two photographs, contemporary half roan, lacking backstrip but holding firm, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, oblong folio, 1919.

⁂ Randolph Bezzant Holmes (1888-1973) travelled with the British Colonial Army acting as an official photographer during the Third Anglo-Afghan War. This album includes images of military encampments, tribespeople and general landscape images taken whilst he travelled through the North-West Frontier of the British lines.