Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History

Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History

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China | collection of 185 photographs, c.1918-20

Auction Closed

November 12, 04:34 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Lot Details

Description

CHINA

Collection of 185 photographs, c.1918-20


185 silver prints (mostly 75 x 103mm., or the reverse, a few smaller) 26 with the purple ink stamp of Mactavish & Co. Ltd. of Shanghai on the reverse, most with pencil or ink captions on the reverse, unmounted, preserved in modern sleeves in an archival box, photographs slightly bowed,


A GOOD COLLECTION OF VIEWS AND PORTRAITS, taken in Hangchow (Hangzhou), Peking (Beijing), Nanking (Nanjing), Shanghai, Tientsin (Tianjin), and Soochow (Suzhou).