Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History

Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History

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Hong Kong | collection of CDVs, 1860 with album

Auction Closed

November 12, 04:34 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

HONG KONG, PHOTOGRAPHS

Collection of forty one cartes-de-visite, Hong Kong, 1860s


41 cartes-de-visite (90 x 60mm., or the reverse) on card mounts, including 7 by Hing-Qua John & Co., and one each by Pun-Lun, A. Sachtler, and A.P. Johnson (San Francisco), loose, together with an album for the cartes, some fading and occasional minor spotting, slight wear to album


Most are portraits of Chinese people, together with 2 views and 10 photographs of paintings (treaty ports) and ships.