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拍品 123
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Photobook, Shanghai--Kelley & Walsh (publishers)

估價
500 - 700 GBP
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描述

  • Views of Shanghai during the Great Snowfall of 1863 (Jubilee Year). Shanghai: Kelley & Walsh, [1893]
  • Paper
FIRST EDITION, oblong folio (285 x 360mm.), three-page preface, 12 collotypes with captioned tissue-guards, original sewn stiff pictorial wrappers, printed decoration to inside covers lightly offset onto title and final blank, slightly rubbed

出版

Western Travellers in China 93

拍品資料及來源

RARE. In January 1893 Shanghai recorded its lowest temperature of 10 degrees below zero, providing the subject for these twelve photographs of uncommon snow-covered streets and scenes.