拍品 133
  • 133

Photographs

估價
800 - 1,200 GBP
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描述

  • Two albums of street scenes, buildings and views, in and around Peking (Beijing). [c.1920s]
  • paper
Album (305 x 237mm.), 86 silver print photographs (12: average 147 x 190mm., 74: 90 x 120mm., or the reverse), mounted on thick paper (one on upper cover), recto and verso, concertina format, thick card covers, upper cover with photograph and titled "Peking" in Chinese, housed in a contemporary blue cloth box, box worn

Box of 24 photographs (120 x 170mm., or the reverse), each on a separate card mount (178 x 245mm.), housed in a modern embroidered folding silk box, minor surface wear to one image

出版

Western Travellers in China 111 and 112

Condition

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