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JOHN THOMSON

'Views on the North River', 1870

With fourteen albumen prints, the majority approx. 7 x 9 in., each with letterpress title on mount and descriptive cover sheet, printed title page and introduction, contemporary cloth-backed boards with printed titles (disbound), oblong lge. 4to., Hong Kong: Noronha & Sons.
Literature
White, John Thomson Life and Photographs, pp. 19, 32, 197 and pl. 77.

Lot Essay

The first of Thomson's photographically illustrated books on China and a rare volume of which few copies are known to have survived. The above volume is complete as issued although it differs in content from that listed in White.

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