C. SCOWEN, SKEEN & CO. and others

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C. SCOWEN, SKEEN & CO. and others

'Ceylon. China', 1890s

Album containing 116 albumen prints, 5 5/8 x 3½in., to 9¼ x 11½in., seventeen with C. Scowen and three with Skeen & Co. in the negative, captions in pencil on mounts, attached paper label with titles in ink on front free page, half morocco, titled in gilt on upper cover, ruled in gilt, lge. oblong 4to.; with eight loose photographs.

Lot Essay

Including village scenes of Kandy and Colombo, Mount Lavinia, flower and tree studies, tea factories, fruit shops, portraits of Singalesse girls, nobles, Bhuddist Priests, Hindu Priests, Snake charmers, Devil dancers, an Afghan in Ceylon, a Bombay man, Coreans, the Govenor of Hong Kong, views of Hong Kong and Canton.

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