VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS

China and Hong Kong, 1890s

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS
China and Hong Kong, 1890s
Album containing fifty hand-tinted albumen prints, each approx. 8½ x 10½ in., several numbered and titled in the negatives, the majority titled in ink on mounts, tissue guards, inscribed A. Nicole R.E. Hong Kong 1901 in ink on front blank, red lacquer boards (spine lacking), gilt and mother-of-pearl onlay depicting herons in the water, g.e., oblong 4to.

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Views around Hong Kong, Canton, Shanghai and Peking including views of Hong Kong harbour, street scenes, the race course at Happy Valley, Canton river, studies of pagodas, a view of Foo Chou city from above, images of Chinese torture, 'Chinese taking tiffin', a funeral and a marriage procession.

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