Apr 18, 2013 - Sale 2311

Sale 2311 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(CAMBODIA, THAILAND, and VIETNAM)
Far East album containing 49 rare photographs of Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam, with a view of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, miscellaneous portraits of monks, royal figures, children, statuary, plus harbor views, street scenes, and rural views. Comprising 16 of Cambodian people and places, mainly in Phnom Penh, 3 of Thailand (including a royal figure), and one apparently of Saigon; many with 3 or more pictures per page. Albumen prints, sizes ranging from 3 3/4x2 to 7x11 inches (9.5x5.1 to 7x27.9 cm.), with "Henri Viernot, Saigon, 1884," on the front pastedown and 18 with his florid notations, in ink, on mount recto. Oblong small folio, gilt-lettered boards, loss on backstrip, edgewear. 1876-1884

Additional Details

From the Estate of Fong Chow.