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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(CHINA) Album containing 39 photographs, comprising 26 mounted prints of Hong Kong, with bustling street scenes of Queens Road, Wellington Street, the beautiful Glenealy gardens, the tramway, picturesque views of the harbor, plus an assortment of 13 small-format portraits and landcapes laid in. Albumen and cyanotype (one) prints, sizes ranging from 5 1/2x3 3/4 to 8x10 3/4 inches (14x9.5 cm. to 20.3x27.3 cm.), the mounted photographs with a handwritten caption below the image area; with an index card containing Fong Chow's handwritten penciled notations. Oblong 4to, 1/4 morocco, spine defective. 1881
with--Album containing 23 photographs, comprising 14 cabinet card portraits relating to The International Health Exhibition (1884), by the London Stereoscopic Company, and 7 cartes-de-visite portraits by Chinese photographers, including 2 by Ye-Chong (Shanghai); with the photographers' imprints on mounts recto and/or verso. 4to, morocco; brass clasp; all edges gilt. 1884.
