Dec 07, 2006 - Sale 2097

Sale 2097 - Lot 347

Price Realized: $ 9,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(CHINA)
Album containing 50 mounted photographs of China, including landscapes and cityscapes of Hong Kong, and a few colorful portraits of handsomely attired mandarins, and native peoples. Albumen prints, approximately 5x7 1/4 to 8 1/2x10 1/2 inches (12.7x18.4 to 21.6x26.7 cm.) and the reverse, with one fold-out panorama (7 1/4x18 inches), all have handwritten captions, in pencil, below the image; with the original protective tissue guards and a printed table of contents; mounted on recto only. Oblong 4to, leather, rubbed, lacks backstrip. Circa 1875