May 19, 2015 - Sale 2384

Sale 2384 - Lot 334

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(FIJI--EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS.) An album containing 54 photographs, primarily around Valeci and Savu Savu, Fiji, 52 of which mounted on thick card. Oblong 4to, 240x310 mm, contemporary 1/4 black roan, contents loose in binding; images generally in good order, crisp with good contrast, a few of the mounts foxed. [Fiji, circa 1900]

Additional Details

Subjects include: sugar cane plantations; native Fijians; ceremonies; colonists and their leisure activities; native and colonial buildings; landscapes.