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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(SOUTH PACIFIC; ASIA) Wonderful album containing 65 photographs of the South Pacific and Asia including the Sandwich Islands, Japan, Philippines, Hong Kong, China, Macao, Singapore, Penang, Ceylon, Colombo, and Kandy, comprising portraits of Hawaiian surfers, wonderful hand-colored Japanese photo montages, an incredible group of ethnographic photographs from the Philippines, street scenes and river scenes in Canton and Hong Kong with images of prisoners in cangues and other forms of stocks, platinum prints of Ceylon, Colombo, and Kandy, and much more. Albumen, silver, platinum, printing-out paper prints, and postcards, 31/2x5 to 81/2x11 inches (8.9x12.7 to 21.6x27.9 cm.), with handwritten captions and lofty quotations, in ink, on mounts recto and verso. Oblong folio, red morocco, light edge wear. 1880s-90s
