£1,386
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 725
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
The Grandeur of the Gorges. Fifty Photographic Studies, with Descriptive Notes, of China's Great Waterway, the Yangtze Kiang, including Twelve-Hand-Coloured Prints. From Photographs by Donald Mennie. Shanghai: A. S. Watson & Company, 1926. First edition, one of 1,000 copies only, 4to, original embroidered silk, 50 tipped-in photographic plates (12 hand-coloured; several printed in a blue or sepia tint), rear cover partially mottled and faded