Mennie, Donald
China North and South
£1,197
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Second and Revised Edition. A Series of Vandyck Photogravures illustrating the Picturesque Aspect of Chinese Life and Surroundings. Shanghai: A. S. Watson & Co., c.1920. Oblong 4to, original boards, string-bound, 30 mounted photogravure plates, printed captions to mounts, boards damp-stained;
Kerim, A[bdul]. Camera Studies in Iraq [cover-title]. Baghdad: Hasso, Bros, c.1930. Oblong 4to, original simulated crocodile skin covers, string-bound, 73 photogravures on 50 leaves, printed calligraphic captions;
Shields, John. ‘A Photographic Record of a Trip to Tangier, Xmas 1909’. [And:] ‘Photographic Records of Visits to Seville and Niebla, 1910’. [Probably London: privately printed for or by the photographer, 1910]. 2 works, oblong 8vo, contemporary green crushed morocco gilt by Sinclair of Haymarket, all edges gilt, calligraphic manuscript title-page to each work, 65 and 67 photogravures respectively, printed direct on card leaves, and including street scenes, views, people, architectural studies, pencilled captions in Seville album, Tangier album front cover detached (4)
Provenance
The Estate of Dorothy Bohm.