Name: Auction: South-East Asia Five personal photograph albums, c.1937-8
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 1000 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale number: 694 Our July Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps &amp; Photographs sale was led by an important document signed by Sir Walter Raleigh, a very early edition of John Cleland's Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure (c.1755), a work better known to posterity as Fanny Hill, and a rare first edition of John Law’s Money and Trade Considered (1705). Additional highlights featuring in the sale included a first edition, first impression, paperback issue of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997), a set of James Sowerby's The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain (1812-29) from the library of Andrew Carnegie, and an imposing 18th century atlas by Thomas Kitchin.

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containing some 550 snapshot-style gelatin silver print photographs, depicting temples, street scenes, river views, locals and local life including trades and agriculture (posed and unposed), and the photographer and his milieu, in Java (Jakarta, Bandoeng/Bandung), Bali (Kintamani, Sibetan, Denpasar, Sukawati, etc.), Singapore, (including Pulau Ubin), Malaya/Malaysia (Johore, Kuala Lumpur, Malacca, Seramban, etc.), and elsewhere, mainly 11 x 8cm or inverse (several larger), corner-mounted rectos and versos on black card album leaves, mounted typescript captions throughout, together with 63 related photographs loose in paper wallet (pencilled captions versos) (5)

Five personal photograph albums, c.1937-8

South-East Asia

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South-East Asia

Five personal photograph albums, c.1937-8

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