Name: Auction: Hong Kong, China, Japan, Algiers, Suez Canal, Singapore, India Album of 25 albumen print photographs, c. 1870
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 1512 GBP
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Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs 

Sale number: 725 Our Wednesday 08 February 2023 auction of Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps &amp; Photographs include a superb copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer, the masterpiece of the private press movement, a unique association copy of the Cranwell edition of T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a first-edition set of The Lord of the Rings complete with the dust jackets, a remarkable naval document signed by Lord Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton, a dedicated section of books and manuscripts relating to India and South Asia including autograph letters by Mahatma Gandhi, and more.

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pasted onto both sides of card leaves, including 4 prints of Algiers, a view of Port Said, 4 views of the Suez Canal by Langaki, a Turkish lady by Langaki, 2 views of Singapore, 3 views of Hong Kong, 2 views of Foochow, 4 views of Shanghai, 2 smaller images of Chinese girls in costume, 3 smaller views of ships in Nagasaki Harbour, 2 views of Cochin [including scene of group working cocoa nut fibre], 21.5 x 27cm wide at largest, 14 x 9.5cm at smallest, heavy foxing to mounts, varying amounts of fading to images, contemporary black morocco album, worn, lacking backstrip

Hong Kong, China, Japan, Algiers, Suez Canal, Singapore, India

Album of 25 albumen print photographs, c. 1870

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