China, 230 Photographs, 1910-1917
£5,000
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 11 October 2017 at 11:00 BST
Description
Album of Photographs, the vast majority captioned and dated 1910-1917, depicting Shanghai, Yangtze River, life outside Shanghai, Hong Kong, River Canton, Canal between Shameen & City Canton, Canton, 5 Story pagoda & graveyard outside walls Canton, Inside Walls Canton, 5 story Pagoda & graveyard outside Walls Canton, Cheefo, Wei-hai-Wei, Pei-ho River old Taku Forts, Junks on the Pei-ho, Pei-ho River, Changli station, Pei-tai-ho (x 3), Chien-Meng gate Peking, Chien-Men, On the Wall Peking, Shelter for man guarding crops, Kiaolang & Soya crop near Peking, Bell Tower Peking, Race Club Peking, Yew Trees, Temple of Heaven Peking, Temple of Heaven Peking, On Avenue Temple of Heaven, Gate-Way Altar of Heaven (x 2), Pagoda at Yu-Chuan-Shan near Peking, Terracotta Pagoda & Hills East of Peking, Hills West Of Yu Chuan-Pu, Pagoda & Indian Monument, Camel-back Bridge in Gardens Ya Choan-Shan, Temples & Lake in Summer Palace, Court-yard in Lama Temple Peking, Main Temple Summer Palace, Terrace and Pavilion Summer Palace, Pond Summer Palace, Marble Bridge Summer Palace, Bridge Summer Palace, Looking up beginning of Pass Kalgar, Foot of Pass Carts & Bullocks, Great wall on hills, Camels waiting to be loaded at Foot of Pass, Looking round lower end of Pass, Riverbed forms Road; Ascending Nantow Pass, Messrs. Brisker, Hawkshaw & Horsely - Lama Temple in Background, City Gate Outer wall of Cuina, View from train near Kalgar, 12 uncaptioned photographs, Men-Tou-Kou, coal mine near Peking (x5), Managers's House, Men-Tou-Sou, Ching-Wang-Tao, creek & end of lagoon, Shan-Hai-Kwan hills in distance, Junk, Fishing boats, bluff from harbour, Chinwantao, Making Rain-Joss at beach (x 3), Old walled town on way to Hot Springs, Up valley above Hot springs, Great Wall of China Shan-Hai-Twam, River in hills Shan-Hai-swan, Shan Tsu in distance, Bund with Dredger Tientisn, Steamer going down Tientsin, River near Russian Ferry Tientsin, Pontoon Bridge to Russian concession, Peizus waiting on Tee to take Passengers down River, Gardens, Tientsin Club, Tienstin Station, Russian Park Tientsin, Golf course Tientsin (x3), crossing to course course over Pei-ho, Fire at Liddell Bros Go-down (x4), British soldiers leaving Tientsin for Tsingtau, International Manoeuvres Tientsin (Spring 1914) showing Russian, British, French, Japanese, German troops, Icebreaker at Tientsin, Home of Mr N.J. Collins Peking, River near Canton, Inside Forbidden City Peking, Tai-Ho-Tien Forbidden City, Grotto temple near Shan-hai-Kwan (x 4), 13 photographs of Japan, Dam in course of Construction Li- Shu-Shcen (x 12), photograph of Regent Emperor 12th July 1917, ?Manchu troops in Peking, Funeral of Yuan Shih-Kai 1916 (x5), Northern Troops outside Tung Hua, Chang Siens soldiers (x 2), a flooded Chinese city (x 6), photographs of a house interior, Temples and city walls, 8 of Russia, average size 9 x 12cm., album size 25cm x 30cm., album lacking spine