China, 535 photographs, c. 1919-41
£3,500
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 11 October 2017 at 11:00 BST
Description
Album of photographs, the vast majority of China and captioned, of Peking, Summer Palace, canal, gardens, moat, Imperial Ancestral Temple, Pei Hai from the West, T'Ang Shan & Hei-Lung T'An, 1922, Shih-Ching-Shan, Dagoba, Iron Cow, Goddess Kwan-Yin, Peking 1940 P'ai Lou, Wang-Fu-Chin Ta Chieh, funeral of Feng-Kuo-Chang, Funeral of Prince Pu Lun, Pei-Hai in Winter, General Chang-Tso-Lin retreats from Peking and Chian-Kai-Shek's troops enter 1928, Shansi troops entering Peking, Celebrations of Nanking Government taking over Peking, Peking, skating on Pei Hai, aeroplanes, Yellow Temple Peking, Scenes at the Liu-Li-Ch'Ang Fair at New Year 1941, Masked Dancers at Devil's Dance, Lama Temple, Chinese Games Peking, The Princess Tomb near Peking, Peking, Coal Hill, Peking Club & Skating Rink, Europeans in Peking 1937-40, Peking Golf Club Pa-Pao-Shan Course 1939, Skating on the Pei-Hai, Shan-Hai-Kuan, the West Gate, the North Gate, the Great Wall, house at 32 Ta Juan Fu Hut'Ung 1921, British Embassy Peking 1941-47, Wang-P'ing-Hsien and Liu-Kou-Chiao - bridge, gates & approach, Western Hills - T'ien-T'ai-Shan, Pagoda at Pa-Li-Chuang, Nian-Niagn-Miao Temple, Lung-Men-Ssu, Chien T'ai Ssu, Miao-Feng-Shan 1922, Pei-Hai and Dragon Screen, Western Hills - on the way to Miao-Feng-Shan 1932, The Citroen Haardt Trans-Asiatic Expedition, arrive Shih-Chih-Men, Peking 1932, Seann Expedition to Jehol - up Nankou Pass by six wheeler 1930, Bridge at Mi-Yun-Hsien, River before Ku-Pei-Kou, Gate at Mi-Yun-Hsien, Chin-Shih-Ling Pass, Ku-Pei-K'ou, The Potola Jehol, palace grounds, General T'Ang-Yu-Lin Governor of Jehol Province, Officers of Jehol Army 1930, To Shih-Chia-Chuang by Road with Major Lovat-Fraser 1929, Nank'ou Pass & Great Wall of China October 1919, Great Wall, Ming Tombs, P'ai Lou, temples and fortress at Shih-Ching-Shan, Shan-Hai-Kuan views on the Shih-Ho, |Grotto temple, Europeans and landscape at Shan-Hai-Kuan, ruins of Yen-Ming-Yuen, Peking, destroyed by Anglo-French troops 1860, River Temple, To Chai-T'ang with A.O. Buckingham 1919, Ch'ing -Shui-Ho, , Yung-T'ing Ho, Fo-Tzu-Ling, Pei-T'ai Ho 1938, River Temple Shan-Hai-Kuan, Tower & Ocean Palace Peking, Camels bringing Coal to Peking, 24 photographs of the Phillipines, 16 photographs of Japan, 7 loose photographs of Ming tombs, 9 loose photographs of ornate antique Chinese furniture, photographs from 5 x 5cm. to 13cm x 22cm., album size