Lot 416
Mennie, Donald
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2013 at 10:00 GMT
Description
The grandeur of the gorges. Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1926. First edition, limited to 1000 copies, 4to, 50 photographic plates (12 coloured), pictorial silk, some occasional spotting, mainly to endpapers, gift inscription on first free-endpaper, cloth a little soiled and faded
Footnote
Note: Donald Mennie was born in Scotland in 1875/6 and grew up in Golspie, Sutherlandshire, before emigrating to China in around 1899. Although his photographs tend to show a very romanticised vision of China, The Grandeur of the Gorges depicts scenes along the Yangtze River which led to Mennie being proposed as a member of the Royal Geographic Society. Mennie died in the early 1940s and his name is found listed in the records of British internees at Lunghwa internment camp, Shanghai.