Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History
Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History
Auction Closed
November 12, 04:34 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
Lot Details
Description
CHINA
Collection of 185 photographs, c.1918-20
185 silver prints (mostly 75 x 103mm., or the reverse, a few smaller) 26 with the purple ink stamp of Mactavish & Co. Ltd. of Shanghai on the reverse, most with pencil or ink captions on the reverse, unmounted, preserved in modern sleeves in an archival box, photographs slightly bowed,
A GOOD COLLECTION OF VIEWS AND PORTRAITS, taken in Hangchow (Hangzhou), Peking (Beijing), Nanking (Nanjing), Shanghai, Tientsin (Tianjin), and Soochow (Suzhou).