Live auction - Lot 962
[China]
Vues du Honan. Publiées par le chemin de fer Lung-Hai. Premier volume-janvier 1920.
Hammer price: €
400
€ 500 / 600
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Lot description
53 collotypes, 13,9 x 19 cm, on thick paper with captioned tissue guards in French and Chinese (some pp. loose).
Kept in an obl. 4to string bound album, silk covered boards with gilt title, a.e.g.
A splendid album of the Lung-hai railway with images of sacred and ancient sites (Buddhist monasteries, temples, stupas, statues, tombs) as well as the natural environment (mountain routes and tops, rivers, canyons) and modern industrial construction (bridges, train stations, locomotives). With 2 pp. of introduction in French and Chinese. Album dedicated (?) or belonging (?) to Marius Nicaise (name on front flyleaf).