LOT 46 A group of 4 photograph albums, relating to a tour of duty of H.M.S. Kent based at the China Station, visiting China, Canton, Hong Kong, Macao, North Borneo, Singapore, and neighbouring regions, [c.1909-1911] (4) PHOTOGRAPHY
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A group of 4 photograph albums, relating to a tour of duty of H.M.S. Kent based at the China Station, visiting China, Canton, Hong Kong, Macao, North Borneo, Singapore, and neighbouring regions, approximately 320 albumen and gelatin silver prints, mounted between 1 and 6 images per page (varying size, mostly 145 x 105mm., or smaller), some pasted down, others loose in window mounts, contemporary cloth or half morocco (one with loss of spine), 8vo and 4to, [c.1909-1911] (4)
|Includes: China and Wai-Hai-Wei (c.100, including Emperor's summer palace, city walls, golf club, aftermath of fighting); Canton (c.30, some captioned in the negative, one by Lau-Fong); Hong Kong (c.50, including "native theatre", "from the peak", the racetrack, "Chinese graveyard", "Queen's Road Central"); British North Borneo (16, Jesselton town street and harbour views, "native village", "scene of murder by head hunters", views at Tenom and river Padas); Singapore (c.12, including "Chinese Theatre", motorcar "in the jungle, Singapore", rickshaw pullers, "Raffles Hotel"); others from Macao, Malta, Suez, Aden and Perim (including cricket ground), Colombo, Acapulco in Mexico (2, "A body of rebels" and "after capture by rebels", and ship life and British vessels.
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