Artist / Author / Cartographer:

Hurley, Robert Crisp

Title:

The Far-East - Hong Kong, Canton, Macao, Shanghai, Peking

Date:

c.1908

Medium:

albumen prints

Size:

Oblong 8vo

Description:

The Far-East - Hong Kong, Canton, Macao, Shanghai, Peking.

 

60 albumen photographs mounted on cardboard, printed captions below. Oblong 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards, slightly rubbed, several images faded, but overall still a very good copy. Tipped-in list of plates on back board

The album starts in Hong Kong with a "Bird'seye View of the Colony from Victoria Gap' and finishes with "The Observatory, founded by the Jesuit Fathers in the 16th century", in Peking.

 

No copy in OCLC nor the British Library Catalogue.

References:

Item Code:

36.Bk1917

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