Photograph album containing portraits of a Belgian Lazarist missionary to China, and including a group of late Qing traditional paper and silk Chinese dolls. Circa 1903-1964

A$875 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Photograph album, circa 1900. Small oblong quarto (165 x 235 mm), half morocco with ornamental gilt rule over faux crocodile papered boards, original floral-patterned lining papers, front pastedown with binder s ticket of bookseller and stationer Gilon, Verviers (Belgium); [20] leaves of thick card, containing 4 cabinet card format portrait photographs of Lazarist missionary Father Jacques Jamar 2 taken in China and showing him wearing Chinese clothing, one taken in Amiens (loose), and the other probably in a Belgian studio and a carte de visite format albumen print, also showing the missionary in Chinese attire (4 of the 5 portraits are mounted and have contemporary captions in ink on the album pages identifying the subject as Jacques Jamar, Missionnaire Lazariste, Chine ); 8 pages on which are mounted 15 late Qing period traditional Chinese dolls depicting men, women and children (various sizes up to 200 mm) made from paper and silk, most embellished with seed pearl buttons and several with human hair (all in very good condition, apart from one which has lost the paper head); 5 tipped-in silver gelatin prints (each 205 x 140 mm) dating to around 1920, showing the Catholic Cathedral at Chengtingfu and various Chinese temples (these are captioned Cathédrale de Tcheng Ting Fou , Tchuan t a , Mou t a , Ts ung t a , and Hoa t a ); 3 studio portraits, dating to the early 1900s, of Belgian Catholic nuns, identified as Mère Célestine and Mère Léonie (2); a page with a religious ded

• Binding: Hardcover

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