Unique Photo-Album Documenting an American Navy Serviceman's Time in China and the Philippines, While Serving Aboard the USS Monadnock W/ 83 SILVER GELATIN PHOTOGRAPHS

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$2,750 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller · No longer available

1904-1905. Hardcover. Oblong duodecimo. 26 double-sided heavy stock leporello leaves 52 pages containing a total of 83 photographs . Original brown lacquered boards, in a Chinese-style leporello binding, with hand-painted illustrated covers, containing figures on the front cover, which heads made of ivory, laid in the second figure's head is missing . This unique album contains a total of 83 mounted silver gelatin photographs, taken by an unidentified American sailor or naval

• Binding: Hardcover

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