China And South India Spine Title An Album Of 41 Black White Albumen Photographs A Selection Of Both

$6,000 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

NP: np, nd ca. 1866 - 1879 . Oblong photo album, 11 x 16 in., bound in 3/4 leather and cloth boards, elaborately embroidered with a gilt threaded dragon. Gilt title on spine. Professional photos laid down on stiff card stock mounted on cloth tape stubs, one photo to a page, recto and verso, varying in size from 5.75 x 8 in.; 6.5 x 8.5 in.; 8.75 x 11.5 in.; to 7.5 x 12 in. The first 25 images are without captions except two labelled Botanical Garden, and one

• Binding: Hardcover

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