The Far-East. Sixty pictures. Hong Kong, Canton, Macao, Shanghai, Peking.
by Robert Crisp Hurley (1848-1927)
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Tuebingen, Germany
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
60 original photographs, albumen, each c. 100 x 147 mm, pasted recto and verso onto 30 white cardboard mounts within black rules and lithogr. captions. Each photograph in our copy with manuscript annotation on the location shown. Publisher's half cloth with identical illustrated lithogr. title on both covers signed "Hong Kong, Victoria Litho". Oblong 4to (165 x 240 mm). Back cover rubbed, extremeties worn.
The majority of photographs in good tonal range. Rear paste-down with manuscript ownership inscription dated 26/8/(19)00. A rare published album with excellent original photographs especially made for the prospering tourist market. Each city is shown on 12 photographs. Rear paste-down with printed short notes on the five cities presumably by Robert Crisp Hurley himself, photographer/editor and publisher, who lived in Hong Kong from 1879 to 1927. His most successful publishing projects had been two guide books on Hong Kong which went through many editions.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquariat Banzhaf (DE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2238
- Title
- The Far-East. Sixty pictures. Hong Kong, Canton, Macao, Shanghai, Peking.
- Author
- Robert Crisp Hurley (1848-1927)
- Format/Binding
- Publisher’s half cloth with identical illustrated lithogr. title on both covers signed "Hong Kong, Victoria Litho"
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Victoria Litho
- Place of Publication
- Hong Kong
- Date Published
- no date (c. 1900)
- Size
- Oblong 4to (165 x 240 mm).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- photography,
Terms of Sale
Antiquariat Banzhaf
About the Seller
Antiquariat Banzhaf
About Antiquariat Banzhaf
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...