CEYLON - HONG-KONG - CHINA - INDOCHINA - INDIA - HAWAII - CH - Lot 13

CEYLON - HONG-KONG - CHINA - INDOCHINA - INDIA - HAWAII - CHARLES T. SCOWEN 1852-1948 - JOHN BLEES (act.1880-1890) - RICE & PERKINS - THE COLOMBO APOTHECARIES Album by a French traveler presenting landscapes and a few portraits, mainly in Asia, ca.1875-1900. Photographs. Album comprising approx. 57 prints, including 29 albumen prints, 3 color-enhanced albumen prints, 17 period silver prints and 8 citrate prints. Hong-Kong: warships in harbor, West of harbor: S.S. Kiu Kiang to Macao, canal to funicular station, government house, funicular to Peak, club, Queen's Building (Bund), racecourse, Bowen Road, pagoda in Canton; Hanoi: residence and town hall, cathedral, Philharmonic monument, Place du Charbon, Rue des Graines, pagoda of the Great Buddha, Annamite regiment, legionnaires en route; Sang-Song: La Résidence; Colombo: harbor and customs, monsoon effects, "Grand Oriental" hotel, lighthouse and clock, barracks, Catholic church, hotel at Mount Lavinia, Buddhist temple, monks worshipping a Buddha tooth at the Temple of the Tooth, native street, museum, group of Malay children, Malay family, mausoleum, lake; Kandy: "Queen's Hotel, lake, portrait of women with traditional jewelry, monk at entrance to Buddhist temple, dagoba (stupa); Calcutta: French trunk "Le Dupleix" in river, general post office, government house, Eden Garden, Grand Hotel, pagoda, Parshwanath temple; Honolulu: government house, Queen's palace and carriage, natives, Europeans on horseback. Images: 11.6 x 16.4 cm to 21.2 x 27.1 cm; album: 25 x 33.5 cm