CHINA - JAPAN - Lot 35

CHINA - JAPAN Album. A French Infanterie de Marine soldier's stay in China and Japan, ca. 1895-1900. Photographs. 2 modern albums comprising approx. 147 and 96 citrate prints, some with captions. Enclosed are 6 cartes-de-visite of Arabic types, some by Geiser. Suez Canal, aboard the Rio Negro, Colombo, Shanghai : European concessions, Gordon Hall, small trades, Formosa, German circle, French hospital post, banks of the Peï-Ho, construction by coolies, portals and beggars, train to Peking, Empress Palace, Summer Palace, Winter Palace, Temple of Heaven, streets of Peking, Chinese police officers, musicians, General Voyron driving Monseigneur Favier missionary to China, the Laï Lama, Sikh horsemen, Chinese wheelbarrow, return to Shanghai, interior of a Yamen, Chepoo, Takeo, Nagasaki, Hong Kong, mass exit, officers, Tien-Tsin review, military maneuvers. approx. 8 x 11 cm