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CHINA RAILWAY - PHOTOGRAPHY
Chemins de Fer de l'etat Chinois, c.1930

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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CHINA RAILWAY - PHOTOGRAPHY

Chemins de Fer de l'etat Chinois. Ligne du Lunghai. Albums des monuments antiques le long du Lunghai [title on upper cover], 38 gelatin silver prints (of 40) loose mounted at corners as issued, tissue guards with printed captions in Chinese and French in red (one missing, several loose and frayed), images 145 x 190mm., or the reverse, publisher's sewn black cloth, upper cover blocked in gilt and titled in Chinese and French, oblong 4to (225 x 310mm.), [no place or date, c.1930]

Footnotes

Scarce photographic record of major sites situated along the Longhai (formerly Lunghai) railway running west to east from Lianyungang, Jiangsu on the Yellow Sea through Henan Province to Xi'an (Sianfu), Shaanxi Province.

Provenance: Eton College, with withdrawn stamp.

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