[Hong Kong]
Sixty Diamond Jubilee Pictures of Hongkong
£5,040
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Hong Kong: R. C. Hurley, 1897. Oblong 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, 60 albumen-print photographs (including 2 folding panoramas), mounted rectos and versos of linen-hinged stiff card leaves with printed borders and captions, introductory text printed on front pastedown, list of contents to rear pastedown, binding slightly rubbed and marked, front inner hinge very slightly tender, spotting to front free endpaper, both panoramas (nos. 1 and 4) additionally creased where clumsily folded, second panorama rumpled and partially split
Footnote
Note: Library Hub traces one copy only in British and Irish institutional libraries, at the University of Edinburgh.