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[CHINA] [BOXER WAR ]- CHILE-CHINA SOUVENIR. S.l. [Tokyo], [Ogawa Kazumasa], n.d. [ca. 1901]. 260 x 340 mm, leaves assembled in Japanese style by 2 silk cords, paper cover decorated with patterns in brown, green and silver, title label in the center of the upper cover (small label glued in the lower right corner of the second cover). [1 bl.], [50] leaves of plates. Album of 50 plates with 159 collotypes, captioned in German and English, illustrating the devastation of the Boxer War. Photographs taken after the landing, in 1900, of the expeditionary force of the 8 western allied nations sent to the rescue of Europeans and Japanese as well as Chinese Christians, refugees in the diplomatic quarter and the Catholic cathedral of Peking, besieged by the Boxers, assisted by the imperial troops. Destruction of the Chinese fortifications of Taku, capture of Tientsin, Peking, the Summer Palace, Ming tombs. Numerous views of districts, buildings and monuments before and after their destruction. Views of the Great Wall up to Shan Hai Kwan where it ends in the waters of the Gulf of Chihli (Bohai). Chili is the old name of the province of Hebei, which surrounds Beijing. RARE ICONOGRAPHIC DOCUMENT.
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