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- Lot 149
[CHINA]. Album of a trip to Peking, September-October 1907. S.l., [1907]. In-12 Italian style, half black basane with corners, burgundy percaline boards, spine with faux nerfs decorated with gold (binding very worn, interior very fresh).51 photographs, 12 x 17 cm, in sepia on albumen paper pasted in full on brown cardboard ff. and protected by a serpente, label with typewritten captions. Very nice professional quality views of Peking and its surroundings: Tsien Tsin railway station, city walls, the canal with boats, temples (of Heaven, of the Bell, of the Warm Water, etc.), Cha-Kho bridge, the city of Peking and its surroundings.), Cha-Kho bridge, hot springs in Tangshan, Belgian legation in Peking, summer residence of the Belgian Guard in He-Loung-Tan, summer palace of the Emperor, tomb of the Princess, Ming tombs, coal mines, Nan-Kow pass, Great Wall of China, etc. At the beginning of the album are 3 portraits (including 1 group) of travelers, whose names have been removed (except for a caption "L'ami Didier"). It would be a Belgian delegation of the Compagnie internationale des wagons-lits, a famous Franco-Belgian company which was at the origin of the Orient-Express and which launched the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to China and Japan via Siberia.
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