EXTREMELY RARE CHINA AMOY BY GEORGE UVEDALE PRICE COLLOTYPE PHOTOGRAPH PLATES

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EXTREMELY RARE CHINA AMOY BY GEORGE UVEDALE PRICE COLLOTYPE PHOTOGRAPH PLATES:
$5500.00

EXTREMELY RARE PUBLICATION CHINA AMOY BY GEORGE UVEDALE PRICE
Amoy. Yokohama, Hongkong, Shanghai & Singapore: Kelly & Walsh Limited, [c.1893],paper
Oblong folio (295 x 400mm.), letterpress title, five parts each with a divisional title and text leaf, 13 collotype plates, with paper guards numbered I-XIII, original cloth-backed printed grey wrappers, puncture marks to title causing minor impression to first few leaves and plates, small chip to title, expert repairs to wrappers, wrappers slightly discoloured
An extremely rare publication of views of Amoy and portraits of its inhabitants,including a Chinese fortune teller,Taoist priest, and a Joss House. This volume appears to be unrecorded, howeverPrice published another work titledRambles with a camera, or,A series of photographs with descriptive text illustrating the physical features, scenery of native life of the island of Amoy and its immediate neighbourhood[c.1893], of which we have located 4 copies (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Cornell University, British Library and the Bodleian Library, Oxford). The present volume differs in its dimensions and description, and may bea precursor or derivative of this other work.

The photographs show (our titles): 1. Tiger; 2.Junks on shore; 3. Waterfall; 4. The Drying Stones; 5. Graves; 6. Boulder sculpture; 7.Joss house; 8. Chu-Fut-Ze wooden sculpture; 9.Kwante wooden sculpture; 10. Star of Literature sculpture; 11. Portrait of two Chinese men seated at a table; 12. Group of 6 men playing a card game; 13. Taoist priest;