[ Photographs ] (Far East) Album of 105 rich unmounted views documenting a trip to the Orient, starting at Port Said and the Suez Canal, then continuing on to Hong Kong, Macao, Foochow, Canton, Shanghai, Nankin, Hanoi and Langson: and also including

[ Photographs ] (Far East) Album of 105 rich unmounted views documenting a trip to the Orient, starting at Port Said and the Suez Canal, then continuing on to Hong Kong, Macao, Foochow, Canton, Shanghai, Nankin, Hanoi and Langson: and also including 4 small panoramas, a close-up diptych of a bound foot, Chinese and German army maneouvers on a barren parade ground, the building of the Hankow to Peking railroad, and 8 hand-colored Japanese views of Kobe, Nagoya and Tokyo. Albumen and printing-out paper prints, 4 by Zangaki, various sizes, from 4 x 11.25 to 8.5 x 11inches, cornered into album leaves one or 2 per page, recto and verso, with handwritten period captions in French, in ink, and a laid-in family portrait (possibly the compiler?). Oblong folio, cloth, corners bumped, tears to spine. 1890s