£750
China and the Second Sino - Japanese War. An album of photographs of China and elsewhere in South East Asia, possibly taken by a member of the Fleet Air Arm, c1935-37, mostly snapshot - quarter plate format, including a series of 32 of the bombing of Canton (Guangzhou) 1937, Royal Navy aircraft carriers and other warships, the building of Singapore naval base 1937, Coronation Day celebrations in Hong Kong 1937, the damage caused by a typhoon, Chefoo, Tsingtao, the bombing of Shanghai, Japanese destroyers off Shanghai, British Weihaiwei, Singapore and Johore, the attack on Amoy including Japanese landing boats, Henan, Stonecutters Rifle Range 1938, Tientsin, Peking and Swatow, captioned in white ink, none laid down (454, in contemporary album)
Good condition
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