China, Manchuria. An album of 35 photographs taken of and in...

Hammer

£220

China, Manchuria. An album of 35 photographs taken of and in Dalny [aka Dalniy/Dalian], n.d. [c. 1902], monochrome and mixed sizes, illustrated with the interior of a Westerner's house resident in the newly-built Russian/Chinese seaport, its streets, workers, scenes of domestic native life, etc., the rest of the disbound album blank, oblong 8vo (15 x 22.5cm)


Provenance: George Lees (1857-1943), of Leven, Fife, Scotland, a civil engineer employed in Imperial Russia, including parts of present-day Latvia and China, and almost certainly involved in the construction of Dalian's docks; thence by direct family descent.