[China] "Autour du Monde, 1911-1912.
Asie: Indo-Chine: Cochinchine-Annam-Tonkin. Chine: Honh-Kong - Sjanghai. Canton-Macao. 2." (title on front cover). Album with ca. 160 pasted picture postcards, photos etc., ca. 1912, gilt lettered morocco, oblong large folio (43 x 59 cm.).
The right-hand margin of the album has been exposed to damp on the inside (mostly at the beginning) and outside, staining and/or damaging a part of the pasted plates, the holders and the binding. Therefore sold w.a.f.
Fine album, with mostly (series of) coloured and b/w picture postcards (incl. panorama cards (2x, 9 x 55.5 cm.), but also photos (incl. series of photos of ca. 10 x 14 cm. of Canton (12x), Macao (6x) and Shanghai (6x)). Notable are also original photos of a decapitation and of torture, and also several gruesome picture postcards with these subjects.