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Lot 155
Sale 6330 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 8, 2025
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$600 -
800
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$640
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Lot Description
KOJIMA, S., editor [Yamamoto Photographic Studio]. View and Custom of North China. Tokyo: Tokyo Printing Co. for S. Kojima, 1909.
Oblong 8vo. Illustrated with numerous collotypes on 100 plates, printed titles in Chinese and English, title page in Chinese and publication page. (Some browning or spotting to a few margins.) Original gilt-lettered buckram, titled in Chinese and English. Provenance: T. Moriv (ownership stamps on half-title and colophon).
A notable and early photographic work documenting early 20th-century North China for Western tourists.