A COLLECTION OF EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS

A COLLECTION OF EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS

19TH CENTURY

Comprising: two albums with black leather covers, one titled 'The Straits, China & Japan' and the other 'Japan, Sandwich Islands and America' and both inscribed 'L. Lees, 1894'; the first with sixty-one views of Penang, Singapore, Canton (Guangzhou), Hong Kong, Japan and other locations, and portraits of figures enjoying daily pursuits; the second with further pictures of Japan, the Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands), San Francisco, Chicago, and the Niagara Falls, each picture with a hand-written inscription underneath and some hand-tinted; together with a third album containing photographs of various places in Scotland. (3)

Provenance: an English private collection, acquired by L M Lees on his world tour in 1894, and thence by descent.