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Bid on the lot list Yann Le Mouel : 17 May 2022 - Salle 15 - Hôtel Drouot - Paris

PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPLORATIONS, TRAVEL AND INDUSTRY

Tuesday 17 May 2022 - 14:00 (CEST) - Live
Salle 15 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009 Paris
Yann Le Mouel
PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPLORATIONS, TRAVEL AND INDUSTRY
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Lot n° 1

TIBET – PHILIP HENRY EGERTON

"A Rich Doctor, the Nono, His Son, and a Poor Monk," 1863. Photograph. Albumen print mounted on cardboard, captioned in the negative and labeled below the image. Image: 17.5 x 21.5 cm; mount: 28 x 37 cm Another print of this image is in the Getty Museum,...

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Lot n° 2

INDE – SAMUEL BOURNE (1834-1912)

"Simla, Winter," 1863-1870. Photograph. Albumen print signed in the negative. 22,5 x 28,7 cm

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Lot n° 3

INDE

"The People of India": Types including Hazara, Sindh, Kohat, Hindus, forest tribe, ca.1868-1875. Photographs. 8 oval size albumin prints mounted on cardboard, typed captions under the image. Plates from the book "The people of India" published from 1868...

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Lot n° 4

INDE – FRANCIS FRITH (1822-1898)

Set of views and monuments, ca. 1870 : Cashmere, Mortund ruins, Gwalior, Ancient Temple of Tukut-i-Soliman, Bebee School Kookees Mosque, Palace and Harem of Guzerat, Batavia, Gobardhum, Bindrabund, Motee Musjid the Pearl Mosque, Agra Fort, Taj Mahal,...

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Lot n° 5

INDE

"Group of Bhooteas, Darjeeling, ca. 1880. Photograph. Albumen print with pencil captions on the back. 23.5 x 18.5 cm

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Lot n° 6

INDE

Indian family, cremation on the riverbank, ca. 1880. Photographs. 2 albumin prints, mounted on cardboard. Images : 19 x 23,5 cm to 21,5 x 27,5 cm ; mounts : 31 x 40 cm and 34 x 44 cm

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Lot n° 7

INDE - CEYLAN

"The loop agony point.D.H.R.19", Darjeeling; Lucknow Mosque; Lower Urwahi Gateway - Gwalior Fort", Ceylon: Riverfront, ca. 1880. Photographs. 4 albumin prints mounted on cardboard, captioned, 1 by Bourne & Shepherd.Images: 19 x 31 cm to 22 x 28 cm; mounts:...

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Lot n° 8

INDE - CEYLAN - SINGAPOUR

India: Jaipur, Maharajas' college, dancer, Lucknow, palace, mosque, Benares, the Ghats, Group of Brahmins, Bombay, Victoria station, Umber, Calcuta, Darjeeling, market, family, Agra, Taj Mahal; Ceylon by Scowen: Colombo, Singapore: High street, harbor,...

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Lot n° 9

INDE – ANGLETERRE – EUROPE

Album of a British family settled in India, stay in England and Europe, ca. 1890-1920: daily life, military, The Residency at Lucknow; Guernsey Album by Singleton, Port du Moulin, Bedales School, Aix-les-Bains, man with telescope, on motorcycle, team...

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Lot n° 10

CEYLAN – WILLIAM LOUIS HENRY SKEEN & Co

Young women, ca. 1880. Photograph. Albumen print signed in the negative. 27 x 21 cm

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Lot n° 11

CEYLAN - WILLIAM LOUIS HENRY SKEEN & Co

Album, ca. 1880: Kandy, Buddhist temple, palace, street scenes, bridge, Colombo, Lankarama Pagoda, Dambulla temple, hunting, elephants, tea and coffee cultivation, rubber gathering, palm trees, railroad, cave, chief of Kandy, portraits of women, coolie,...

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Lot n° 12

CEYLAN

"Bullock cart", "Weighing tea", ca. 1890. Photographs. 2 albumen prints mounted on both sides, captioned in pencil under the image.Images: 8.5 x 13.5 cm and 20.5 x 13.5 cm; mount: 25 x 18 cm

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Lot n° 13

CEYLAN

Tea: planting, harvesting, drying, storage, ca. 1890. Photographs. 13 albumen prints mounted on 3 plates, captioned below the image.images: 6 x 9 cm to 10 x 16.5 cm; plates: 32.5 x 45 cm

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Lot n° 14

CEYLAN - W.L.H. SKEEN & Co.

Buddhist monks, ca. 1890. Photograph. Albumen print mounted on cardboard, image: 27.5 x 22 cm, mount: 33 x 25 cm Provenance: Collection Auguste François.

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Lot n° 15

VOYAGE FRANCE – INDE – CEYLAN – SINGAPORE - CHINE

Album "L.D.W. 1901", Voyage from Marseille to Shanghai on board the liner Ernest Simons of the Messageries Maritimes, including photographs ca. 1865-1890 and views from 1901: Port Said, in the Suez Canal, Aden, the camel market; India: Bombay, the native...

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Lot n° 16

INDE

Set presenting monuments, landscapes and daily life in India, ca. 1920: banks of the Ganges in Benares, Alamgir Mosque, Fatepur Sikri, Tanjore, Jag Mandir, Charminar, small trades, markets, Lahore, Agra, Taj Mahal, Madurai. Photographs. Approximately...

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Lot n° 17

SIAM

Siamese woman, probably Queen Sunandha Kumariratana, accompanied by a Chinese man wearing Siamese costume in studio, ca. 1880. Photograph. Albumen print. 15 x 11.2 cm

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Lot n° 18

SIAM – PIERRE JOSEPH ROSSIER (1829-1886)

Women at a gate, 1862. Photograph. Albumen print mounted on cardboard, image: 21.8 x 16.2 cm, mount: 25 x 19 cm. Pierre Joseph Rossier, Swiss photographer, was one of the first to travel to China, Japan and Siam.

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Lot n° 19

BIRMANIE

Family, ca. 1868-1870. Photograph. Albumen print mounted on cardboard, image: 26 x 20.5 cm, mount: 27.5 x 22 cm

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Lot n° 20

CAMBODGE - SIAM

Album "Souvenir du Cambodge", 1886-1887 : Norodom 1st King of Cambodia, Ma-Thiapha, the governor of Battambang (Siam), family, police commissioner of Takéo, priest and bonzesses, Bangkok, Mekong, Mytho, bonzerie, Siamese family, Phnom-Penh, city hall,...

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Lot n° 21

CAMBODGE

Temple in Phnom Penh, ca. 1890. Photograph. Albumen print. Image: 23.5 x 31.5 cm; mount: 45 x 55 cm

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Lot n° 22

INDOCHINE

"Basket village, decortication", procession, ca. 1880. Photographs. 2 albumin prints, 1 by Pierre Dieulefils and captioned in the negative. 18 x 21,5 cm and 20,5 x 26,5 cm

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Lot n° 23

INDOCHINE

Family, musician and dancers, Annamite woman from Tonkin, on the river, ca. 1890-1930. Photographs. 7 prints of which 4 are albuminized and 3 are silver. 17 x 12 cm to 20 x 26.5 cm

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Lot n° 24

INDOCHINE

Execution, ca. 1895. Photograph. Citrate print mounted on cardboard, image: 12 x 16.5 cm, mount: 16 x 22.5 cm

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Lot n° 25

INDOCHINE – AFRIQUE – RÉGIONALISME - PLAQUES DE VERRE

Collection of glass plates of a French officer posted in Africa and Indochina, 1885-1895. Africa: Paris-Marseille, Arab market, Algiers, family, city, port, Oran, Brézina, Djibouti, camp, Tadjerouna, Bedouins, drum and bugle of riflemen. Indochina: Saigon,...

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Lot n° 26

INDOCHINE

Set of 3 albums "Indochine Française. General Government of Indochina". The Races, The Upper Tonkin, The Bay of Along, ca. 1925. Queen Chao Kan Fam, types of Moïs, young Laotian woman of the aristocratic class, Laotian woman in wedding costume, Cambodian...

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Lot n° 27

HUONG-KY

Portrait of Khai Dinh (1885-1925), Emperor of Annam from 1916 to 1925, ca.1925 Photograph. Vintage silver print mounted on cardboard, signed in ink by the emperor on the image, photographer's stamp under the image.Image: 22 x 16 cm; mount: 33 x 25.5 cm.An...

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Lot n° 28

INDOCHINE – PIERRE VERGER (1902-1996)

"Tsinh Ho", ca. 1935. Photograph. Silver print from the period, stamped by the author and titled in pencil on the back. 29.5 x 24.5 cm

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Lot n° 29

ASIE - PIERRE VERGER (1902-1996)

Indochina: a traditional Annam scholar, child, soldier; Cambodia: bonzes and young woman of Battambang; Laos: bonzesses and pagoda of Luang Prabang, ca. 1935. Photographs. 8 silver prints from the period, 1 enhanced on the image, stamped by the author...

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Lot n° 30

INDOCHINE

On the Phu Tho racetrack, young jockey, the weigh-in, the bettors, Saigon, 1952. Photographs. 6 silver prints from the period, some with captions and dates in pencil on the back. 24 x 18 cm

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Lot n° 31

CHINE

Canton: Flower Pagoda, junks, statues, temple yard, 1863-1880. Photographs. 4 albumen prints, 3 mounted on cardboard, 1 with Afong stamp on the back, 1 signed Dutton & Michaels 1863 in the negative. 21 x 27,5 cm to 33 x 44 cm Bibliography : T. Bennett...

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Lot n° 32

CHINE

Beijing: "Tea shop", Chu Yung Kwan Gateway Nankou Pas, Entrance to the Forbidden City, ca. 1870. Photographs. 3 albumin prints, 2 by Thomas Child, 2 mounted on cardboard, 1 captioned in the negative. 19 x 24 cm to 25 x 33 cm Bibliography: T. Bennett "History...

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Lot n° 33

CHINE

Hong Kong view of the South Harbor, Canton temple of the 500 disciples of Boudha, Xiamen view from Amoy, Chinese salon, ca. 1880. Photographs. 5 albumin prints mounted on cardboard, captioned below the image.images: 23 x 29 cm approx.; mounts: 30 x 29...

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Lot n° 34

CHINE - LAI FONG (1839-1890)

"Macao", ca. 1870. Photograph. Albumen print, captioned and dated August 1899 in pencil on the back. 21 x 27 cm

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Lot n° 35

CHINE

Boats on the beach, Chefoo, about 1880. Photograph. Albumen print mounted on card. 18.5 x 24 cm

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Lot n° 36

CHINE - WILLIAM SAUNDERS (1832-1892)

Women with small feet in a handcart, ca. 1870. Photograph. Albumen print: 14.5 x 19.5 cm; sheet: 20.5 x 27 cm

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Lot n° 37

CHINE

Family with women with small feet, Shanghai, ca. 1880. Photograph. Albumen print mounted on card, captioned in ink underneath the image.Image: 21.5 x 27.5 cm; mount: 27 x 31.5 cm

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Lot n° 38

CHINE

"Chinese woman with small feet, ca. 1880. Photograph. Albumen print mounted on card, captioned in ink on the back.Image: 25.5 x 21 cm; mount: 32 x 25 cm

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Lot n° 39

CHINE

Family in studio, ca. 1890. Photograph. Albumen print. 16.5 x 21.5 cm

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Lot n° 40

CHINE

"Chin-Kiang", ca. 1880. Photograph. Albumen print with caption on the back. 21.5 x 27 cm

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Lot n° 41

CHINE

Tientsin, ca. 1890. Photograph. Albumen print. 21 x 26.2 cm

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Lot n° 42

CHINE

Shanghai: The French Clock Tower, Hongkew market, Chinese Tea House, view of the quay, Astor House, ca. 1890. Photographs. 5 albumin prints, some with captions in the negative, 1 mounted on cardboard.images: 19 x 25 cm to 26 x 33 cm

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Lot n° 43

CHINE - AUGUSTE FRANÇOIS (1857-1935)

Funeral procession, child in the street, Yunnanfu, ca. 1900. Photographs. 4 silver prints from the period, captioned in pencil on the back.11 x 16 cm approx.

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Lot n° 44

CHINE – INDOCHINE - AUGUSTE FRANÇOIS (1857-1935)

Kouang-Si, Hong Kong, Singapore, Saigon, 1898-1899. Lien-Ho, the servant of Auguste François masked, with his dog, in the port of Lieou-Tcheou-Fou, life on the sampans, last moments of a pig, pirate's head exposed in a cage, Wou-Tcheou-Fou, Hong Kong...

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Lot n° 45

CHINE - AUGUSTE FRANÇOIS (1857-1935)

Album presenting the contact photographs of Auguste François : Voyage de Singapour en Chine, ca. 1900.104 vintage silver prints with captions or references.Images: 4.5 x 6 cm; album: 18 x 25.5 cm. 12 citrate or silver prints from the period are included,...

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Lot n° 46

CHINE - AUGUSTE FRANÇOIS (1857-1935)

Illustrated typescript "The Great Rapids of King-Ki-Tan. Kouang-Si", 1896. Personal notebook of Auguste François comprising 22 pages including 7 typed and 3 silver prints: Entrance of the Great Rapids of King-Ki-T'an, In the center of the Rapids of King-Ki-T'an....

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Lot n° 47

CHINE - AUGUSTE FRANÇOIS (1857-1935)

Illustrated tapestry "New Year's Eve on the Chinese Road. Yün-Nan", 1902-1903. Return from Tonkin - From Mong-Tseu to Yün- Nan-Fou, December 31, 1902. Personal notebook of Auguste François including 9 typed pages and 4 silver prints: "My Tchaï-Kouan,...

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Lot n° 48

CHINE - AUGUSTE FRANÇOIS (1857-1935)

Yunnan - Sichuan, 1904: On the road, Kien-Tchang Valley, Houei-Li-Tchéou, Kin-Cha-Kiang, Ma-Kay Valley with the convoy of Auguste François, Lo-Lo woman, Yun-Nan-Fou the city, its gates and suburbs, Lo-Lo chief strangled, caged, exposed in a street of...

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Lot n° 49

CHINE - AUGUSTE FRANÇOIS (1857-1935)

Portfolio presenting - 7 prints : portraits of Auguste François, in costume, in uniform, the father Bailly during the siege of the Consulate in Yun-Nan-Fou in 1900 - map of the region of Lao Kay in Yun-Nan-Fou around 1903 - canvas map of Indochina from...

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Lot n° 50

CHINE - AUGUSTE FRANÇOIS (1857-1935)

Life in Yun-Nan-Fou, portrait of Auguste François in a Chinese coat, funeral procession, pig farmer, fishing on the Red River, Group of Frenchmen under siege in June 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion: Auguste François surrounded by missionaries, officer,...

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