1890. Souvenir of Cochinchine, c.1890. - Album... Lot 48

1890. Souvenir of Cochinchine, c.1890. - Album in-quarto oblong (25x32.5 cm), gilt title on the first plate, used period binding. 41 albumen and silver prints of various formats. Pencil annotations on the mounts. Landscapes and types of Saigon: tomb plain, cathedral, Post and Telegraph Hotel, Statue of Gambetta, Cholon, Battleship Turenne, Repair of the telegraph line at Cape St Jacques, On the Mekong, Opium smoker, Governor Paul Doumer, Protectorate of Cambodia... We enclose 14 albumen prints mounted on cardboard, captioned in ink on the mounts. Views of landscapes and types of Indochina. Leper in Sontay, Sago manufacture, Fishing on the Song -ha-hieu, Entrance of the citadel of Sontay, Ass of bowl, School house and pagoda of Cho-Ra, caves of Pang... images :12x16,5 cm montages :24x31 cm