SiamA collection of thirty-eight photographs, circa. 1880s 38 albumen prints (34: approximately 215 x 275mm., or the reverse, 4: 130 x 95mm.), mounted recto only on 36 card mounts (328 x 460mm.), captioned by hand in German in ink on the reverse, housed in a contemporary fitted buckram box with red label on the spine titled 'Siam', some fading, spotting and stains to mounts and occasionally to images, box stained and slightly worn A good collection of nineteenth-century views of Siam (modern day Thailand) in and around Bangkok together with a few portraits including the king, members of the royal family, and monks. PROVENANCE:One of a series of 13 portfolios of travel photographs assembled by a collector/traveller in the 1890s, see also lots 1, 4, 5, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 52 and 159.
SiamA collection of thirty-eight photographs, circa. 1880s 38 albumen prints (34: approximately 215 x 275mm., or the reverse, 4: 130 x 95mm.), mounted recto only on 36 card mounts (328 x 460mm.), captioned by hand in German in ink on the reverse, housed in a contemporary fitted buckram box with red label on the spine titled 'Siam', some fading, spotting and stains to mounts and occasionally to images, box stained and slightly worn A good collection of nineteenth-century views of Siam (modern day Thailand) in and around Bangkok together with a few portraits including the king, members of the royal family, and monks. PROVENANCE:One of a series of 13 portfolios of travel photographs assembled by a collector/traveller in the 1890s, see also lots 1, 4, 5, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 52 and 159.
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