Lot 157
China.- [Satow (D.)] An album of 50 views of the Shanghai Amateur Circus, 1901.
Hammer Price: £12,000
Description
China.- [Satow (D.)] An album of 50 views of the Shanghai Amateur Circus, albumen prints, mounted one to a page, some a little faded, light warping, light spotting, mostly to mounts, Shanghai Amateur Circus programme and playbill loosely inserted, ink stamp "D. Satow, Portrait & Landscape Photographer, P.851, Nanking Road, Shanghai" to pastedown, original calf-backed cloth, clown and horse illustration to upper cover, a little worn, oblong folio, 1901.
⁂ A very good album including images of the Big Top tent, a man with a group of boys wearing monkey masks (according to the programme named "Professor Pipelet with his troupe of trained monkeys"), a number of men and women on horseback and numerous images of performers in unusual animal costumes.
Description
China.- [Satow (D.)] An album of 50 views of the Shanghai Amateur Circus, albumen prints, mounted one to a page, some a little faded, light warping, light spotting, mostly to mounts, Shanghai Amateur Circus programme and playbill loosely inserted, ink stamp "D. Satow, Portrait & Landscape Photographer, P.851, Nanking Road, Shanghai" to pastedown, original calf-backed cloth, clown and horse illustration to upper cover, a little worn, oblong folio, 1901.
⁂ A very good album including images of the Big Top tent, a man with a group of boys wearing monkey masks (according to the programme named "Professor Pipelet with his troupe of trained monkeys"), a number of men and women on horseback and numerous images of performers in unusual animal costumes.