Book of Vintage Chinese Photographs, Photographs of the Past Royal Family

Book of Vintage Chinese Photographs, Photographs of the Past Royal Family

Beautiful concertina style book of Chinese photographs.

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The book's title roughly translates to Photographs of the Past Royal Family. One photograph clearly shows the Empress Dowager Cixi, 慈禧太后 or 大清國當今慈禧端佑康頤昭豫莊誠壽恭欽獻崇熙聖母皇太后, 1835-1908, de facto ruler of the Qing Dynasty. The long version of her name reads as The Current Divine Mother Empress Dowager Ci-Xi Duan-You Kang-Yi Zhao-Yu Zhuang-Cheng Shou-Gong Qin-Xian Chong-Xi of the Great Qing Empire.

Hardback with Chinese silk/fabric cover with paper label to front. Very good condition overall. Slight soiling to label, but fabric intact and clean. Inside the concertina pages reveal 10 x printed photographs pasted down onto paper. The photographs are of course later printed reproductions and not 19th Century originals.

Dimensions:
164mm high x 110mm wide x 10mm deep