
CHINA - IMPERIAL PALACE KAZUMASA OGAWA. Photographs of Palace Buildings of Peking Compiled by The Imperial Museum of Tokyo... Collotyped from the Negatives Taken by K. Ogawa... with Explanatory Notes, 3 vol., NUMBER 224 OF 500 COPIES, 169 (of 172) collotype plates from photographs by Ogawa (including 2 of 3 folding panoramas on 3 sheets joined, lacking plates 2, 6 and 7); Decoration of Palace Buildings of Peking with Eighty Plates, NUMBER 250 OF 1000 COPIES, 81 plates (including 20 hand-coloured plates tipped onto black card as issued, 2 folding maps printed in colours, and some others printed in colours, one plate unnumbered), together 3 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, text in English and Japanese (with photograph captions also in Chinese), titles printed in red and black, light spotting to a few plates but mostly very clean, original tissue guards, loose as issued in publisher's portfolio, the upper covers in watered silk over boards with the title against a decorative Chinese background design, ties (worn, inner flaps near detached), oblong folio (365 x 465mm.), Tokyo, K. Ogawa, 1906 (3) Footnotes: A MAGNIFICENT RECORD OF THE IMPERIAL PALACE IN PEKING. In the aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion the Imperial University of Tokyo commissioned a detailed study of the 'arrangement, construction and decoration of the Palace Buildings of the 'Forbidden City' and other palace grounds'. The fine series of 172 large photographs by Kazumasa Ogawa (1860-1929, a pioneering Japanese photographer) were a particular revelation as the complex had previously been 'jealously kept from public sight'. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing

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