CHINA - SALT PRINTS A group of 1850s salt prints, including the five-storied pagoda at Canton [Guangzhou], portraits (Chinese lady of Canton; 2 of smartly dressed Chinese boy), French soldiers (2 with cannons) outside Chinese buildings, a Chinese statue with plants, and a French ship, salt prints, fading, mounted on card or with remnants of mounting on verso, images 160 x 130mm., and smaller (smallest 145 x 105mm.), c.1858-1859 (9) Footnotes: 1850S PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHINA - a scarce group of salt prints, most probably taken in relation to France's military participation in China under Admiral Rigault de Genouilly during the Second Opium War. The view of the five-storied pagoda at Canton is taken from a very similar position as a stereo-view photograph by the Swiss Pierre Joseph Rossier. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing