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CHINA - BEIJING Sixteen views of the Imperial Summer palace and environs, near Beijing, albumen prints, 2 laid down, 5 captioned in French in ink lower right, most with pencil captions in French on verso, typically 260 x 195mm., or similar, [1870s/80s] (16) Footnotes: Subjects include the Five Pagoda [Zhenjue] Temple (4), the Woo-Fa-Temple (2), the seventeen-arch bridge, stupa at the Xihuang Temple (2, numbered '15' in the negative), Tianning Temple (numbered '17' in the negative), views of Wanshou hill and Kumming lake (2), and the ?Tanzhe Temple (captioned 'Tan Shan'). 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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CHINA - BEIJING Sixteen views of the Imperial Summer Palace and environs, near Beijing, [1870s/8...
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