Sale 2489 - Artists & Amateurs: Photographs & Photobooks, October 18, 2018

366 c   (SOCIETÉ DES INCAS) Large album with over 100 photographs documenting costumed members of the Society of the Incas at the Fêtes Populaires in Valenciennes, France. With numerous portraits of society members in traditional Peruvian costumes, dressed to march through the streets of Valenciennes in the yearly philanthropic parade, put on for the benefit of those less fortunate. Albumen prints, the images measuring 6x5 1 / 2 inches (15.2x14 cm.), the two-toned mounts 17x13 inches (43.2x33 cm.), each with the photographer’s credit, and location printed on mount recto. 1866-67   [3,000/4,500] 366 367 c   (BOXER REBELLION—CHINA) Album entitled China Expedition 1900-1901 with 85 photographs, including those related to the Boxer Rebellion as well as scenes in Shanghai and Peking by a German soldier; plus 3 commercial photographs of Sinai, one of a Sudanese laborer, and 5 of Japan. An historic snapshot album that includes scenes of the Boxer Rebellion, many lively scenes of military life, with official reviews, convoys, naval vessels, and camp scenes, which are interspersed with tourist views of a supine young women, workers on the streets, religious temples, British hunters with dogs, villagers, schoolchildren, and rickshaws transporting couples. Printing-out paper (85) and albumen prints (9), the images measuring 3x3 1 / 2 to 8x11 1 / 4 inches (7.6x8.9 to 20.3x28.6 cm.), mounted recto/verso, the Chinese images have a handwritten caption, in German, below each photograph. Tall folio, cloth with decorative motif. 1900-01 [1,500/2,500] 367