![[CHINA, SINGAPORE, PORT ARTHUR AND THE CAPTURE OF NANJING] [Album with 86 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Apparently Taken by a Naval Officer while Serving on S.M.S. “Scharnhorst,” the Flagship of the German East-Asia Squadron in 1909-1914, with the Views of Tsingtao/Quigdao, Hong Kong, Amoy/Xiamen, German Colonies in Samoa and New Guinea, Batavia, Singapore, Port Arthur, German Naval Ships and Commanders, and Scenes from the Second Chinese Revolution and the Capture of Nanjing in September 1913]](/pictures/thumb/543.jpg?v=1542900622)
[CHINA, SINGAPORE, PORT ARTHUR AND THE CAPTURE OF NANJING] [Album with 86 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Apparently Taken by a Naval Officer while Serving on S.M.S. “Scharnhorst,” the Flagship of the German East-Asia Squadron in 1909-1914, with the Views of Tsingtao/Quigdao, Hong Kong, Amoy/Xiamen, German Colonies in Samoa and New Guinea, Batavia, Singapore, Port Arthur, German Naval Ships and Commanders, and Scenes from the Second Chinese Revolution and the Capture of Nanjing in September 1913]
Ca. 1912-1913. 33,5x23,5 cm. 36 album leaves (14 blank). With 86 original gelatin silver prints from ca. 12x17 cm to ca. 8x11 cm. Most images numbered in negative, all with period manuscript ink captions in German on the mounts, some also dated in ink. Later navy-blue half morocco with moire... More
![[CHINA – MANCHURIA - DALIAN] [Album of 36 Photogravures with the Plan, Street Views and Panoramas of the Newly Built City of Dalny, the Furthermost Russian Outpost in Manchuria in 1898-1905, and Modern-Day Dalian, the Major Seaport of the Liaoning Province of China, Titled in Russian:] Dalny, 1902](/pictures/thumb/542.jpg?v=1542900396)
![[CHINA – SECOND OPIUM WAR] [Album of Three Original Albumen Photographs, One Pencil Drawing and Two Watercolour Plans Illustrating the Third Battle of the Taku Forts during the Second Opium War in July-August 1860, Including Plans of the Forts and a nearby City of Tientsin/ Tianjin, a Scene with British Naval and Troop Ships Approaching the Landing Site at Pehtang/Beitang, and Group Portraits of the Officers of the British 31st Regiment of Foot who took Part in the Battle and were Stationed in Tientsin in 1861-62]](/pictures/thumb/534.jpg?v=1542806209)
![[CHINA – BOXER REBELLION] [Japanese Lacquered Album of Fifty Original Hand-Coloured Albumen Photographs of Beijing and Tianjing, Most Likely Compiled as a Keepsake for the Officers and Soldiers from the International Forces of the Eight-Nation Alliance which Took Part in the Suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900]](/pictures/thumb/532.jpg?v=1542804706)
![[CHINA - BEIJING] [Album of Seventy-Five Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Beijing and Environs Taken by a German Officer during the First Years of the Republic of China]](/pictures/thumb/531.jpg?v=1542804239)
![[RARE FOOTAGE FROM THE LIFE OF THE TILE MAKING FACTORY] Keramiko-plitochny zavod imeni N.A. Bulganina [i.e. N.A. Bulganin Ceramic Tile Factory]](/pictures/thumb/506.jpg?v=1533144768)
![[SOVIET WORKER MUST REST] Doma otdykha: Sbornik statei i materialov [i.e. Pensions: Collection of Materials and Articles]](/pictures/thumb/456.jpg?v=1524136358)
![[MIDDLE EAST – ISRAEL, PALESTINE (HOLY LAND)] [Album with 50 Large Original Albumen Photographs Showing Religious Sites and Views of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Jaffa]. Maison Bonfils.](/pictures/thumb/414.jpg?v=1519393878)
![[AFRICA - ALGERIA - TLEMCEN] [Album with 124 Original Albumen Photographs, Taken by a Cavalry man from the Second Regiment of the “Chasseurs d’Afrique” of the French Armée d’Afrique, while Stationed in Tlemcen (Northwestern Algeria), with Interesting Views of Tlemcen, Portraits of Fellow Officers, and Several Views of Tunis, Constantine and Annaba]](/pictures/thumb/412.jpg?v=1519393175)
![[RUSSIA - NORTH CAUCASUS] [Collection of Eighteen Original Albumen Photographs of Kislovodsk, Pyatigorsk, Zheleznovodsk, and the Georgian Military Road from the Series “Views of the Caucasus”]. Grigory Ivanovich Rayev.](/pictures/thumb/259.jpg?v=1490790339)
![[ASIA - TURKMENISTAN] [Collection of Forty-Nine Original Photographs of Soviet Turkmenistan, Including Over Twenty Views of Ashgabat Taken Before the 1948 Earthquake, Views of Chardzhou, Mary, Kyzyl-Arvat, and Picturesque Portraits of the Local People]. Ivan N. PANOV.](/pictures/thumb/258.jpg?v=1490789956)
![[ASIA - KYRGYZSTAN] [Collection of Thirty-Three Original Photographs of the Early Years of Soviet Kyrgyzstan, Showing First Steamers on Lake Issyk-Kul, Koisara and Jeti-Ögüz Resorts, Monument to Nikolay Przhevalsky at the Shore of Lake Issyk-Kul, and Over a Dozen Portraits of Kirghiz People Taken Near Przhevalsk (modern Karakol)]. Ivan N. PANOV.](/pictures/thumb/257.jpg?v=1490789709)
![Inscription by K. Timiryazev on a phototype of his portrait: “Georgiyu Kuz’michu Fel’tdenu ot serdechno predannogo K. Timiryazeva [i.e. To Georgy Kuz’mich Fel’tden. Your sincerely K. Timiryazev]. Kliment TIMIRYAZEV.](/pictures/thumb/136.jpg?v=1472299403)