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IMPERIAL PALACE, PEKING 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 245 OF 500 COPIES, Tokyo, K. Ogawa (3) image 1
IMPERIAL PALACE, PEKING 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 245 OF 500 COPIES, Tokyo, K. Ogawa (3) image 2
IMPERIAL PALACE, PEKING 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 245 OF 500 COPIES, Tokyo, K. Ogawa (3) image 3
IMPERIAL PALACE, PEKING 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 245 OF 500 COPIES, Tokyo, K. Ogawa (3) image 4
IMPERIAL PALACE, PEKING 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 245 OF 500 COPIES, Tokyo, K. Ogawa (3) image 5
IMPERIAL PALACE, PEKING 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 245 OF 500 COPIES, Tokyo, K. Ogawa (3) image 6
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IMPERIAL PALACE, PEKING
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 245 OF 500 COPIES, Tokyo, K. Ogawa (3)

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IMPERIAL PALACE, PEKING

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 245 OF 500 COPIES, 172 collotype plates from photographs by Ogawa (including 3 folding panoramas on 3 sheets joined); Decoration of Palace Buildings of Peking with Eighty Plates, NUMBER 189 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, preserved in original wooden boxes (worn), oblong folio (365 x 465mm.), Tokyo, K. Ogawa (3)

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RARE COMPLETE SET OF 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 has previously been "jealously kept from public sight".

Provenance: Fred Rowntree FRIBA (1860-1927), the architect who in 1912 won the competition to design the West China Union University at Chengtu, Szechuan; thence by descent to the present owner.

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