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INDO-CHINA - VIETNAM Album of views and groups in French Colonial Vietnam, including Hanoi (6), Hué (14) and Nam Dinh (4), [c.1890-1900] image 1
INDO-CHINA - VIETNAM Album of views and groups in French Colonial Vietnam, including Hanoi (6), Hué (14) and Nam Dinh (4), [c.1890-1900] image 2
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INDO-CHINA - VIETNAM
Album of views and groups in French Colonial Vietnam, including Hanoi (6), Hué (14) and Nam Dinh (4), [c.1890-1900]

3 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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INDO-CHINA - VIETNAM

Album of views and groups in French Colonial Vietnam, including Hanoi (6), Hué (14) and Nam Dinh (4), albumen prints (approximately 205 x 270mm.) mounted 1 per page recto only, captioned in ink on mount in French, contemporary half morocco, lettered "A.R." on upper cover, worn, hinges cracked, oblong 4to, [c.1890-1900]

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Images include: "Mr. Ringeval, V. Resident" and his staff (one with "une baguette à la main"); "Groupe annamite"; "Joseph Sanh et sa famille ex-lieutenant aux Pavillons jaune", "Arsenal d'Haiphon"; Nam Dinh ("Le Rocher de Ningh Binh"; Infantry barracks for "Tirailleurs tonkinois", [Tonkinese Rifles], showing troops and French staff outside Pagoda accomomdation (2); Main gate and street view); Hanoi (views on the lake (2); "Cannoniere [small military boat] de rivière"; military encampment showing local carts and oxen; "avenue de la concession francaise"; French Resident's house); Hué (Royal Palace (6); Summer Palace; City walls; "Tour de Confucius"; view of the Legation; portrait of "Bohau-Chin-That-Ba (Gouverneur de Hué)"; "Femme du Gouverneur de la Citadelle de Hué"; Thuan-an view; Quin-han tombs).

Provenance: Probably compiled by the late nineteenth century French Colonial administrator Mr. A. Ringeval, pictured with his staff at Tourane, with his initials "A.R." on binding.

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