Beautiful Burmah. An Album of Thirty-Seven Views of the Country and its People.
Rangoon. Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., (Circa 1910). Stock ID #220756 View book published the British department store proprietors Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co (dubbed the "Selfridges of the East"). The photographs were by the firm of Watts & Skeen who were active in Rangoon from 1887 to 1924. In addition to photography, Watts & sold Burmese art objects. Their photographic images captured a rich array of colonial-era subjects, its landscapes, architecture, people, and social fabric. When referring to this item please quote stockid 220756.
Thirty-seven photographic plates varying sizes, 16 two to a page and the rest full-page, black and white and 12 in colour, with descriptive text; illustrated stiff card wrappers with the silk cord tie, 19 x 24.5 cms, the wrappers very edge worn and stained, top corner creased and torn, head and tail of the spine missing, the title-page a little dusty, but otherwise in good condition.
Price: $275.00 AU