Photography - South America/Natural Disaster - an early 20th...

Hammer

£450

Photography - South America/Natural Disaster - an early 20th century quarter-ox blood morocco and pebbled buckram photograph album, Chile, compiled by James Steed, 1905 - 1915, a British entrepreneur and grocer then of Valparaíso, containing 40 sepia monochrome images of the city and its environs following the 1906 earthquake and tsunami, further images of its ports, suburbs and slums, various horse, cycle and running races, formal and informal images of individuals at play and ease, each card leaf annotated in Mr Steed's own hand, the spine titled &c in gilt, within raised bands, large 4to