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Panorama Of Bangkok In The Reign Of King Rama IV: A New Discovery. -

Panorama Of Bangkok In The Reign Of King Rama IV: A New Discovery. -

Panorama of Bangkok in the reign of King Rama IV: a new discovery.

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  • Hardcover
Bangkok: Muang Boran, [2001]. Oblong folio, 24 x 34 cm, pp. [160, illustrated throughout]. Text in Thai with English summary. A very good copy in original cloth, dust wrapper. Reproductions of a collection of important panoramic photographs of Bangkok taken by Francis Chit, 1830-1891, a Thai-Christian who learned photography from two French missionaries, M. Pallegoix and M. Larnaudee. Francis Chit was a court photographer until the middle period of the reign of King Rama V. This book received the Honorable Mention Award for the most beautiful book of the 2002 Thai National Book Contest. ISBN: 974-7383-00-4