Far East snaps fetch £350k

AN album of photographs taken in China during the 1900s by an Edinburgh
pioneer has sold at auction for £350,000.

The 1873 book of 80 prints by John Thomson was one of 46 copies made and which documented some of the earliest photos of life in the Far East.

It was revealed yesterday that the rare collection had been sold by auctioneer Sotheby’s in London