RAID PÉKIN-PARIS.

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RAID PÉKIN-PARIS.
RAID PÉKIN-PARIS. Raid Peking-Paris by car. Album in-4 oblong, 137 original photographs, various sizes, pasted on cardboard of different colors, half burgundy leather with modern corners, case. The first and last pictures - 90 in total - are animated views of China: landscapes, receptions, daily life, horse and camel races, street scenes... We also recognize some participants of the Beijing-Paris raid. In the middle of the album, 47 photographs are directly related to the famous race; most of them have been captioned later: "Scipio Borghese's Itala and one of Dion's at the departure of Beijing, June 10, 1907" "Last parade of Nankou - in head one of Dion (Bouton) "etc... The Peking-Paris raid is one of the first great automobile raids. The idea was launched by the newspaper Le Matin on January 31, 1907, and they were 5 crews to launch on June 10, 1907 for a journey of 16,000 km. - Prince Scipione Borghese with his mechanic Ettore Buzzardi and the journalist Luigi Barzini on board an Itala. - Charles Godard and the journalist of Le Matin Jean du Taillis on board a Dutch Spyker. - Georges Cormier aboard the first De Dion-Bouton and his mechanic Jean Bizac. - Jean Collignon aboard the second De Dion-Bouton and the Italian journalist Eduardo Longoni. - Finally Auguste Pons on a Mototri Contal. Crossing the Gobi desert, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Berlin, and on August 10, the winner Scipio Borghese arrived in Paris. An official reception awaited him in the offices of Le Matin. Twenty days later, the last competitors of the Peking-Paris race arrived: the pair of Dion-Bouton and the Spyker of Godard. Finally, Auguste Pons did not make it to the finish line: he broke down in the Gobi desert and was taken in by nomads. Irregular prints, sometimes overexposed or faded.
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