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(JAPAN)
A stunning Japanese album, with 100 hand-colored photographs of landscapes, architecture, and
occupational scenes, including Mount Fuji, Tokyo,Yokohama, Kyoto, temples, gates, stores, parks,
roads, geishas, store proprietors, and domestic scenes, as well as a composite of babies, a toy shop,
and an arch-topped scene of a Japanese funeral; several unusual images, and many with delicate
hand-coloring. Hand-colored albumen prints, each approximately 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), and
the reverse, all but 15 with a caption and inventory number in the negative; with the original tissue
guards. Oblong folio, elaborate floral patterned leather binding; all edges gilt; with the original cloth
box, split at seams. 1890s
[5,000/7,500]
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