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Elegant album with 48 hand-colored photographs ofYokohama,Tokyo, Nagasaki, Kyoto, and more.
With picturesque compositions, including street scenes, landscapes, parks, temples, a range of
occupationals from carpenters to tea rooms, geishas, charming studies of children, and more. Hand-
colored albumen prints, the images measuring approximately 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), and the
reverse, mounted recto/verso, most with a caption in the negative. Oblong folio, red lacquer covers
with gilt highlights and ivory inlay depicting birds in a landscape, light wear; contemporary leather
backstrip; all edges gilt. 1880s
[2,000/3,000]
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(TOKYO,YOKOHAMA, KYOTO,
ET AL.)
A pair of Japanese albums with fine hand-coloring.
Each with 50 photographs, including numerous
landscapes as well as some occupational and
geisha scenes, temples, Buddha statues, and
Mt. Fuji. The landscapes are plentiful, and
range from formal and sublime, to natural and
intimate.Also with three stunning geisha scenes
with a striped background. Hand-colored
albumen prints, the images each measuring
approximately 7
1
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2
x9
1
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2
inches (19.1x24.1 cm.),
and the reverse, slotted into the paper mounts,
approximately 40 (total) with a number and
caption in the negative, and most with the
location or description, in pencil, on mount
recto. Oblong 4tos, plain cloth covers with a
stitched Japanese binding. 1890s
[2,500/3,500]
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