Sale 2458 - Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks, October 19, 2017

33 33 c (JAPAN) A pair of Japanese albums with a total of 69 photographs showing scenic landscapes, studies of temples, gardens, and overviews of towns and small cities as well as ruins after an earthquake. Including numerous delicately hand-colored photographs.The first album with 35 photographs, 10 of which are not hand-colored and appear to show the devastating aftermath of the Mino- Owari Earthquake of 1891, including residents standing amid the ruins. The second with 34 photographs, nearly half of which are hand-colored. Albumen prints, the images measuring approximately 7 1 / 2 x9 1 / 2 inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), and slightly larger, and the reverse, mounted recto/verso, some with captions or numeric notations in the negative. Small oblong folios, leather, lightly worn, each with a gilt-lettered roman numeral (I and III) on the backstrip. 1890s [3,000/4,500] 34 c (JAPAN) An album with 60 pastoral Japanese scenes. Including samurai in their armor, monks worshiping Buddhist demigod idols, beautiful geishas, lush mountain landscapes, and more. Hand-colored albumen prints, the images measuring 8 1 / 8 x10 1 / 4 inches (20.7x26 cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto/verso, most with a caption in the negative, and some with a handwritten caption on the mount. Oblong 4to, green silk with embroidered details, lightly worn; accordion-fold binding, most loose. Circa 1870-80 [1,400/1,800] 34