Description
Japan.- Photograph Album, 50 hand-coloured albumen prints of unusual brightness, comprising portraits of the Mikado and the Empress, views and street scenes of Yokohama and Tokyo, teahouses, bathing places, boating, and the temples at Shiba, each c.210 x 270mm., mounted on both sides of pink card leaves with typescript captions pasted beneath, tissue guards, contemporary roan-backed black lacquer covers, upper cover with scene of woman in a rickshaw in front of Mount Fuji, the faces of the woman and rickshaw puller of inlaid carved bone pieces, a little rubbed, chips to corners and lower cover, joints split, oblong 4to, [c.1890].
Lot 100
Japan.- Photograph Album, 50 hand-coloured albumen prints, contemporary roan-backed black lacquer covers, upper cover with scene of woman in rickshaw in front of Mount Fuji, oblong 4to, [c.1890].
Hammer Price: £1,500
Description
Japan.- Photograph Album, 50 hand-coloured albumen prints of unusual brightness, comprising portraits of the Mikado and the Empress, views and street scenes of Yokohama and Tokyo, teahouses, bathing places, boating, and the temples at Shiba, each c.210 x 270mm., mounted on both sides of pink card leaves with typescript captions pasted beneath, tissue guards, contemporary roan-backed black lacquer covers, upper cover with scene of woman in a rickshaw in front of Mount Fuji, the faces of the woman and rickshaw puller of inlaid carved bone pieces, a little rubbed, chips to corners and lower cover, joints split, oblong 4to, [c.1890].