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Japan.- Photograph Album, 50 hand-coloured albumen prints, comprising views of lakes, rivers, gardens and temples at Nikko, Yenoshima, Tokyo, Kamakura, Kanazawa, Fujiyama, Fujiya Hotel at Miyanoshita, Hot Springs of Hakone, and tea-picking, each c.210 x 270mm., some titled and numbered in the negative, mounted on both sides of pink card leaves edged in silk and with typescript captions pasted beneath, tissue guards, contemporary black lacquer covers decorated with moon and gilt bamboo on upper cover and flowers on lower, rubbed, slightly chipped at edges, lacking spine, broken and loose, [c.1890]; and another red lacquer album containing 40 postcards of Japan (views, group studies, ceremonies etc.), [c.1900], oblong 4to (2)

Lot 101

Japan.- Photograph Album, 50 hand-coloured albumen prints, contemporary black lacquer covers, [c.1890]; and another red lacquer album of postcards of Japan, oblong 4to (2)  

Hammer Price: £1,500

Description

Japan.- Photograph Album, 50 hand-coloured albumen prints, comprising views of lakes, rivers, gardens and temples at Nikko, Yenoshima, Tokyo, Kamakura, Kanazawa, Fujiyama, Fujiya Hotel at Miyanoshita, Hot Springs of Hakone, and tea-picking, each c.210 x 270mm., some titled and numbered in the negative, mounted on both sides of pink card leaves edged in silk and with typescript captions pasted beneath, tissue guards, contemporary black lacquer covers decorated with moon and gilt bamboo on upper cover and flowers on lower, rubbed, slightly chipped at edges, lacking spine, broken and loose, [c.1890]; and another red lacquer album containing 40 postcards of Japan (views, group studies, ceremonies etc.), [c.1900], oblong 4to (2)

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