Description

Japan.- Four Photograph Albums, containing a total of 195 hand-coloured albumen prints, 2 of mostly views but also scenes of hair-dressing and dancing, the other two mostly portraits and scenes of recreations and occupations, each 100 x 140mm. or vice versa, a few titled in the negative, all mounted on thick card leaves in concertina format (one broken and loose), some spotting to mounts, one with contemporary cloth covers, the rest in contemporary red lacquer, upper covers decorated in gilt and colours with respectively scenes of a woman in a rickshaw, a woman in a boat and cranes with bamboo, the faces and birds of inlaid carved bone or mother of pearl pieces, a little rubbed and chipped, mostly at edges, oblong 8vo, [c.1890].

Lot 102

Japan.- Four Photograph Albums, containing a total of 195 hand-coloured albumen prints, one in cloth, the rest contemporary red lacquer with decorated upper covers, oblong 8vo, [c.1890].  

Hammer Price: £650

Description

Japan.- Four Photograph Albums, containing a total of 195 hand-coloured albumen prints, 2 of mostly views but also scenes of hair-dressing and dancing, the other two mostly portraits and scenes of recreations and occupations, each 100 x 140mm. or vice versa, a few titled in the negative, all mounted on thick card leaves in concertina format (one broken and loose), some spotting to mounts, one with contemporary cloth covers, the rest in contemporary red lacquer, upper covers decorated in gilt and colours with respectively scenes of a woman in a rickshaw, a woman in a boat and cranes with bamboo, the faces and birds of inlaid carved bone or mother of pearl pieces, a little rubbed and chipped, mostly at edges, oblong 8vo, [c.1890].

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