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Japan.- Photograph Album, 99 hand-coloured albumen prints on 50 leaves, comprising portraits of workers and labourers, views and street scenes including Tokyo, Nagasaki, Kyoto, Kamakura, Nikko, Yokohama, Mount Fuji, teahouses, bathing places, and many temples and religious sites, each c. 210 x 270 mm. (8 1/4 x 10 3/4 in), mounted on both sides of cream card leaves with typescript captions within each photograph, interleaved with tissue, contemporary lacquer covers, upper cover with scene of two women in an interior, the faces of the woman and rickshaw puller of inlaid carved bone pieces, a little rubbed, spine detached but present within the album, oblong 4to, [circa 1890].

Description

Japan.- Photograph Album, 99 hand-coloured albumen prints on 50 leaves, comprising portraits of workers and labourers, views and street scenes including Tokyo, Nagasaki, Kyoto, Kamakura, Nikko, Yokohama, Mount Fuji, teahouses, bathing places, and many temples and religious sites, each c. 210 x 270 mm. (8 1/4 x 10 3/4 in), mounted on both sides of cream card leaves with typescript captions within each photograph, interleaved with tissue, contemporary lacquer covers, upper cover with scene of two women in an interior, the faces of the woman and rickshaw puller of inlaid carved bone pieces, a little rubbed, spine detached but present within the album, oblong 4to, [circa 1890].

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