Beschreibung:

Japan.- Photograph Album , 72 hand-coloured albumen prints, comprising scenes of geisha, interiors of customs and ceremonies, ladies in rickshaws, a tattooed man, rural and agricultural scenes, views of Tokyo, Nagasaki, temples, harbours, figures bathing etc., all inserted into album of thick card leaves covered in silk hand-painted with birds, flowers and views (4 to each page), a few titled in the negative, most a little faded, contemporary roan-backed red-brown lacquer with decorative covers, upper cover with inset panel of vase of flowers made up of inlaid pieces of bone and mother of pearl, a little rubbed, spine worn and defective, oblong 4to, [1890-1900].