JAPAN -- PHOTOGRAPHS -- LACQUER-COVERED JAPANESE photo album. (Japan, c. 1890). W. 50 fine hand-cold. photographs (c. 200 x 265 mm each) under tissue guards on 25 thick cardboard and gilt-edged mounts. Lge-4°-obl. Hcf. bind. covered w. red cherry lacquered wooden sides w. bevelled edges and w. a fine photograph transferred in gold print on wood on the front panel depicting a view on Mount Fuji w. sailing vessels in the foreground. In mod. cloth box, covered w. red felt on the inside. (Bind. rep. (i.a. by adding a new cf. spine, endpapers renewed), extremities of sides a bit dam./scratched in places, photographs & mounts slightly foxed and age-toned/discold. (as often)).
Captions occurring: Festival lanterns, Bentendori Yokohama - Wayside Resting Place - Mississippi Bay near Yokohama - Temple Gate Shiba Tokio - Hotta's Garden at Tokio - Iris Garden, Horikiri, Tokyo - Autumn View of Maples, Tokyo - Wisteria at Kameido, Tokio - Imaichi, Nikko Road - Sacred Bridge, Nikko - Yomeimon Great Gate at Nikko - Interior of Iyemitsu Temple Nikko - Chiusenji Lake & Nantai San, Nikko - View of Haruna - Daibutsu Bronze Image Kamakura - Enoshima - Tamadare Waterfall at Yumoto - Miyanoshita hot spring - Miyanoshita River - Ojigoku or Great Boiling Spring - Hakone village & palace - Fujiyama from Hakone Lake - A Country bridge Fujikawa - Biwa Lake from Miiden - Gion Street Kioto - Mikados' Palace, at Kyoto - Kioto Rapids - Theatre Osaka - Nara - Kobe - Suwayama Hill Kobe - Awaji-Shima inland sea - View of Nagasaki - [Beauty. No title] - Writing letter - Kago, travelling chair - Jinrikisha - Bamboo grove - Planting rice - Silk store - Selling flowers - Playing Samisen Tsudzumi Fuye & Taiko - Girls dancing - Preparing dinner - Eating rice - Tea ceremony - Girls in bed room - Group of children - Washing & starching clothes - Visiting ceremonials.€ 1000
result € 1000