JAPAN -- PHOTOGRAPHS -- LACQUER-COVERED JAPANESE photo album. (Japan, c. 1890). W. 50 fine hand-cold. photographs of beauties (c. 200 x 260 mm each), 16 of which captioned, under hinged 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 3 beauties in rickshaws. (Bind. in need of repair/restoration (spine and sides loose, but preserved), photographs & mounts slightly foxed and age-toned/discold. (as often)).