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419 - Japan Japanese lacquer album containing 50 original coloured…
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Estimate €500 - €750
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Description
Japan Japanese lacquer album containing 50 original coloured photographs (albumen prints). c. 1880. Landscape 8°. Black lacquer album with gold-embossed, illustrated front cover (fan-fold binding) (slightly bumped). The coloured photographs, mounted on boards, measure approx. 9 x 13.5 cm or 13.5 x 9 cm each. City views with place names: Tokyo, Kobe, Yokohama, Hakone, Kyoto, Island Sea, Hanedamura, Tsurum. Some cities feature multiple views. – The photographs are partly somewhat faded, occasionally slightly stained. A decorative photo album featuring numerous photographs of Japanese cities with many people in the background. The black lacquer album has a gold-embossed illustrated front cover. It appears to show two fishermen with ivory heads in front of a stylised Mount Fuji near Tokyo. The leporello album measures approximately 15 x 20 cm. The colour photographs mounted on boards measure approximately 9 x 13.5 cm or 13.5 x 9 cm each. The city views include the following place names: Tokyo, Kobe, Yokohama, Hakone, Kyoto, the Sea of Japan, Hanedamura and Tsurum. Some of the cities are depicted from multiple angles. The album is in leporello format, with one photograph on both the front and back of each fold. It contains a total of 50 photographs. The album shows signs of wear; the corners and edges are bumped. The mounted photographs are partly faded, and some are slightly stained.
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About the sale Valuable books, prints, historical photographs
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Auction time 10/24/2026 at 10:00 AM
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