Japan

A nineteenth-century album of photographs of Japanese landscapes and costume, 50 hand-tinted albumen photographs, captioned and numbered in the plate (each about 8 x 10 3/8 in.; 204 x 264 mm), mounted on album leaves, joined in an accordian-fold and bound in contemporary pictorial lacquer covers; most photographs faded, scattered foxing, covers detached.

A nineteenth-century album of photographs of Japanese landscapes and costume, 50 hand-tinted albumen photographs, captioned and numbered in the plate (each about 8 x 10 3/8 in.; 204 x 264 mm), mounted on album leaves, joined in an accordian-fold and bound in contemporary pictorial lacquer covers; most photographs faded, scattered foxing, covers detached.
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