Title printed in gilt on upper cover : Karafuto shinrin Shashin chō 樺太森林写真帖 Photo Album of Sakhalin Forest

by Sakhalin Island

$3,250 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

137 tipped-in photographs each 105 x 149 mm. , with printed legends pasted beneath, on thick boards covered in gray paper. Oblong folio 323 x 450 mm. , orig. flexible boards, sewed together with thick decorative green cord. Sakhalin Island or Japan : 1912-30. A fine and rare photographic record of Sakhalin Island. Ownership of the resource-rich Sakhalin Karafuto Island, located at the far eastern end of Russia and north of Japan, passed

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