Hand-Colored Album of Late 19th Century Photographs of Japan 50 ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPHS

by Kusakabe Kimbei, photographer 日下部 金兵衛

$2,000 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller · No longer available

Yokohama : ca. 1880s-1890s . Hardcover. Large oblong quarto. 25 double-sided heavy-stock paper leaves. Luxurious lacquered wood boards, with carved mother-of-pearl onlay in the shape of flowers and cranes on the front cover. Back cover beautifully hand-painted in gilt. Brown leather spine with gilt tooling. Edges of book block in gilt. Gilt dentelles. This unique album contains a total of 50 hand-colored albumen photographs of locations and subjects from around Japan. These

• Binding: Hardcover

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