Lot 157
Japanese souvenir album. Cover made of shellac and an ivory/mother-of-pearl replica.
Estimate
€ 500
Starting Price
€ 340
Lot:
157
Category:
Geography and work of views
Japanese souvenir album. no place or year 26,4 x 35,5 cm. Album containing 48 colour albumen prints mounted on cardboard, featuring views and social scenes from Japan. Half-leather binding with shellac covers. Ivory/mother-of-pearl replica on the front cover. Enamel painting in black, white and gold. Illustrated endpapers. Gold-edged pages.
(Photographic prints and cardboard boxes with minimal brown edges.)
The images show, amongst other things, parts of Yokohama, Mount Fuji as seen from Yoshiwara, the rice harvest, gardens and a pagoda in Tokyo. They are almost exclusively commercial photographic prints bearing the plate number and title of the photograph.
(Photographic prints and cardboard boxes with minimal brown edges.)
The images show, amongst other things, parts of Yokohama, Mount Fuji as seen from Yoshiwara, the rice harvest, gardens and a pagoda in Tokyo. They are almost exclusively commercial photographic prints bearing the plate number and title of the photograph.