£300 - £500
Japan. A concertina album of 52 photographs, n.d., Meiji period c1870-1880, hand-coloured sepia photographic prints, recto with 26 studio portraits of Japanese ladies, wearing traditional dress and in some cases taking tea, making music, etc., verso with 26 further images illustrating real domestic Japanese life, street scenes, landscapes and topography, a Buddhist shrine, further architecture, etc., tipped onto card leaves, some tissue-guards remaining, contemporary cloth over bevelled softwood boards, oblong 8vo
The images mostly good, some fading, discolouration and browning. Worn binding but holding well.
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