JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHS/FN.LACQUER ALBUM-IVORY INLAYS/1890

VERY RARE - SCARCE EDITION
RARE FIRST EDITION.
ORIGINAL HAND PAINTED LACQUERED ALBUM
WITH HAND CARVED IVORY INLAYS
75  HAND COLORED JAPAN PHOTOGRAPHS

JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM

PLACE PUBLISHED: JAPAN. Date published: [c.1890-1900]. Large Oblong Folio. 11.0" x 14.5" Inches. (LxB). Japanese Lacquered Photograph Album containing a Collection of 75 hand-colored photographs, each approx. 3½x5¼, mounted to heavier paper and captioned in letterpress beneath. There are 14 black & white original photo's (early 1900's) at the end of the album.  Includes a very wide variety of scenes including temples, street scenes, merchants, craftsmen, costumes, architectural and the natural beauty of Japan. The pictorial lacquered wooden boards with gilt-stamped dark brown leather spine, front cover elaborately hand-painted scene of rickshaw man pulling woman passenger each with ivory inlay hands and heads (man also with ivory legs and feet, woman’s hair ivory painted black), chiefly gilt coloring, plus orange, brown, black and gray, Mt. Fuji in background, white moiré endpapers, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. A classic work. Complete as issued. There are numerous close-up pictures of the contents given below; please click on them for a detailed description (See Scans below). Please take some time to view the 50+ pictures in detail, in order to gain a full idea of the contents and condition.

A SCARCE PHOTO ALBUM. BOUGHT AT A REPUTED CALIFORNIA AUCTION HOUSE.

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