KIMBEI KUSAKABE, Baron Reteniz von Stillfried et al

THE PROPERTY OF THE WILLIAMSTOWN HOUSE OF LOCAL HISTORY

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KIMBEI KUSAKABE, Baron Reteniz von Stillfried et al

Japan, Selected Images (c. 1875-1885)

2 albums, containing 176 albumen prints, the majority hand-colored. 1887-88. Most with title and/or number in the negative; each titled and dated in ink on the mount. Each approximately 8 x 10½in. and the reverse. Each mounted back-to-back. Oblong folio, half red morocco, gilt-ruled, grey moire cloth end papers with affixed library label. (2)

Literature

Pioniere der Kamera, Das Erste Jahrhundert der Fotografie, 1840-1900, Die Sammlung Robert Lebeck, p. 245 for Postrunner, 1885; A World History of Photography, p. 174, fig. 193.

Lot Essay

The albums contain portraits, genre, architectural and topographical images including priests, athletes, geishas, citadels, palaces, pagodas, temples, tombs, gateways, hotels, gardens and parks, cemeteries, monuments, cisterns, bridges and bell towers.