Lot Essay
Including four scenes of devastation in villages and of a bridge caused by an earthquake
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KUSAKABE KIMBEI
Japanese landscape and costume portrait album, 1880s
With seventy-one hand-tinted albumen prints, each approx. 8 x 10¼ in., numbered and titled in the negatives, mounted back-to-back with tissue guards, black lacquer boards (upper cover loose and lacking spine), upper cover with ivory and mother-of-pearl onlay (incomplete) depicting , g.e., oblong 4to.
Japanese landscape and costume portrait album, 1880s
With seventy-one hand-tinted albumen prints, each approx. 8 x 10¼ in., numbered and titled in the negatives, mounted back-to-back with tissue guards, black lacquer boards (upper cover loose and lacking spine), upper cover with ivory and mother-of-pearl onlay (incomplete) depicting , g.e., oblong 4to.