[PHOTOGRAPHS]. [JAPAN, CHINA, PHILIPPINES]. Album of 94 photographs, ca, 1870-80, almost all albumen prints with the majority of the Japanese subjects hand-colored. Included are good genre studies featuring, sumos, geishas, child acrobats, etc., views of Tokyo and Kyoto, scenes and views in Hong Kong and Canton (the most striking of which is a photograph of a Canton execution ground stamp-signed A. Chan on verso), and from the Philippines, a scene of native women smoking and playing cards (a few creases to unmounted prints). Oblong 2o. Half-calf (corners worn).

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[PHOTOGRAPHS]. [JAPAN, CHINA, PHILIPPINES]. Album of 94 photographs, ca, 1870-80, almost all albumen prints with the majority of the Japanese subjects hand-colored. Included are good genre studies featuring, sumos, geishas, child acrobats, etc., views of Tokyo and Kyoto, scenes and views in Hong Kong and Canton (the most striking of which is a photograph of a Canton execution ground stamp-signed A. Chan on verso), and from the Philippines, a scene of native women smoking and playing cards (a few creases to unmounted prints). Oblong 2o. Half-calf (corners worn).

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