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Various photographers

Japanese landscapes, tradespeople and portrait studies, 1880s-90s

Concertina album containing thirty hand-tinted albumen prints, each approx. 7¾ x 10 in., approx. half titled and the majority numbered in the negatives, tissue guards, black lacquer boards (front cover detached), gilt onlay depicting Japanese fans and vignettes with views, oblong 4to.

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Views incude Nagasaki, Kioto, Osaka, Tokyo, the Tokaido and Nikko; several portraits of Japanese girls in traditional costume; Japanese builders, vendors and an outdoor view of boys with a horse on Enoshima Island.

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