Lot Essay
Views around Yokohama, Nagasaki, Tokyo, Hakone and Kyoto; portraits of geisha, tradespeople and a back view of a tattooed man sitting on a straw basket.
Details
Various photographers
Japan and St. Petersburg, 1880s-early 1900s
Album containing fifty hand-tinted albumen prints, each approx. 8 x 10 in., the majority titled and numbered in the negatives, inscribed in ink J.L. Coran 1936 on front blank, red lacquer boards, depicting a Japanese river scene, gilt onlay (front cover detached), oblong 4to.; with an album containing twenty Photochrom process prints, oblong 4to. (2)
Japan and St. Petersburg, 1880s-early 1900s
Album containing fifty hand-tinted albumen prints, each approx. 8 x 10 in., the majority titled and numbered in the negatives, inscribed in ink J.L. Coran 1936 on front blank, red lacquer boards, depicting a Japanese river scene, gilt onlay (front cover detached), oblong 4to.; with an album containing twenty Photochrom process prints, oblong 4to. (2)