Various photographers

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Various photographers
Japanese landscapes and portrait studies, 1880s
Album containing fifty hand-tinted albumen prints, each approx. 8 x 10 in., the majority titled and numbered in the negatives, tissue guards, inscribed To My Dear Mother with Fondest Love and Best Wishes for a Happy Christmas From Her Loving Son Alfred Denyer in ink inside front cover, red lacquer boards (back cover partially detached), ivory and gilt onlay (part lacking) depicting a Japanese mother and child standing in a landscape, t.e.g., oblong 4to.

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Views around Kyoto, Nagasaki, Osaka, Tokyo and Yokohama including street scenes, river views and architectural views; portraits of geisha, workers, musicians, an image of a priest and a group portrait of Ainos.

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