SUTTON, CALDESI & CO., VERNON HEATH and others

Japanese topography and portraits, 1870s

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SUTTON, CALDESI & CO., VERNON HEATH and others
Japanese topography and portraits, 1870s
Album containing sixty-four cartes-de-visite including two sets of duplicates, thirty-three hand-tinted, a few with photographer's printed credit and several titled in pencil on verso, loosely inserted in sixty-four of ninety-six pre-cut window mounts with gilt borders, printed maker's credit G.R. & Co. Patent in gilt on mounts, embossed gilt stamp with retailer's credit C. Asprey. London... inside front cover, brown morocco, gilt clasps, g.e., oblong 8vo.; with two cabinet cards loosely inserted. (3)

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Portraits of a native prince, Japanese musicians, geisha, a Japanese Ambassador, Japanese women in western men's dress, Teddo unmarried ladies, a Japanese officer and family, a Yokohama merchant and family, and several portraits of workers; architectural studies of temples in Osaka and Kyoto and several views of Japanese bridges.

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