Meiji Period Photo Album 50 Hand Colored Albumen Photographs.
1890réf. 1915No place Yokohama T. Enami & others no date ca. 1890s. Oblong Folio 12.5" x 15.5" contemporary pictorial black lacquered boards inlaid in relief with bone containing fifty hand-colored albumen photographs measuring generally 7.75 " x 10" mounted recto and verso to 25 thick card leaves with tissue guards interleaved. Forty-four of the images are titled in the negative. Binding worn: spine perished boards and front free endpapers detached boards remarkably well preserved although lacking one small inlaid piece most tissue guards creased and torn mounts with slight wave and sporadic foxing/ soiling 3 photos with minute losses at the edges a few slightly faded or under exposed most fresh and rich in tonal quality. Although quite probably a composite album representing photos from different studios certainly many of the images are from the Yokohama studio of T. Enami. Presents views in Tokyo Nagasaki Kyoto Yokohama and elsewhere featuring architecture temples street scenes ceremonies occupations Geisha etc. Those we've pictured include: "262 Unzen Hot Spring" - "J63 Tea-house at Suwa Park" - "260 Obama" - "Road to Mogi Tagami" - "382 Theatre Street Yokohama"- "315 Fuji from Yoshwara" - "A5 Sacred Bridge" - "L63 Yokohama Park" - "C23 Cutting Rice"- "A102 View of Yokohama" $1250.00 T. Enami & others books
Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB · États-Unis1 500,00 $US≈ 1 342,64 €
