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Lot#4

Lottitle: KIMBEI, KUSAKABE (1841-1934) Album containing 50 delicately hand-colored photographs of Japan, including lovely landscapes,
Est. Price: 3000 - 4500 USD / 2284 - 3426 €
Real. Price: - / -

Description

KIMBEI, KUSAKABE (1841-1934) Album containing 50 delicately hand-colored photographs of Japan, including lovely landscapes, detailed urban scenes, temples, geishas, merchants, and even a wedding ceremony. Hand-colored mounted albumen prints, each approxmately 8x10¼ inches (20.3x26 cm.), and the reverse, nearly all with an inventory number in the negative and all but one with a typed caption label, in English, on the mounts below the image area. Oblong folio, rebound? in blue cloth with applied decorative elements, partially detached from the text block; with a faint Kimbei stamp, a Yokohama stamp, and the original owner's inscription and date, in ink, on the front free endpaper; all edges gilt. 1887

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2/23/12 - 2/28/12
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