?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(ASIA AND THE AMERICAS) Travel album with more than 180 exotic cartes-de-visite portraits and landscapes of the Philippines, Japan, China, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Java, and India in addition to approximately 10 of South Africa and Brazil plus copies of racist illustrations and texts. Most of the pictures with handwritten or letterpress captions below the window mounts. With 16 portraits of Chinese figures (in China and in India), and 48 of Japanese subjects, many of the Japanese studies are hand-colored. Folio, red morroco, worn, single brass clasp (second is missing); all edges gilt. 1870s
