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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
(JAPAN) A lovely album with 72 hand-colored photographs depicting the cities, landscapes, sacred sites, and natural beauty of Japan, including Nagasaki, Kobe, Buddhas, Kyoto, Mount Fuji at dusk, Yokohama, and Tokyo, most with figures included. Hand-colored albumen prints, each approximately 7 5/8x10 inches (19.4x25.4 cm.), and the reverse, approximately 55 with captions and inventory numbers in the negative, and 17 with handwritten captions, in ink, on slips affixed to the mounts just below the image; with the original tissue guards, scattered foxing. Oblong folio, matte finish covers with ivory inlay and gilt-highlights depicting a figure pulling a woman in a cart, this cover also with a signature "D. Palumbo Japan July 1893," in gold ink, and the rear cover with a striking representation of Mount Fuji; leather backstrip; all edges gilt; in the original cloth box. 1893
