May 21, 2015 - Sale 2385

Sale 2385 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 11,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
(JAPAN)
An elegant trio of travel albums with numerous hand-colored photographs. Together, 3 handsome albums with approximately 270 albumen prints, including a snow scene in Yokohama, the pines in Nikko, tea houses in Kyoto, Mount Fuji, a funeral procession, and portraits of geishas, children, and artisans. Hand-colored albumen prints, each approximately 7 5/8x10 inches (19.4x25.4 cm.), and the reverse; tipped into mounted corners recto/verso. Oblong folios with a stabbed and sewn Japanese style binding and embroidered silk at fine ends, 2 with a handwrittten paper label on the backstrip; delicately patterned cloth covers. 1890s