(JAPAN) kimbei, kozaburo, farsari
Lavish album containing 100 beautifully hand-colored photographs of Japan, including landscapes, street and city scenes, temples, geishas, merchants (including a parasol merchant), and gardens with lovely hanging wisteria blossoms. Hand-colored albumen prints, most approximately 7 1/2x9 3/4 inches (19.1x24.8 cm.), and the reverse, mounted, many with a number and caption, in English, in the negative, light, scattered foxing; with the original tissue guards, slightly foxed and worn. Oblong folio, red lacquer covers with a floral pattern; gilt-leather backstrip, worn and partially detached at the head; all edges gilt. 1880s