Dec 08, 2009 - Sale 2199

Sale 2199 - Lot 240

Price Realized: $ 6,480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(JAPAN) tamamura, k.
Beautiful album containing 60 views of Japan, including lush landscapes, geishas, sumo wrestlers, studies of gardens and temples, sweeping views, street scenes and occupationals. Hand-colored mounted albumen prints, each approximately 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm), and the reverse, many with the caption in English and inventory number in the negative. Oblong folio, black laquer with gilt birds, landscapes and a formal portrait of an unknown gentleman on the front cover; all edges gilt; in the original cloth-covered clamshell box with Tamamura's name. Circa 1890s