Jun 06, 2019 - Sale 2512

Sale 2512 - Lot 305

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(JAPAN -- WORLD WAR II PROPAGANDA.) Daitoa Senji Hodo Shashin Roku. Printed preliminary leaf and 40 albumen photographs mounted to cards with printed text sheets tipped to versos. Small 4to format, 10 1/2x7 1/2 inches, original gilt-lettered blue cloth portfolio case with silk ties, minor wear; light foxing to mounts, photographs fine. Japan, December 8, 1942

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Complete series of Japanese propaganda photographs published on the first anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 8th, 1942 (Japan time). Photos include military commanders Terauchi Hisaichi and Yamamoto Isoroku; several images of destruction at Pearl Harbor, the sinking of the Prince of Wales and Repulse, scenes in Singapore, paratroopers, bombers and warships, captured soldiers on the Bataan Death March, and other military engagements of the Pacific Theater.