May 15, 2008 - Sale 2146

Sale 2146 - Lot 282

Price Realized: $ 45,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
VON STILLFRIED, BARON RAIMUND & ANDERSEN, HERMANN (active 1876-85)
Album containing 100 photographs depicting "views and costumes of Japan," with a wonderful assortment of gay geishas, stern samurais, corpulent sumos, colorful costume studies, and picturesque topographic views. Hand-colored albumen prints, 8 3/4x11 inches (22.2x27.9 cm.), many with a caption in the negative, and a few with an inventory number. Oblong folio, leather, worn; with a Von Stillfried and Andersen label on the first leaf. Circa 1879
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A few of the images are reproduced in visions of old japan, including "Two Sisters" (70), "Officer" (91), "The Archer" (104), and "Prince in Court Dress" (111).

with--A list of photographs Mr. Tyler purchased from the studio of Von Stillfried and Andersen.