Lot 237
Album: Egypt - India - Sri Lanka - China - Japan - Hawaii - USA, c.1890s/1900s Y
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 6 May 2015 at 12:00 BST
£688
Description
Japanese lacquer album with ivory, bone and mother-of-pearl kingfisher detail containing 60 photographs from Egypt, through Asia and the USA, mostly professional albumen prints, including 20 hand-coloured photographs of Japan, photograph sizes between c.21 x 28cm and c.13 x 9cm
Footnote
Note: A note to the front free endpaper reads "The book & ? are all Japanese work having been bought at the Bazaar Nagasaki."