80/4995 [Japan]. Album containing 50 mounted handcol. albumen prints, ±1880, each 19,5x24,5 cm., w. manuscript captions in English below, partly w. captions in the plate, incl. at least one print by Adolfo FARSARI and Kozaburo TAMAMURA, in contemp. polished and gilt calfbacked pict. lacquered album with (on frontcover) three handcol. and gilt illustrations showing a landscape with mount Fuji in the background, a small bird and flowers and a butterfly with flowers, w. a cherry blossom tree in the lacquered background, and (on backcover) a cherry blossom tree in the lacquered background, gilt inside dentelles, obl. folio, a.e.g., in contemp. dec. silk box.

- Mounts sl. foxed (prints fine). Upper outer corner of frontcover a few tiny chips. Silk on box dustsoiled and lacks bone clasp; a few torn/ worn spots in silk (esp. along margins). Otherwise in a very fine condition.

= Splendid lacquer album containing nice streetviews and landscapes in (the surroundings of) i.a. Yokohama and Tokyo, "Fuji from Tokaido", "Yokohama Bay", "Pier Yokohama", "RR Station Yokohama", "Shinbashi Bridge" and "Takinogawa near Tokyo" (both by Kozaburo Tamamura), "Cherry blosom Tokyo" (online identification: Wayside resting place at Mukojima), "Imperial Hotel, Tokyo", "Shiba Temple Tokyo", "Takinogawa near Tokyo", "Mississippibay Yokohama", "near Enoshima", "Kamakura", "Under Fuji", "Yumato, Hakone", "Miyanoshita" and "Hakone Lake". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXVIII.