76/4423 [Japan]. Album containing 50 mounted handcol. albumen prints, ±1880, each 19,5x24,5 cm., w. manuscript captions in English below, 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. cl. box.

- Sl. foxed. Upper corner frontcover sl. bumped w. a few tiny chips along outer edge. Cloth box dustsoiled and lacks bone clasp; a few torn spots in cloth. Otherwise in a very fine condition.

= Splendid lacquer album containing nice streetviews and landscapes in/ surrounding i.a. Yokohama and Tokyo, "Fuji from Tokaido", "Yokohama Bay", "Pier Yokohama", "RR Station Yokohama", "Cherry blosom Tokyo", "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 L.