Felice BEATO
Album photographique - "Native types" Photograph album - Native types : 99 original hand colored photographs of Japanese people
s. d. [1868]|40 x 29.50 cm|relié
Photograph album – «Native types»: 99 original hand colored photographs of Japanese people
[1868] | 40 x 29.5 cm | contemporary half morocco
Superb album containing 99 large format original photographs (21,5 x 27,5 cm) printed on albumen paper, all superbly watercolored by hand. All of the photographs are full-length portraits that have been taken in the studio and outside. Almost all of the pictures have an English caption glued to the opposite left-hand page; these short texts are the work of James William Murray, Assistant Commissioner General in Yokohama.
Contemporary binding in half dark brown morocco, spine in five compartments decorated with blind tooling,
[1868] | 40 x 29.5 cm | contemporary half morocco
Superb album containing 99 large format original photographs (21,5 x 27,5 cm) printed on albumen paper, all superbly watercolored by hand. All of the photographs are full-length portraits that have been taken in the studio and outside. Almost all of the pictures have an English caption glued to the opposite left-hand page; these short texts are the work of James William Murray, Assistant Commissioner General in Yokohama.
Contemporary binding in half dark brown morocco, spine in five compartments decorated with blind tooling,
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