[Japan]. (Circa 1890s). Photograph album, black lacquered boards, elaborately inlaid (with some loss) over quarter calf, bevelled edges, gilt dentelles, endpapers gilt-flecked, all edges gilt, 36 x 27.5cm with 71 hand tinted albumen prints (most captioned with studio stock references), mounted over 25 thick card leaves, 31 full page 27.2..... More

[Egypt?]. [circa 1870s]. Two large format albumen print photographs, 19.5 x 26.3 cm and 20.7 x 26.5 cm, mounted on an album leaf, gilt edges, (one corner bumped and light toning) 26 x 34.2 cm, pale tone, but in very good condition. The upper corner of the architectural print has..... More

Port Said, Egypt. [circa 1880s]. Large format albumen print photograph, 21.7 x 28 cm, captioned and signed in the negative, with a horizontal crease, mounted on thick card (browning, corners bumped, with an edge tear not affecting the image), 26.5 x 35 cm, the print with very good tone. Scarce..... More

[Japan]. (Circa 1907). Carte de visite 8.6 x 5.8cm on a plain card mount 8.9 x 6cm, gilt edges, laid onto a pebbled olive studio card with a blind-stamped frame and rippled edges, gilt- embossed signature of the photographer K. Masuhara at the foot, the portrait slightly scuffed, mount slightly..... More

[circa 1870]. Two large format albumen print photographs, 26.3 x 20.8 cm and 18 x 23.3 cm mounted on an album leaf, gilt edges (spotted and browned at the edges) 26 x 34.2 cm, the landscape scene with pale tone and slightly wrinkled, but the architectural print in very good..... More

[circa 1880s]. Large format albumen print 21 x 26.1 cm, captioned on the negative "633. Kurodani Graves, Kioto", three edge tears and slight wrinkling, but with very good tone, mounted on the original souvenir album card, with coral rule, gilt edges, 29.9 x 41.3 cm, spotted and scuffed with a...... More

(Circa 1905). Hand-coloured albumen print 26 x 20.5 cm, studio caption and number "B 1064" in the negative lower right, the print wrinkled and fading. From the estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker with his pencilled catalogue mark and notation (in Japanese and English). When referring to..... More

Kyoto. Late Meiji? [ 1900?]. Nine mounted studio photographs, the images with some fading and spotting but overall in good condition, the mounts worn and toned a few with occasional spotting: Three (large ensemble groups of women), 21 x 26.5 cms mounted on embossed card, two with the Kyoto studio..... More

No place of publication. No date. (Circa 1910). 50 coloured photographs - each 22.5 x 14.8cm, laid down on dark green 'Arches' type paper bound in padded silk boards, decorated with a pine needle and crane design, silk tassled knots secure the expertly rebacked binding. Original embossed endpapers slightly sunned..... More

Tokyo. [circa 1900.]. Two collotype portraits 25.3 x 19.5 cm, and 25.3 x 18.7 cm, both on sheets approx 39.2 x 28.7 cm, edges of the sheets chipped with tears, but the images very good; together with the remains of the original stab sewn back wrapper "Collotype by K. Ogawa..... More

No date. (circa 1890). 24 large (23 x 29cm) hand coloured silver nitrate and albumen photographs in an attractive pictorial lacquer album, leather spine in compartments - rubbed at the spine, gilt dentelles and inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. Images show some colour breakdown with the colour red highlighted..... More

(Shanghai). (circa 1890). Original albumen print photograph, 19.4 x 27.5 cm, corners a little creased, but in very good condition. Atmospheric image of colonial Shanghai depicting the 'Bubbling Well' and Jing'an Temple (literally 'Temple of Peace and Tranquility'), a Buddhist temple on what is now West Nanjing Road. The first..... More

Rekishi Shashinkai]*. 歴史冩眞會, Taisho 11 [ 1922]. Black and white photographic illustrations and colour illustrations. 30 cm x 22.3cm. No. 112 published on November 1922. No. 115 published on 1 February 1923 - Taisho 12. Some ocassional foxing to margins and covers. The original metal staples which were rusted have..... More