[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 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

[1870s - 1890s]. Hand-coloured albumen print 20.5 x 26.5 cm tipped to the same-sized card and mounted on an album page 30.3 x 41.7 cm, the studio caption in the negative to the lower right, the print wrinkled with discolouration to the left edge and lower corner, two small tears..... More

[Japan]. (circa 1870s- 1890s). 94 small handcoloured albumen photographs all approx 8.6 x 13.4 cm (most in landscape), many with studio captions and numbers, in faded but sound condition. A remarkable assemblage; with many studies of geisha, portraits, scenes of rural and traditional life including a few of wrestlers, samurai..... More

(circa 1910). Group of 21 gelatin silver photographs mostly 8 x 10cm format, some 13.5 x 8.5cm, mounted on 3 double sided album pages, from a disbound album. Handwritten captions identify some people in the photographs. All in good condition. Page size is 30 x 25.5cm. A fascinating set of..... 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

[circa 1872]. Five hand-coloured albumen prints from an original souvenir album: the portraits each approx 13.2 x 9 cm and the landscape 20 x 25.9 cm, three of the images with studio numbers in the negative, tipped to an album leaf, 30.2 x 37.5 cm, edged in embossed gilt silk..... More

Port Said, Egypt. [circa 1890]. Large format albumen print photograph, 22 x 28 cm, captioned and signed in the negative, mounted on an album leaf (browned and spotted), 26.5 x 35 cm, the head of the photograph a trifle foxed, but with good tone. Attractive large format photograph likely from..... More