Japanese Postcard Album with Lacquered Cover and Hand-Colored Real Photo Postcards
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good -
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Japan, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good -. 15 x 20 cm. album containing 52 postcards, 47 of them hand-colored. Black lacquer boards; front board illustrated with scene of a woman and a man painted in gilt and red. None of the postcards have been used and none have dates of publication. Some of the cards were produced by Tonboya in Yokohama; the firm was actively publishing hand-colored postcards from about 1910 to about 1930. The first postcard is a view of Mt. Fuji with a foreground illustration painted in gilt and black. The next two are portraits of Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken in black with a gilt emblem above each of their heads. The hand-colored views are of streets scenes, temples, and parks in Yohohama, Kamakura, Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara, and Kamata; a number include geishas. There are two views of women in Yoshiwara. A complete list is available on request. In Very Good- Condition: front board is detached and is chipped along the lower edge and upper corners; color is bright on front board; postcards are clean and bright, without chipping.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005262
- Title
- Japanese Postcard Album with Lacquered Cover and Hand-Colored Real Photo Postcards
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Place of Publication
- Japan
- Date Published
- 1910
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ephemera; Travel & Exploration; Women's History & Biography; Africa, Asia, & Middle East;
Terms of Sale
Classic Books and Ephemera
If the item is not as described, the buyer must contact us within 72 hours of their receipt of it. We will refund the full amount with the costs of return shipping within 24 hours of receipt of the item.
About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
Biblio member since 2006
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
About Classic Books and Ephemera
We have a large stock, focusing primarily, but by no means exclusively, on 16th- to mid-19th-century books in English, French, and German in the fields of history, travel, and the arts, and children's books; late 19th- and early 20th-century military prints and postcards; and manuscripts, deeds, maps, and printed ephemera of all periods and disciplines.
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