Japanese Lacquer Postcard Album with Bone and Mother of Pearl (Nacre) Cover Onlays
by [anonymous]
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Baldwinsville, New York, United States
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About This Item
1900. Japanese Lacquer. Very Good. Oblong Quarto. Large Japanese Lacquer postcard album with bone and mother-of-pearl onlays. Undated, circa 1900. With 22 total postcards, 18 of which are hand-colored collotype postcards, 2 are actual black and white photographs, most measuring 3½"x5½" and are laid into 6 thick leaves with silk covers, each hand-painted with flower prints in watercolor. (Oblong 4to) 9¾x13¼, Japanese lacquer album in black, front cover with carved bone & mother of pearl inlays, showing a Japanese man rowing a boat and transporting two Japanese women, black leather spine. Collection of hand-colored postcards of the Nagasaki area. All inside surfaces and end papers are of silk and hand painted with soft colors and a delicate hand, showing country-side huts, rivers, lakes, birds, and sprays of flowers. Each page is prepared to accept 4 post cards, with orange threads intact. The hand-colored postcards are over a collotype photograph, some are with messages and have early postmarks, most not used. Showing a wide variety of Nagasaki views, including: temples, street scenes, the Mogi hotel, Holy Bronze Horse at Suwa temple, Isenomiya, Inasa and Kotaji temples, Inasa Church; coal being loaded on a foreign vessel at Nagasaki port, plus a U.S. Army transport being loaded by a hoard of workers. A fascinating look at Nagasaki in the late nineteenth century. A nice addition to any collection. Front cover lacking a piece of the carved bone near the middle of the boat of which one of the women appears to have been holding, possibly a musical instrument or just part of the boat. Condition: Spine had been damaged, has been repaired; light wear to album edges, mild rubbing (slightly affecting hand-painted decorative margins); crack in lacquer on back cover; faint foxing to silk pages, paper residue on front inside cover, some of the postcards with minor edge wear; a clean and bright piece; about very good overall. See sample scans. LBB-B
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- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000186
- Title
- Japanese Lacquer Postcard Album with Bone and Mother of Pearl (Nacre) Cover Onlays
- Author
- [anonymous]
- Format/Binding
- Japanese Lacquer
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1900
- Size
- Oblong Quarto
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ephemera;
Terms of Sale
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Singularity Rare & Fine
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Baldwinsville, New York
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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