(ASIA AND EGYPT) felice beato et alia Important travel album formerly belonging to William Williams with a total of 85 photographs of Japan, China, India, and Egypt. Includes 31 compelling portraits and picturesque views of Japan by felice beato including the famous self-portrait on the steps of the colossal bronze Buddha of Kamakura and the gruesome execution scene, as well as the tattooed men, studio portraits of geishas, a range of remarkable occupational studies, a total of 18 of which are beautifully hand-colored. Also features 6 unattributed views of China, with houses of worship (pagodas) and The Great Wall; 32 views of India, including pictureque views of Delhi, the Pearl Mosque, Agra, and the Taj Mahal, Benares, and Lucknow, approxiately 20 of which are by Samuel Bourne; and 16 lively small-format Egyptian views of Pt. Said and the Suez Canal by the British photographer Chappuis. Albumen prints, 9 1/4x11 1/2 inches (23.5x29.2 cm.), and the reverse, and smaller, mounted recto only, many with a trimmed caption affixed to mount recto; Bourne's prints with his signature in the plate and Chappuis' with his hand stamp on verso. Oblong folio, 1/2 green morocco with gilt-lettered label affixed to front cover, edgewear; brass clasp; all edges gilt. 1870s
(ASIA AND EGYPT) felice beato et alia Important travel album formerly belonging to William Williams with a total of 85 photographs of Japan, China, India, and Egypt. Includes 31 compelling portraits and picturesque views of Japan by felice beato including the famous self-portrait on the steps of the colossal bronze Buddha of Kamakura and the gruesome execution scene, as well as the tattooed men, studio portraits of geishas, a range of remarkable occupational studies, a total of 18 of which are beautifully hand-colored. Also features 6 unattributed views of China, with houses of worship (pagodas) and The Great Wall; 32 views of India, including pictureque views of Delhi, the Pearl Mosque, Agra, and the Taj Mahal, Benares, and Lucknow, approxiately 20 of which are by Samuel Bourne; and 16 lively small-format Egyptian views of Pt. Said and the Suez Canal by the British photographer Chappuis. Albumen prints, 9 1/4x11 1/2 inches (23.5x29.2 cm.), and the reverse, and smaller, mounted recto only, many with a trimmed caption affixed to mount recto; Bourne's prints with his signature in the plate and Chappuis' with his hand stamp on verso. Oblong folio, 1/2 green morocco with gilt-lettered label affixed to front cover, edgewear; brass clasp; all edges gilt. 1870s
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