$2,880
Brinkley, Captain Francis, editor (1841-1912) Japan Described and Illustrated . Boston: Millet, [1897]. Ten folio volumes, the Emperor's edition, copy number one of seventy-five, illustrated with sixty full-page hand-tinted albumen photographs, and 200 smaller-format hand-tinted photographs used as text illustrations and mounted; ten collotypes of flowers, and thirty reproductions of Japanese paintings on fabric or special paper; portrait of Emperor Mutsuhito in volume one, bound in full silk bindings, the set multicolored (in red, black, blue, olive, gray, pink, orange, etc.), with elaborate designs woven into the fabric; Japanese-style binding, with two coordinating silk ties holding each volume together; some bindings fraying, some rice paper overleaves torn with loss, generally good, 15 x 12 1/4 in. (10)
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-11-17