A COLLECTION OF EARLY JAPANESE AND CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHS

A COLLECTION OF EARLY JAPANESE AND CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHS

19TH AND 20TH CENTURY

Comprising: four Japanese albums, two containing Yokohama shashin (early Japanese photographs), with staged studio images and views of Japan, some albumen silver hand-tinted pictures; and two containing Japanese postcards and other paper ephemera; one album of Chinese views; together with a collection of stereoviews of Japan, and a stereoscope. (a lot)

Provenance: an Irish private collection, Dublin.

PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE.