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Ponting, H(erbert) G(eorge). Japanese Studies.

Suite of 52 black and white photographs, collotyped by K. Ogawa. All with their tissue guards. 28 unn. leaves in Japanese binding. Oblong 4to. Orig. illus. boards, bound together with 2 ties. – Yokohama, Kelly Walsh Ltd., 1906.

Album containing 52 scenes from Japanese landscapes, customs, and rural life by the British expedition photographer H. G. Ponting (1870–1935), member of the Royal Geographic Society. All photographs were reproduced in collotype technology in the studio of Kazumasa Ogawa (1869–1929) and are accompanied by captions with quotations of British authors. Last leaf (colophon) in Japanese. – Paste-downs with some shadow of glue. Clean copy. – Best.-Nr. 26691