Books and Manuscripts from the Japan Society Library
Sale #L22240
The historic library from the Japan Society, London, includes a collection of illustrated woodblock-printed books on a variety of topics such as Akisato Rito’s Famous Sights of the Old Capital, among over popular illustrated travel guides of the Edo period. Arnoldus Montanus’ Atlas Jappanensis is an example of an early European book published on Japan. Photographic works include albums of albumen prints on Japanese subjects by photographers such as Felice Beato, Hugues Kraff and Tamamura Kosaburo.
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