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RARE ORIENTAL BOOK CO., ABAA, ILAB, Aptos, CA, U.S.A.
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AbeBooks Seller since 19 June 1997
Arlington [1904], Underwood. Cloth covered box, book case, 100 sterographic photographs,very clean, English text, capt- ions in French, German, Spanish, Swedish & Russian, COMPLETE clean set, seldom found with the cloth book case.S C A R C E A photographic record of Japan and her people. . Covering all aspects of life, travel, scenery, people at work & play, the Rickshaw man, children, Yokohama, Tokyo, Nagasaki, a travel guide, temples, fishermen, blacksmith, farmers, Kamakura and the Great Buddha, pilgrims, Mt. Fuji, mountain climbers, the home of Count Okuma, Bonzai, busy street scenes, weavers, castles, fortune tellers, potter, cloisonné makers, tea pickers, Count Okuma, gardens, Nara, Kyoto, Kobe, Hiroshima, Miyajima, Kintai bridge, Nagasaki, agriculture, tea ceremony & flowers. . And also Buddhist art & architecture, bamboo, volcanoes, castles, making and decorating of enamels & ceramics plus a host of other photographic views of the Japanese. . Each of these stereo cards has an individual number from 1-100, as issued with copious English text on the back side and on the front side as a brief caption. We may also have a period wooden stereo viewer, please inquire. ***. Seller Inventory # 89068202
Title: JAPAN THROUGH THE STEREOSCOPE.
Seller: Camilla's Bookshop, Eastbourne, SX, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Contained in custom made black cardboard box designed to look like two volume book, this collection of 99 stereo cards (should be 100: so one missing) are VG. Undated but circa 1900, the cards are B/W or rather slightly sepia. Slipcase or box has gilt title lettering to spines and there is wear or rubbing consistant with age, to aspects of box edges: but generally the collection is VG. Seller Inventory # 0013998
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