With 50 hand-colored albumen photographs (8¼x10½"), mounted on card-stock paper, with tissue-guards. (Oblong 4to) 10x13¾, Japanese lacquer album in brown with hand-painted designs in various colors including gold, red, blue, blue-gray, and black, showing two women working by the shoreline near a bridge, both with carved ivory inlays for their feet, hands and faces, with sailboats and Mt. Fuji in the background, hand-painted flower designs on the back cover, gilt-tooled leather spine, beveled edges, hinges reinforced, housed in a decorative folding cloth box with wooden clasp.

A nice perspective on late nineteenth century Japan, with professional photographs; most are captioned in the negative. Scenes include: temples in Nikko and other places, street and park scenes in Tokyo, cherry blossoms, ponds, Yokohama, Mt. Fuji, boats, islands, bridges, gardens, waterfalls, a woman playing the "Koto," a dry goods store with rugs and screens, dancing, tea ceremony, a Kobe restaurant, various women in fancy dress, a woman being pulled on a rickshaw, and more.