With 72 collotype postcards (some hand-colored) inside thread corners over hand-painted silk sheets, all on 9 decorative cloth covered board leaves; inside covers with hand-colored silk sheets; postcards with printed titles and some with printer's imprint. (Oblong 4to) 10x13½, original decorative lacquered wooden boards with black cloth spine, front cover with hand-colored and carved ivory, bone and mother-of-pearl on-lays showing a nature scene over a black colored background, decorative borders hand-colored in silver, hinges reinforced (as issued).

Handsomely bound Japanese postcard album, originally purchased in Japan at the time President Theodore Roosevelt's "Great White Fleet" was sent around the world from December 16, 1907 to February 22, 1909, which consisted of sixteen new battleships from the U.S. Navy's Atlantic Fleet and others ships in the "Torpedo Flotilla". With the USS Connecticut as flagship under the command of Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, the fleet sailed from Virginia to Trinidad, British West Indies, Rio de Janeiro, Chile, Peru, Mexico, to San Francisco, where Rear Admiral Charles S. Sperry assumed command of the Fleet, continuing to Honolulu, Auckland, NZ, Sydney, Melbourne, the Philippines; Yokohama, Japan, Ceylon, Egypt and Italy. Postcard images include: various flowers and fauna; an Ostrich farm in Pasadena; several from Auckland, NZ: “Haere – Mai: Auckland Squadron Greets the American Fleet”; Oil baths at Whakarewarewa; Tawhao and Mohi (Maori Warrior Chiefs); Wairua Falls; various street scenes, buildings, natives and villages; hunting the giant Moa bird; several building and street scenes of Sydney; official emblems for the U.S. Fleet in Sydney and Melbourne with gilt stamping; some of Victoria, Australia, and more.