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Cataloged Estate Auction featuring Meridian Street Collections

September 30, 2007

Lot: 3309Lot: 3311

Japan Captain Brinkley Complete 15 Folio Set 1897
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Japan Captain Brinkley Complete 15 Folio Set 1897		LOT 3310

Japan Captain Brinkley Complete 15 Folio Set 1897



Estimate: $300 - $600
Realized: $350

Japan, Described and Illustrated by Eminent Japanese Authorities and Scholars; Captain F. Brinkley; Complete 15 section set 1897-98; J.B. Millet Company, Boston & Tokyo. Ogawa, K. Tamamura, 260 illustrations (including 30 albumen hand colored and 15 color collotypes of flowers by Kazumasa Ogawa), 382 (doubled) pages. This version is not given an edition name nor is edition # stated. The plates, (60 separate pages) are not numbered or included in the page count. No table of contents or listing of the photographs as found in the hardbound named editions. Cloth bound soft cover folio; (12 1/2" x 15 3/4"). Wear to binding throughout, separated cover on Section V. Overall good to very good.