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[RUSSIA-CHINA-JAPAN]. Album of a trip on the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1906-1908. S.l., [1908]. In-4 Italian style, Japanese stitching of the time, green cloth covers with gold woven flowers and foliage patterns (worn edges). 142 photographs, mostly original (some reprints), various sizes, sepia or black and white (1 colored) on albumen paper pasted in full on double green bristol sheets, with ms. captions in red ink. Some prints slightly faded, otherwise well preserved. A journey made by a Belgian commercial engineer, attached to the Compagnie internationale des wagons-lits, a famous Franco-Belgian company which was the originator of the Orient-Express and which launched the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to China and Japan via Siberia. Very interesting views of the Trans-Siberian train (with some views of a derailment), of the Irkutsk agency, of Kiev ("Kieff"), Odessa, Peking (party at the temple of the Lamas, picnic at the Summer Palace, the legations, boarding of the mandarins at the station, courtyard of the French barracks...) Two thirds of the album are devoted to Japan, in particular the cities of Kamakura and Yokohama: street scenes, interior scenes (women in kimono, men posing in uniform, saber in the clear...), views of the port, rickshaws, sampans, moments of relaxation in the company of geishas in Honmoku, "snapshots" and "snapshots", "Russian shells", views of a cruiser, procession, house hit by an earthquake, etc. Many portraits of the traveler (sometimes in kimono) with friends, relatives, colleagues, etc. ENCLOSED, BY THE SAME: - JAPAN. Album of a stay in Japan. S.l., [c. 1905]. In-4 Italian style, period Japanese stitching, covers of wine-red cloth with gold woven flowers and birds (elbows and corners worn, part of spine cracked). 77 photographs, mostly original (some reprints), various sizes, black and white on albumen paper (2 prints on bluish paper) pasted in full on grey bristol sheets, uncaptioned. Picturesque scenes and testimonies of the daily life of Westerners in the land of the Rising Sun: horseback riding, relaxing alone or in a group (amazing scenes of acrobatic figures in "sporty" clothes), indoor scenes with geishas, street scenes, view of Mount Fuji, beach scenes, fishermen, processions, drunken cruise, etc. SET OF 2 ALBUMS.
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