Oblong folio (305 x 388 mm). 50 hand-tinted albumen prints, each measuring approximately 10 x 8-in., all mounted on thick card with tissue guards, most with captions in lower margins. Original brown morocco gilt spine, beveled lacquered boards gilt surrounding central inlay of cranes, edges gilt; original silk-padded cloth-lined box with Kozaburo Tamamura attribution (slightly rubbed, one joint broken, a few neat repairs). Provenance: Charles Pratt (1830-1891), American businessman and partner of John D. Rockefeller, founder of the Pratt Institute (monogram on upper cover). 

A fine 19th-century album with photographs depicting most of the major tourist sites of Japan including Mt. Fuji, the shrine at Nikko, shrines in Tokyo Hakkone, the Tokaido road, flowers and tea houses.  From the studio of Kozaburo Tamamura, who was called "the best photographer in Yokohama: (Bennett 52).