Album with 25 pasted photographs, ca. 1900

the album itself with 32 firm carboard sheets, with the address "Établissement Bellement Frères", Antwerp, original half morocco, oblong folio.

Contains interesting, unrelated series of photographs: I. Series of 7 anonymous handcoloured photographs with views of Nikko, Japan, each 21x27cm.: "A 26 View of (Oishinoma) from chapel inside (shinto) temple Nikko"; "F 122 Behind view of (Yomeimon) gate shito temple Nikko"; "C 58 The tea house at (Chuzenji) lake at Nikko"; "F 116 (Dainichido) on the way of (Chuzenji) Nikko"; "C 61 The (Chuzenji) lake at Nikko"; "C 64 (Kegon) waterfall at Nikko"; "D 97: View of Nikko". II. Series of 6 photographs concerning Ceylon with blind stamp "Apothecaries Co. Ltd. Photographers, Colombo, Ceylon", each 21x28cm.: a lively street; bird's eye view of Kandy; farmer plowing with waterbuffalos; banana salesman in front of his shop; barges on a canal; beach view with fishermen's boats. III. Series of 6 mountain views by S.J. Thompson, New Westminster, each 18x23cm: "766 Interior of snow shed, Selkirks, C.P.R."; "Cariboo Freight Waggons leaving Ashcroft 338" (zonder adres van Thompson); "Yale B.C. 300"; "At the base of the Great Glacier 377"; "From Great Glacier, showing Glacier House 761"; "Kickinghorse River near Field B.C. 388". Aside from these series one more picture is notable: "Chief "it-in-sa's" [?] house Masschtt.L.C.S." (picture of tourists next to a large wooden Indian home with enormous totem pole).