= Remarkable collection of photographs, seemingly from one and the same source (prob. Adolf Seubert, a German forest ranger on Java in service of the Dutch colonial authorities (and father of actress Lil Dagover), with his passport for a trip to Europe loosely inserted). Contains, apart from several forest views related to Seubert's profession, numerous beautiful scenery views, images of stately colonial homes (incl. group portraits), Javanese people (fishermen, merchants etc.) and a few early detailed photographic images of Prambanan Temple. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXVII.
- New endpapers.
= The photographs show the students of the agricultural college (prob.) in Sukabumi in their class rooms and in the fields.
= Dutch colonial family albums. Locations include i.a. Bandoeng, Semarang, Sarangan and Bali. One album titled "Nieuwe Tjandiweg No.13", containing nice interior views of the typical Dutch colonial home of the period.
= Besides the use of various techniques, the subject-matter and the compositions of the photographs show that the maker had artistic inclinations. Some of the places depicted: Ngawi, Soko, Gendingan, the lake of Sarangan, kampongs in the Sarangan valley, villa Rust-Oord at Plaosan, the Merapi volcano. I.a. cows being herded, people near a well, people harvesting,
WITH: 18 loosely inserted photographs (various techniques) probably by the same photographer, showing i.a. a series of women and children washing clothes and themselves near a small waterfall and 2 photographs showing Dutch officers (i.a. "F. Baes Lutjens 1e Luit. der Cav.ie") in action at a horse jumping event at the Papandojanlaan in Bandung.
- A few slides defective. = I.a. cremations and ritual dances on Bali, cock fights, dajaks and kampungs.
= Views of probably mostly Java, i.a. village scenes, the planting, harvesting and processing of suger cane, (group) portraits, river/ beach scenes and the Borobudur.
- Mount sl. soiled in margins.
AND 9 other albumen views of Verona, i.a. a view of the Piazza Erbe and the Santa Maria Antica.
- Colophon leaf sl. foxed. Otherwise fine.
= Colophon reads: "Moi, Melkie, servante de J.C. et reine des Arméniens, j'ai donné (...) ce livre des Evangiles, à Notre Dame de Varak, que j'ai bâtie par mes mains et mes frais (...)." One of the photographs shows a (hand?)col. photographic reproduction of a portrait of Byron, who visited the monastery in 1816.
- Mounts sl. foxed (prints fine). Upper outer corner of frontcover a few tiny chips. Silk on box dustsoiled and lacks bone clasp; a few torn/ worn spots in silk (esp. along margins). Otherwise in a very fine condition.
= Splendid lacquer album containing nice streetviews and landscapes in (the surroundings of) i.a. Yokohama and Tokyo, "Fuji from Tokaido", "Yokohama Bay", "Pier Yokohama", "RR Station Yokohama", "Shinbashi Bridge" and "Takinogawa near Tokyo" (both by Kozaburo Tamamura), "Cherry blosom Tokyo" (online identification: Wayside resting place at Mukojima), "Imperial Hotel, Tokyo", "Shiba Temple Tokyo", "Takinogawa near Tokyo", "Mississippibay Yokohama", "near Enoshima", "Kamakura", "Under Fuji", "Yumato, Hakone", "Miyanoshita" and "Hakone Lake". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXVIII.
- Each doubled; 1x w. sm. damage in lower right corner.
= Incl. scenes of daily life (i.a. Farmers in boats in front of Mount Fuji, Bijin drinking tea, calligraphing or playing koto) sumo wrestlers and a flower salesman.
- Cardboard box (sl.) browned and dam.; envelopes mostly sealed due to age. Cards themselves are fine.
= Small wooden cards w. the size of business cards in 12 different designs, each showing a Meiji/ early Taisho period photograph of famous sites in Japan. These include Mount Fuji, The "floating" torii at Mitsukushima Shrine, Kinkakuji (The Golden Pavilion) in Kyoto and the Meoto-Iwa (Married Couple Rocks) off the shore of Ise, as well as some pictures of fishermen with their boats, and women dressed in kimono strolling through a garden.
- Two photographs w. cut in left margin of the image; photographs occas. loose(ning). Nevertheless in near fine condition.
= This dummy is almost identical to the publication Kalypso & Nausikaä (Amst., 2004), only without the text and with a few small changes in the order of the stamp sized images. This dummy provides a good insight in the production process of Kando's iconic photographic story of the chapters 'Kalypso' and 'Nausikaä' from Homer's Odyssee, an early photo-graphic story with and for children. This lot is subject to 4% resale royalties ('droit de suite') over the total amount of hammerprice and buyer's premium. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXVI.
- All prints dustsoiled on verso.
- One small crease. = Later, 2009(?) impression.
- Lid sl. scratched; bottom of box w. plastic shrinkwrap still sticking to it. Otherwise fine.
= SIGNED and blindst. copy of the DELUXE EDITION, kept in orig. perspex box w. sliding lid, together w. 6 original photographs, each ±18x23 cm., all w. the photographer's blindstamp and signed "N. Koster 2/4 EA" in black felt tip pen, under passepartouts. Prints of the unearthed lost negatives of the photographs taken by Nico Koster at a private session with John Lennon and Yoko Ono during their stay at the Hilton Hotel Amsterdam, where the couple spent their honeymoon in bed to make an artistic plea for peace against the war in Vietnam.