[ Photographs ] (Travel) Bourne & Shepherd; Kyuichi: et alia A "Grand Tour" album containing more than 125 photographic views from around-the-world, including Italy, France, Japan, China, India, Philippines, U. S. A., New Caledonia, and Australia.

[ Photographs ] (Travel) Bourne & Shepherd; Kyuichi: et alia A "Grand Tour" album containing more than 125 photographic views from around-the-world, including Italy, France, Japan, China, India, Philippines, U. S. A., New Caledonia, and Australia. Highlights include a handsome pair of hand-colored studies of Mutsuhito, the Emperor Meiji and Haru-ko, the Empress of Japan by Uchida Kyuichi, as well as several uncolored lyrical Japanese scenes; 5 views by Bourne & Shepherd of Batavia, Jaipur, Delhi, and Bombay; 5 large- format studies of Italian statuary; several strong Woodburytypes of China, including the Shanghai harbor and the English Bund: a crisp view of San Francisco, with clipper ships visible in the bay; jackson's "Long's Peak"; a 2-part panorama of Nonnuca, New Caledonia and miscellaneous topographic views of Australia and New Zealand; an unusual plein air study of a pair of Maori girls; and much more. Albumen prints and several Woodburytypes, 14.5 x 10.5inches and smaller, mounted one to 6 per page recto/ verso, most captioned on mount recto. Folio, 1/2 morocco, edgewear. 1870s E2000-3000 Should Be Seen given the strength and range of the images. While there are a preponderance of views of Italy and New Caledonia / Australia, the stronger medium-for-mat prints tend to be concentrated in the Asian section of the album.