(Kyoto Gardens)(TAMAMURA, Kozaburo, photographer.)   CHARACTERISTIC GARDENS OF JAPAN.         Kobe, Japan: Takagi Photo Co.,   1921.          A scarce tourist album of 20 hand-colored autotype photographs showing views within both the public and private gardens of Kyoto. Tamamuro specialized in photographing Japanese culture and scenery for publication in albums primarily sold to Western tourists. Takagi worked with and later succeeded him. This particular album is among the scarcest of their publications. No copies are recorded in OCLC, COPAC or KVK.   Oblong album (17.3 x 24.5 cm); colored title, printed colophon + 20 hand-colored autotype plates.            Contemporary silk covered boards, stabbed and tied; front boards detached with old tape residue visible; inner margin of title leaf torn with minor loss and with some tape residue; prior owner's rubber stamp on end sheets. $700.00

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