112. Ponting (H.G., photographer ) Japanese Studies, photographic illustrations by Ponting with captions throughout, tissue-guards, light damp-staining affecting lower fore-corner of some ff., original colour-pictorial boards, sewn, edge wear, oblong folio, Yokohama, Kelly Walsh for K.Ogawa, Limited, [c.1906].
est. £200 – £250
A fascinating series of images relating to Japan, predating his more well-known work In Lotus-land Japan [1910]. Ponting is best known as the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole (1910-13).