LONDON.- Fascinating and historically important early photographs of the Japanese city of Yokohama in the 1860s by the renowned Italian/British father of photojournalism, Felice Beato, are to be offered at Bonhams India and Beyond sale in London on 5 October. The Beato images show the rapid development of the old fishing village after a port was opened there in 1859 when Yokohama became the base of foreign trade in the country and effectively Japan’s window on the world. The prints have pencilled comments by the unknown compiler who seems to have put the album together for an acquaintance of a Mrs Fraser, presumed to be the wife of Jack Fraser of Fraser & Co, a tea exporter. Among the highlights are a three print panorama of Yokohama taken sometime in 1863 or 1864. The scribbled notes identify the British Gun Boat, HMS Conqueror, which was on station at that time and also mention the burning of the British Consul-Genera