New York: The New Art Scene: Photographs by Ugo Mulas [ Review Copy with Four Photographs Laid in ] by Text by Alan Solomon; Design by Michele Provinciali - 1967

Paris: Librairie Des Arts Decoratifs, 1927. First Edition . Chemise. Very Good +. 235 x 175 Mm. [12], 24. Plates are 225 x 165 mm. Introductory text, in French, folded sheets, with 24 loose plates, in a paper-covered salmon chemise with off-white paper label, white cloth spine and cloth ties [spine and ties a little aged]. Light wear at corners, tiny area of bumping to upper tips, interior paper of spine is split, but exterior is sound; plates are immaculate and undamaged. No names or marks. Scarce.

With a preface by Théophile Homolle. Translated from the French by Charles Frederic Hardy. First english language edition. 132 pp.+ 40 full-page photogravure plates with printed tissue guards and 86 illustrations in the text. 39x31 cm. Éditions d'Art Fred. Boissonnas, Genève, 1920. There are printed of this work on fine hand-made paper, prepared specially for this edition, 300 copies, of which this copy is No. 15. (Additional postage due to heavy weight) --- François Frédéric Boissonnas, nicknamed Fred (1858-1946) came from a Swiss family of photographers. An enthusiastic trekker, he started out on his journey from Geneve together with his inseparable friend and travel companion, Greek scholar Daniel Baud-Bovy, rector in the Geneva school of Fine Arts. From their first journey in 1903 until 1920, carrying a baggage of stereotypes on Greece passed on by travellers of the previous centuries, they toured and took photographs everywhere, from Epirus to the Peloponnese and from Ithaca to Olympus and… Read More

New York: The Library Fellows at the Whitney Museum of American Art [by Michael and Winifred Bixler Press and Letter Foundry], 1991. Spine faded as often with this book, a few scuffs to cloth, some minor soiling to slipcase. Oblong folio (32.9x42 cm; 13x16½ inches). Beautifully printed in letterpress. [16] pages With 9 mounted chromogenic photographic prints by Tina Barney: 27.7 x3 5.9 cm (11x14¼"). Original turquoise three quarter morocco over cloth; endpapers designed by Sage Reynolds; slipcase. One of an edition limited to 175 copies signed by Barney and Howe. An artist book collaboration between American playwright Tina Howe and American photographer Tina Barney produced as a benefit for the library of the Whitney Museum. An edition in the Artists and Writers Series. The text is a four-person dialogue written by Tina Howe, set on an Atlantic Coast beach in late August. The large-format images manipulate depth of field, and capture people on or around the beach, making the… Read More

Paris: A. Maurice, 1878. Fine. A. Maurice, Paris 1878, 10,6x16,4cm, une photographie. - Grande photographie originale sur papier albuminé, au format carte de cabinet, contrecollée sur un carton fort. Publicité du photographe au dos. Rare photographie de Victor Hugo dans sa maison de Hauteville, dans le fameux salon rouge Renaissance, la pièce préférée de l'écrivain, entièrement conçue par lui. On y voit l'écrivain assis, la main droite dans son gilet. De la pièce on peut voir le grand lustre à gaz, 4 sculptures porte-torchères et un miroir dans le fond. Au début de l'été 1878, Victor Hugo fait une attaque d'apoplexie à Paris et rejoint Hauteville pour sa convalescence durant les mois d'été. Le photographe André prendra alors de lui plusieurs clichés à Hauteville ; l'intérêt de ces photographies est qu'elles ne sont pas des photographies de studio. Les plaques de verre seront récupérés plus tard par Alexandre Maurice qui les tirera en 1891.… Read More

Saint Petersbourg: Vezenberg, 1880. Fine. Vezenberg, Saint Petersbourg s.d. (circa 1880), 6,4x10,7cm, une photographie au format carte de visite. - Rarissime photographie originale sur papier albuminé, au format carte de visite, contrecollée sur un carton du studio Vezenberg à Saint Petersbourg. Cachet en russe en bas du cliché indiquant en cyrillique ""L. Tolstoï"". Nous n'avons pu trouver aucun exemplaire de cette photographie dans les collections publiques. Les photographies de ce géant de la littérature russe sont rares et recherchées. [ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] Photographic portrait of Leo Tolstoy Vezenberg | Saint Petersburg n. d. [ca 1880] | 6.4 x 10.7 cm | one carte-de-visite photograph Extremely rare original photograph on albumen paper, carte-de-visite size, laid on a cardboard of the Vezenberg studio in Saint Petersburg. Stamp in Russian at the bottom of the photograph indicating in Cyrillic ""L. Tolstoy"". We have not fond any… Read More

New York: The Library Fellows at the Whitney Museum of American Art [by Michael and Winifred Bixler Press and Letter Foundry], 1991. Spine faded as often with this book, a few scuffs to cloth, some minor soiling to slipcase. Oblong folio (32.9x42 cm; 13x16½ inches). Beautifully printed in letterpress. [16] pages With 9 mounted chromogenic photographic prints by Tina Barney: 27.7 x3 5.9 cm (11x14¼"). Original turquoise three quarter morocco over cloth; endpapers designed by Sage Reynolds; slipcase. One of an edition limited to 175 copies signed by Barney and Howe. An artist book collaboration between American playwright Tina Howe and American photographer Tina Barney produced as a benefit for the library of the Whitney Museum. An edition in the Artists and Writers Series. The text is a four-person dialogue written by Tina Howe, set on an Atlantic Coast beach in late August. The large-format images manipulate depth of field, and capture people on or around the beach, making the… Read More

London: Richard Griffin and Company, 1861. A lovely near-fine copy, the binding firm and bright. The contents with a previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown and a little spotting to the endpapers, are otherwise clean and fresh throughout. A superb example of a very scarce title. 8vo (21.8 x 15.7 cm). Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to the upper board and spine, gilt to all page edges. Illustrated with 20 mounted albumen prints. FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest works of poetry to be illustrated by photography. The anthology combines extracts from authors including Keats, Clare, Wordsworth, Cowper, and Longfellow, with mounted photographs depicting idyllic scenes of contemporary rural life by the renowned stereographer William Morris Grundy (1806-1859), to create a harmonious interweaving of verse and imagery. Grundy was born in Birmingham, moving to Sutton Coldfield in 1850. Initially taking up photography as a hobby in 1855, he went on to achieve… Read More

Saint Petersbourg: Vezenberg, 1880. Fine. Vezenberg, Saint Petersbourg s.d. (circa 1880), 6,4x10,7cm, une photographie au format carte de visite. - Rarissime photographie originale sur papier albuminé, au format carte de visite, contrecollée sur un carton du studio Vezenberg à Saint Petersbourg. Cachet en russe en bas du cliché indiquant en cyrillique ""L. Tolstoï"". Nous n'avons pu trouver aucun exemplaire de cette photographie dans les collections publiques. Les photographies de ce géant de la littérature russe sont rares et recherchées. [ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] Photographic portrait of Leo Tolstoy Vezenberg | Saint Petersburg n. d. [ca 1880] | 6.4 x 10.7 cm | one carte-de-visite photograph Extremely rare original photograph on albumen paper, carte-de-visite size, laid on a cardboard of the Vezenberg studio in Saint Petersburg. Stamp in Russian at the bottom of the photograph indicating in Cyrillic ""L. Tolstoy"". We have not fond any… Read More

1te. - (4te.) Lieferung. 4 instalments (= all published). Basel und Genf, H. Georg's Buch- und Kunsthandlung (1864 ?). 20 original photographs (albumen – various sizes ca 110 x 180 mm to 225 x 280 mm) mounted onto white cardboards. Loosely contained in publisher's lithographed wrappers, with calligraphed title on front cover and contents on back cover. Folio (450 x 310 mm). Spine of fourth instalment restored, wrappers lightly dust-soiled and with a few short tears in margins. Cf. ADB XL, 460-465 (for Wackernagel) ; not in Heidtmann. Bibliographie der Photographie. Jakob Hoeflinger (1819-1892), was a native from the Black Forest region who emigrated to Swiss and became a photographer around 1853. He established his very successful business in Bale in 1857. His son Albert (1855-1936) took over the company in 1885. In 1896 he sold it to his cousin August Höflinger (1867-1939), who had joined the management the same year as he. From then on, August himself devoted himself to portrait painting. Until… Read More

Boston, Massachusetts:: Eleonora Gomez Bas,, 2002.. One-of-a-Kind. 8" x 8.25" x 1.25"; containing 24 35mm black and white photo prints, mounted onto Strathmore Bristol cardstock. All photographs taken using Canon A1 and Canon Rebel SLR cameras, with Kodak T-MAX 400 film. Bound in cloth boards with titles printed on front cover. Laid in black glossy box with paper title label on cover. Elenora Gomez Bas: "I made this book at North Bennet Street School (Boston, MA) in 2002. My wish was to give a container to a select group of photos from a trip to 'Valle de la Pascua' (Estado Guárico, Venezuela), and from my hikes up 'El Avila' mountain (Caracas, Venezuela).  "My boyfriend and I went to 'Valle de la Pascua' (a 4 1/2 hour drive from Caracas) in 1999 to visit an altar built for the 'Anima de Pica'-Pica'; (Pica Pica Soul). Legend has it that a man by the name of José Zambrano was once found dead by a Pica-Pica plant (the… Read More