Search Results: 19th Century Photography from Charles Agvent

[1880s]. First Edition. Hardcover. Photographs Very Good to Near Fine with good contrast. Moderate wear to binding but front hinge is broken with cover still attached. Over all Very Good. Oblong folio album (15" x 11") in morocco-backed olive wood panels with a carved Jerusalem cross and inlaid border containing a letterpress title and 48 large (@9" x 11") albumen photographs with caption and photographer's credit in the negative, mounted recto/verso to stiff printed album cards, all protected with tissue guards. Attractive Nineteenth-century tourist album of Zangaki brothers' photography compiled for sale at Boulos Méo's antique and souvenir shop at the Jaffa Gate of Old City Jerusalem. Best known for their photographs of Egypt, the Greek Zangaki brothers also documented the construction of the Suez Canal with their photographs as well as scenes in Palestine, as in this album. Images include the Wailing Wall, Jaffa Gate (Bab el-Khalil), Church of the Flagellation, Gethsemane, Mount Olive, Al-Aqsa… Read More

Gettysburg, PA: W. C. Darrah, (1981). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a price-clipped, Near Fine dustwrapper. Red cloth; [6], 221, [1] pages. Illustrated with many photographs. Essential reference for cartes de visite photographs. SIGNED by the author on the title page.

Vienna: Helm, [1868]. First Edition. Photograph. Just a bit of fading to the images. Near Fine and scarce. Six 8-1/8" x 5-1/2" albumen photographs on 12-3/4" x 9-3/4" mounts of various towns in Austria and Germany: Spitz, Persenbeug, Strudel, Passau, Weiteneck, and Grein, all from DONAU-ALBUM by Helm of scenes along the Danube. The complete album contained anywhere between 20 and 35 images and has auction records as high as 5000 Euros. Amand Helm was born in 1831 in Teplice (now Czech Republic). His photographic career began in 1861 in Prague. In 1864 he exhibited his landscape photographs and photographs on porcelain at the Vienna Photographic Exhibition. He first published the DONAU-ALBUM in 1868.

New York: McGraw-Hill, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Quarto, 599 pages. A new revised and expanded edition of this monumental reference work, illustrated with 390 photographs and engravings.

@1892. Hardcover. Cardboard pages in album have a slight wave; prints have light toning along edges and light silvering, a few prints with light soiling and foxing affecting content; all prints have good exposure. Heavy fraying and wear to covers, spine dry with moderate chipping and a tear along one edge. Covers Fair but overall the photographs themselves are Very Good. Oblong Folio (13-1/2" x 10-1/2") in worn decorative cloth over heavy wooden boards and leather spine, with tissue guards for the photos. A personalized travel album from 19th century Japan with 50 hand-colored 10" x 7-5/8" albumen photographs laid down onto heavy cardboard pages with titles in the negative and occasionally in manuscript below the image (all in English). This was the album of Frank Leslie Coombs (1853-1934) who was a United States Minister (ambassador) to Japan from June 1892 to August 1893. Most images found within this album depict peaceful scenes of landscapes, temples, tea houses, and roads. Five images, however,… Read More

@1892. Hardcover. Photographs are Fine and bright with tissue guards. Both boxes in nice shape. The front cover of the album with a horizontal crack about 3 inches from the bottom and extending across most of the cover doing little to detract from the lovely decorative scene. Overall a beautiful example, uncommon in such nice condition. Oblong Folio (14" x 10-1/2") with a black morocco leather spine with gilt designs and exquisite black enamel painted and onlaid covers. Containing 50 hand-colored 10-1/4" x 7-3/4" albumen photographs laid down onto heavy cardboard pages titled in the negative in English and with small color drawings of figures in the margins of each page. Images include cityscapes, landmarks, and scenes of daily life and rituals in mid-to-late Meiji period Japan. Places shown include Tokyo, Kyoto, Yokohama, Nagoya, Enoshima, the shrines of Nikko, and two views of Mt. Fuji. Occupational scenes include women spinning cotton, men striking wheat, a rice plantation, men transporting rice… Read More

@1880s. Framed Photograph. Not examined out of the frame but appears to be Fine. Fine portrait of Emerson, image size 8-1/2" x 12-1/2" matted and framed to an overall size of 15" x 20". On the rear of the frame are two labels from Holman's Print Shop of Boston, circa 1940, on which is stated the following: "This photograph was in J. J. Hawes' studio at the time of his death and was stored with the rest of the contents until 1934, when it came to us for sale. It is a photographic copy of a daguerreotype portrait made by Mr. Hawes in the 1840's. The negative was a collodion-process plate ('wet plate'). This print could have been made as late as the 1890's, but more probably dates from the 1880's. When Mr. Hawes made the copy of the daguerreotype is not known." Southworth and Hawes produced some of the finest daguerreotypes of the 19th Century. Among their subjects, besides Emerson, were John Quincy Adams, Zachary Taylor, Daniel Webster, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Hawes died… Read More

n.p.: Sam Alexander, 1880. Second Edition. Hardcover. Images generally clean with some foxing to margins and to tissue guards; hinges reinforced with cloth tape. Binding rubbed and worn but still quite presentable. Very Good. Quarto (9" x 11-1/2") in publisher's gilt-decorated morocco leather, with modern rebacking retaining most of the original spine and tinted lithographic title page with onlaid collotype photographic portrait of Sir Bartle Frere, the book's patron; [x], 56 pages with 50 stiff card leaves containing 100 collotypes mounted as pairs on rectos and versos. The photographer, Robert Harris of Port Elizabeth, captured views of all the major South African cities and towns as well as views in Mozambique, Zanzibar, and Zululand. Among the subjects are diamond fields, people, and landscapes.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Some rubbing to binding, but Near Fine, contents bright. Bound in full, blind-stamped publisher's black morocco leather and illustrated with a carte-de-visite photograph of the author by P. Gutekunst tipped to the verso of the front free endpaper, likely as issued; 179 pages. The only copy of this book we were able to locate, at Brown University, makes no mention of a photograph. Includes at least two poems touching upon photography--"A Group of Cartes-de-Visite" and "Lines on a Photographic Group of Authors."

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Toning, particularly to plates with floor plans, many with some small stains, mostly to margins; split at front joint, occasional loss of small pieces of cloth at extremities. Very Good. Large folio (19" x 13-1/2") in original gilt-lettered cloth. Three preliminary leaves, 31 photo-lithographic plates (most with two tints applied by stencil, with gold-printed frames and captions), and 21 floor plans. A visual record of the country residences owned by wealthy New Yorkers between upper Manhattan and Dobbs Ferry produced on the eve of the Civil War, containing images based on photographs taken by A.A. Turner during the late 1850s, this is generally considered to be the first large-scale work to use the process of photo-lithography in the United States.

Venice: Campo S. Maurizio, [@1880]. Photographs. A bit of light soiling to the mats; the paper holder a bit soiled and worn. The images are bright and Fine. Carlo Naya. A total of 12 large hand-colored albumen photographs, measuring 14" x 10-1/2" mounted on 25" x 19" stiff paper and housed in a paper folder printed and decorated in black. Each photograph is meticulously hand-colored and all but one captioned in ink in the lower left corner. Included are Piazza San Marco (numbered 48 in the negative), Palazzo D'Oro, Canal Grande Ponte Di Rialto, San Giorgio Maggiore, Foscari Palazzo Giustinian Canal Grande (numbered 252 in the negative), Rio della Guerra (numbered 105 in the negative), Riva degli Schiavoni (numbered 93 in the negative), Ponte Dei Sospiri [Bridge of Sighs] (numbered 9 in the negative), Tintoretto's Il Paradiso in the Palazzo Ducale, Interior of the Basilica San Marco (numbered 131 in the negative), Mosaics in Basilica San Marco (numbered 57 in the negative), and Basilica di Santa… Read More