Search Results: Europe from Charles Agvent

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.

London & New York: MacMillan & Co., 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original green cloth. Travels in America and Europe recounted in the form of letters by the author of TOM BROWN'S SCHOOLDAYS.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a price-clipped, near Very Good dustwrapper. A novelist's conversations with people on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown and on the front pastedown the small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of coal baron La Fayette Butler, many of whose books were left untouched from the time of their purchase by him until their sale in the summer of 1999. Rather uncommon and certainly timely.