Photographs

1968. Photo. Illus. by Ugo Mulas. Très bon. Aucune reliure. 9 tirages gélatino-argentiques d'époque. Feuilles : 37,5 x 28,5 cm (environ), images : 34 x 24 cm (environ). Tous les tirages comportent au verso le tampon d'Ugo Mulas ainsi que diverses annotations. Huit d'entre eux comportent dans les angles des tirages des repères tracés à l'encre visant à les caler lors de leur reproduction et au verso, l'annotation "tel" : ce sont ces tirages qui ont été reproduits, exactement au même format, dans le catalogue de la Galerie de France (pp. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 et 13). Le dernier tirage, représentant trois dessins de Folon posés sur sa table de travail, ne figure pas dans le catalogue : il est inédit. Très rare ensemble de huit des quatorze photographies d'Ugo Mulas (et d'une photographie non retenue) pour le catalogue de la deuxième exposition personnelle de… Read More

1985. Photo. Très bon. Couverture rigide. Signé par l'auteur. Maquette. 1 album de format 33 x 28 cm, contenant, après un titre composé au letraset, 76 photographies originales (12 en couleurs) en tirage argentique d'époque au format 18 x 24 cm (environ) contrecollées, dont : François Huguier : 48 tirages dont 5 en couleurs ; Georges Tourdjman : 24 tirages dont 7 en couleurs ; Claude Bricage : 4 tirages. La plupart des photographies portent au dos le cachet de l'artiste, parfois sa signature. La première est signée par Françoise Huguier sous le tirage, les autres tirages de Françoise Huguier portent son monogramme. Les photographies de Georges Tourdjman sont monogrammées, datées et parfois légendées de sa main (sauf pour 7 d'entre elles, monogrammées de la main de Françoise Huguier). Françoise Huguier a écrit en toutes lettres le nom de Claude Bricage… Read More

Springfield: D. B. Spooner & Co., Photographers, 1858. First Edition. Boards. Very Good. First Edition. Title page and "statistics" (four pages) plus 62 portraits w/tissue guards and interleaved blank leaves (most with signatures or inscriptions from the sitter). Frontispiece engraving of the college signed: "Thos. Chubbuck, Engr. Springfield, Ms." and "Published by J.S. & C. Adams" Statistics leaf signed in print on verso "Samuel Bowles and Company, printers." 4to. 9 1/2 x 12 inches. Decorated leather binding (worn at extremities). "Andrew Josiah Clapp" in gilt on front cover [his album]. "Portraits | Amherst | 1858" in gilt on spine. Two library stamps ("Southampton Public Library") crossed out with no other markings. Photographs are salt prints, oval format, approximately 4 ¾ x 6 inches. Tonality varies, with scattered fading and foxing. Boards. Leaf titled "Statistics" has a list of each student, residence, and when they entered and left college (and if graduated). It also notes that there are… Read More

Cape Canaveral: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1965. Original Photograph . No Binding. Near Fine. Original Nasa Color Photograph Of Apollo 1 Astronaut Edward H White Smiling At Camera. Inscribed "To Lew Hartzell [Sic] Thank You For The Great Cookin & For Gemini Vii Although I Don't Fit In My Suit Any More! Edward H White 16 Nov 1965." Inscribed For Louis Hartsell, The Chef In The Astronaut Training Facility At The Kennedy Space Center At Cape Kennedy/Cape Canaveral. An Original Photograph, Without Nasa Serial Number And Notations On Reverse, But With 'Edward H White, Ii" Printed At Bottom.. From Hartsell's Collection Of Astronaut Photographs All Taken And Signed In The Astronaut Facility, Many Signed The Evening Before The Space Flights Circa 1964-1972.

Detroit, MI: Detroit Photographic Co, 1898. two mounted photographs on thick card paper. 6.75 inches by 9 inches. two mounted photographs on thick card paper. Pair of photochrom photographs. Both photographs are in near fine condition with only the slightest hint of chipping along the edge of the photograph featuring the iconic Yosemite Valley, General View. The photochrom is a color photo lithograph created from a black and white photographic negative. Color impressions are achieved through the application of multiple lithograph stones, one per color. The process was developed in Switzerland and brought to the United States by the Detroit Publishing Company in 1897, which acquired exclusive ownership and rights to the process in America. Anticipating the success of the photochrom for the mass production of color prints, the Detroit Publishing Company recruited William Henry Jackson to become a partner. Jackson joined the company in 1898 as president, bringing with him an estimated 10,000 black and… Read More

Extracted from Nouvelles Archives de Musée d'Histoire Naturelle. 1895, 3. série, tome. VII. pp. (83)-114 with four text woodcuts and two chromolithographed plates by A. Millot (Lit. Lemercier) showing Max and Maurice.Contemporary calf backed marbled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt. An extra-illustrated volume with 22 engravings, lithographs, half-tones and especially important 9 mounted original photographs by an unknown photographer showing the two orangoutans (living and as stuffed animals) with their zookeeper, their taxidermist (?) and with an exotic looking young male. It must have been a fascinating entertainment for the Parisian public and it is said that they attracted more than 100.000 visitors in 1893. They were imported from Borneo and travelled throughout Europe, public viewing was possible in Antwerp, Bruxelles and Paris. Within a year they died from stress and pneumonia. Ernst Pinkert from the Leipzig Zoological Gardens eventually bought them to nurse them back to health… Read More

DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor (1821-1881)
Period albumen portrait by Vezenberg & CoSaint Petersburg [1879], cdv formatMounted on thin cardboard in the photorapher's creditSome superficial stains and flaws (see scan)
Very scarce portrait of the author of Crime and Punishment

This portrait, which has remained famous in the writer's iconography, shows Dostoevsky with a piercing gaze and a slight smile.
Good condition throughout.
Iconography:Album Dostoïevski, éd. G. Aucouturier et C. Menuet, Pléiade, p. 333, n°531

Belgium: Manufacture Liegeoise D'Armes A Feu. Very Good. Leather Flexi-board. Black pebbled leather album 7" x 11" with gilt title on cover and spine. Wear to edges, binding pulling from spine but all pages holding tight. Marbled endpapers. Leaves show light foxing to edges plus definite wear from use. Most pages are linen backed with photo images securely mounted to either album leaf or thinner note paper bound in. Images generally are 4 1/2" x 7 1/2". Album contains 145 photographs plus several pages tipped in from printed trade catalogs. In addition, 6 pages of ledger sheets are tipped in at back of album. This remarkable in-house catalog contains photographs of shot guns, pistols, and revolvers which Manufacture Liegeoise produced for hunting, military and personal use. All photographs are stamped "ML" (Manufacture Liegeoise) or "Cockerill", the English steel supplier and founder of Manufacture Liegeoise (1866). The company continued… Read More

Pacific Theater, World War II: Self-published, 1943. Book. Very Good. Ring Bound. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. A superb World War II archive featuring a significant manuscript photograph album (oblong 17" x 12") containing 147 photographs on 46 pages (17 pages blank at rear), service records, citations, orders, medals, patches, bars, newspaper clippings, ID card, dog tags, and additional loose photographs and negatives, all belonging to Edwin Oscar Ahbe (1916-1995) . Ahbe was inducted on Dec. 1, 1943, reporting to Camp Peekskill, NY and serving as a Cameraman Motion Picture 043 and Combat Photographer in the 3374th Signal Photographic Service Company. After stops at Fort Sheridan and Camps Smith and Crowder, his first overseas photographs in the album begin in Ceylon. A small manuscript list shows he left NY early on Oct. 20, 1944 and records him being in Newfoundland, Azores, Cashblanca (sic), Tripoli, Cairo, Aboudan Iran, Karachi India, Kandy Ceylon, Burma, and China.… Read More

[Reading, PA: Metropolitan Edison Co., 1925]. Oblong 4to. 11.5 x 8.25 in. 57 linen-backed silver gelatin photographs, nearly all w/ typed captions on versos, linen hinges & stubs at gutter margin, bound w/ two brass screw-posts at gutter margin, recent flexible mylar cover as protection secured w/ screw-posts (slight curling at fore-edges), still all photos w/ bright strong contrast. This remarkable series of undocumented photographs visually produces the efforts of Metropolitan Edison to further expand their footprint in the Pennsylvania market after electrifying over 35,000 customers by 1925. As they accelerated their push to introduce additional electrical appliances following World War I, they sponsored trade shows and expositions to advertise the latest available products, and even commissioned their employees to regularly make house calls after hours with electrical toasters, and lamps with prizes awarded for the most sales. Met-Ed customers could pay for the latest appliances with… Read More

[Russia],: 1953, 1953. Small folio. 10.5 x 11.75 inches. Not paginated. 59 original mounted photographs, with text referencing each photograph and additional text material. Original gilt-stamped maroon cloth; a touch of wear, some soiling to fore-edge, embossed stamp of Carnegie Institution [HALE]. Very clean and well preserved. No copy in WordCat. RARE. 59 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF NEBULAE. First and only edition of this large atlas volume of original photographs with accompanying text compiled by V. G. Fesenkov and D.A. Rozhkovsky who pioneered studying the gaseous nebulae. These are the leading Russian astrophysicists of their time who were the first to make a photographic "Atlas of Gas and Dust Nebulae" in trying to understand the "evolution of structure of nebulae, turbulent phenomena in interstellar clouds and in the vicinity of hot stars." / "In 1950, academician V. G. Fesenkov and D.A. Rozhkovsky began a detailed study of gas-dust galactic nebulae. A large collection of original photographs of… Read More

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this collection contains images of people who have died.Small collection of thirteen photographs relating to the first crossing by a non-indigenous man (with the help of an indigenous man) of Australia's Simpson Desert, together with a few images of his home and its inhabitants in the remote southeast corner of Northern Territory. Includes three photographs of indigenous Australians at Colson's homestead.Eight 150x160mm images (seven desert crossing images and one Blood Creek homestead image), four smaller images taken at and around Blood Creek (one 10x75mm, two 80x60mm, one 55x55mm) and one 120x80mm colour photo taken at the Colson memorial in Birdsville (circa early 1980s). All but two images have hand-written notes on the verso to Val and Jean, Ted Colson's nephew and niece. One 2cm open tear to top left corner of one of the larger prints; one 2mm open tear to another (border only); rust marks along rhs of a third; light foxing to two… Read More

[San Francisco]: [Probably Taber Photo], 1880. Ephemera. Near fine. An imperial plate (8-1/2 by 12-1/2 inches) image of the El Capitan, one of the best-known rock formations in the Yosemite Valley. Watkins made at least five mammoth-plate images from this vantage point over a period of at least 20 years. Watkins took this image between 1878 and 1881. It may have been printed by Isaiah Taber, after Taber took over Watkins's bankrupt photo studio. However, it does not have the Taber imprint but the mount matches another Yosemite image with Taber's logo in the negative. This view is very similar to one of Watkins's mammoth-plate images (Naef and Hult-Lewis, Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs, no. 136) and was almost certainly taken at the same time. It is easily distinguishable from images taken at another time because this image and the corresponding mammoth-plate view have a white reflection of the mountain in the water in the foreground. In addition to the albumen print offered… Read More

NP. ND. . HAND TOOLED FINE BINDING. Large 4to. (7.4 x 5 inches.). A collection of maps, engraved views, bank notes, photographs and hand written letters, one detailing the writer's travels which accompanies the photo's. Engraved views and maps, some hand coloured, letters (one relating to travels across Kurdistan dressed as a Cossack, one an ill fated ships travels around the West Indies), documents, 2 signed etchings, one original pen drawing, early American passport (with small area of loss), and photos. ----- Attractive late 19th century or early twentieth century craft binding of full dark green morocco. Spine with decorative gilt border and emerald green morocco shamrock onlays. Boards with single gilt ruled borders. Each corner with circular design incorporating Fleur-de-lys and emerald green morocco onlays with gilt borders of Shamrocks. A similar design is in the centre of the board. The inner line of the border on both boards is decorated with morocco onlay and gilt shamrocks. Inner boards… Read More

>4º mayor (29 x 21 cm). 275 p. Encuadernación en medio tafilete marrón con esquinas; nervios realzados y título en letras doradas en el lomo; pastas marmoleadas con un poco de desgaste. Con 22 fotografías montadas en albúmina (9,5 x 12,5 y 12,5 x 17,5 cm) que representan una cirugía ocular en un cadáver y 190 ilustraciones xilográficas en textos, grabados por Badoureau, según Leveille‧
Primera y única edición de la primera obra fotoilustrada del mundo sobre cirugía ocular. Aunque esta nueva tecnología era más cara de producir que los paneles grabados o las litografías, también proporcionaba una representación más realista. Durante mucho tiempo no hubo ningún trabajo comparable en ningún campo quirúrgico. Las fotografías muestran diversas operaciones en el ojo (cistotomía, salida de cataratas, estrabismo, cantoplastia, etc.). Como el equipo fotográfico de la época aún no era tan sofisticado, las operaciones se realizaban sobre cadáveres‧
Arthur de Montméja,… Read More