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[Florence] [Binding] Tuscan Cities [Extra-Illustrated]

HOWELLS, W. D. (William Dean, 1837-1920); Fratelli Alinari (Photographs) · 1900

$251.00 (€227.73 | £189.99 | ¥40,069)

Leipzig Heinemann and Balestier Later edition of Howells's guide to Florence and Pisa enriched with literary portraits of their most illustrious citizens. Crown 8vo (150 x 109mm): 264pp, with 27 tipped-in full page albumen prints, many by the Florence firm Fratelli Alinari. Fu...

[Photobook] [Castles] The History and Description Of Leeds Castle, Kent

MARTIN, Charles Wykeham (1801-1870) · 1869

$626.00 (€567.96 | £473.83 | ¥99,932)

Westminster Nichols and Sons Only Edition (according to the author's preface, only 500 copies were printed, "using original photographs to assist in the study of English castles by anti-quaries"). Royal 4to (379 x 281mm): x,210,[2],xxxvi pp, with eight mounted albumen prints b...

[Photobook] [Eclipse] Reports on the Observations of the Total Eclipse of the Sun, December 21-22, 1889, and of the Total Eclipse of the Moon, July 22, 1888, to which is added A Catalogue of the Library (Contributions from the Lick Observatory No. 2)

SCHAEBERLE, J. M. (John Martin, 1853-1924); S. W. Burnham; Edward Singleton Holden · 1891

$574.00 (€520.78 | £434.47 | ¥91,631)

Sacramento State Office, A. J. Johnston, Supt. State Printing First edition of this combined report, featuring original prints of some of the earliest photographs to document a solar eclipse. Demy 8vo (227 x 142mm): [4],121,[1]; 121*,[1]pp, with frontispiece ("Silver print of...

Photographs of English and Scottish Scenery. Dunkeld. 12 Views

WILSON, G. W. (George Washington, 1823-1893) · 1866

$499.00 (€452.73 | £377.70 | ¥79,659)

Aberdeen: 24 and 25, Crown Street Printed by John Duffus First Printing A superb copy in original cloth, with twelve albumen prints by Wilson, from his series on towns and villages. Demy 8vo (220 x 179mm): twelve albumen photographs of Dunkeld (97 x 80mm) mounted on card with ...

[Photobook] Wunder in der Natur. Bild-dokumente schöner Pflanzenformen

BLOSSFELDT, Karl (1865-1932) · 1942

$1,624.00 (€1,473.42 | £1,229.24 | ¥259,249)

Leipzig Verlag: H. Schmidt & C. Günther Pantheon-Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft First Edition First (and only) Printing of the final book in Blossfeldt's celebrated trilogy (with Urformen der Kunst and Wundergarten der Natur), showcasing "unfamiliar shapes from the vegetal world...

[Photobook] The Book of Harlech

COBURN, Alvin Langdon (1882-1966) · 1920

$851.00 (€772.09 | £644.14 | ¥135,851)

Harlech [Wales] D. H. Parry First Edition Scarce first printing of Coburn's celebration of this otherworldly Welsh village to which he and his wife fled from London, growing vegetables and keeping goats. Oblong 8vo (174 x 232mm): [6],7-15,[1]pp, with 20 numbered collotype engr...

[Photobook] [Waterfalls] Views around Ithaca : being a description of the waterfalls and ravines of this remarkable locality

CLARKE, F. W. (Frank Wigglesworth, 1847-1931) · 1869

$1,114.00 (€1,010.71 | £843.21 | ¥177,835)

Ithaca, N.Y. Andrus, McChain Scarce First (and only) Edition of this local guide with original albumen prints. Crown 8vo (179 x 111mm): 155,[3]pp, with ten mounted captioned photographs and table of measurements of the falls. Publisher's forest green cloth, spine lettered in g...

[Photobook] A Holiday in Iceland [With Original Photographs]

VAN GRUISEN, N. L. (active 1870s) · 1879

$439.00 (€398.29 | £332.29 | ¥70,080)

London Elliott Stock First (and only) Edition of this travelog with original woodbury-type photographs. 8vo (212 x 136mm): vi,[3]-98pp, with five woodbury-type prints mounted on separate leaves. Publisher's blue-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt and ornamented in black, fron...

[Photobook] A View of the Cotswolds

SMITH, Edwin (1912-1971) · 2005

$274.00 (€248.59 | £207.40 | ¥43,740)

Risbury, Herefordshire The Whittington Press Limited Edition Number 22 of 350 copies set in Poliphilus and Fry's Baskerville types and printed at the Whittington Press on sand-colored Bugra-Butten mould-made paper. With essays, commentaries, and a checklist by Alan Powers, Geo...

Photographs [Signed, with doodle]

GINSBERG, Allen (1926-1997) · 1990

$499.00 (€452.73 | £377.70 | ¥79,659)

Altadena, Calif. Twelvetrees Press Limited Edition of the poet's first and only book of pictures, featuring Ginsberg and others of the beat generation "in their flaming youth." (Roth) One of 5,000 unnumbered copies. Royal 8vo (354 x 275mm): unpaginated, with 91 captioned full-...

[Photobook] Atget Photographe de Paris [Ben Shahn's copy]

ATGET, E. [Eugène, 1857-1927]; Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) · 1930

$1,399.00 (€1,269.28 | £1,058.93 | ¥223,331)

New York E. Weyhe First Edition of this high point of twentieth-century documentary photography, from the library of one of the foremost documentary photographers. Preface (in French) by Pierre Mac-Orlan. Royal 8vo (267 x 207mm): [4],23,[1]pp, with frontispiece portrait of Atg...

[Photobook] Moor Park Rickmansworth: A Series of Photographs. With an introduction by Lady Ebury.

COBURN, Alvin Langdon (1882-1966) · 1915

$1,324.00 (€1,201.23 | £1,002.16 | ¥211,359)

London Elkin Matthews, Cork Street First Edition One of Coburn's "most exquisite interpretations" (Newhall), with twenty photogravures in the pictorialist style of the "grandest 18th-century mansion in Hertfordshire taken" (Pevsner), made while Coburn was teaching photography ...

[Scandinavian Photography] [Street Photography] Poste Restante

STRöMHOLM, Christer (1918-2002) · 1967

$1,399.00 (€1,269.28 | £1,058.93 | ¥223,331)

Stockholm P. A. Norstedt and Söners Verlag First Edition Strohmholm's important second book, "his photographic autobiography or manifesto," and a "one of the most significant European photobooks of the 1960s." (Parr & Badger) Text in Swedish, by Tor-Ivan Odulf. Small quarto, u...

[Photobook] Photographic Views of Warwickshire

BEDFORD, Francis (1815/1816-1894) · 1865

$1,024.00 (€929.05 | £775.08 | ¥163,468)

Chester Catherall & Pritchard, Eastgate Row A fine album of views by one of the preeminent nineteenth century photographers. Oblong royal 8vo (180 × 249mm): 16 interleaved albumen photographs from collodion negatives, each mounted on card with gilt fillet border and title prin...

[Photobook] Histoire de la Photographie

LÈCUYER, Raymond · 1945

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.93 | ¥67,686)

Paris Baschet et Cie, 13, Rue Saint-Georges First Edition of the most sought after and rarest of L'Illustration's great albums, a landmark work describing in exhaustive detail photography's early development. Text in French. Royal 8vo (375 x 280mm): [8],451,[5]pp, profusely il...

[Photobook] It was a Grey Day. Photographs of Berlin

BADGER, Gerry (b. 1948) · 2015

$86.00 (€78.03 | £65.10 | ¥13,729)

[Berlin] Peperoni Books First Printing First Edition (so stated), collecting photographs of back streets and dilapidated spaces in the Berlin neighborhoods of Mitte, Tiergarten, Wedding, and Kreuzberg. Oblong royal 8vo (243 x 300mm): 120 pp, including 49 full-color illustratio...

[Photobook] Eisen und Stahl [Iron and Steel]

RENGER-PATZSCH, Albert (1897-1966) · 1931

$874.00 (€792.96 | £661.55 | ¥139,522)

Berlin Verlag Hermann Reckendorf G. m. b. H. Second Edition Virtually pristine example of this cornerstone of "Neue Sachlichkeit" ("New Objectivity") photography, by one of its leading practitioners. Foreword by Albert Vögler. Slim royal 8vo (300 x 210mm): [14]pp, with 97 numb...

[Photobook] [Field Guide] The Birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire: a Contribution to the Natural History of the Two Counties

KENNEDY, Alexander W. M. Clark (1851-1894) · 1868

$574.00 (€520.78 | £434.47 | ¥91,631)

Eton / London Ingalton and Drake / Simpkin, Marshall First Edition of apparently the first field guide to birds to use photographs as illustrations. 8vo: xiv,[2],232pp, with four hand-colored and varnished albumen photographs of stuffed birds mounted on heavy card stock. ("It ...

[Photobook] Old English Homes : A Summer's Sketch-Book

THOMPSON, Stephen (c. 1830-1893) · 1876

$514.00 (€466.34 | £389.06 | ¥82,053)

London Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, Crown Buildings 188, Fleet Street First (and only) Edition of this documentary record of six important country houses, featuring 24 Woodbury-type photographs mounted on card stock. Royal 8vo (288 x 203mm): viii,215,[1]pp, with illu...

[Czech Photographic Society] Fotografie 1928-58

KAINAR, Josef (1917-1971) · 1959

$949.00 (€861.01 | £718.32 | ¥151,495)

Prague Orbis First Edition Portfolio of 20 original gelatin silver prints, representing 30 years of Czech photography, including Josef Sudek's "Mé Okno" (1952), Jaromir Funke's "Z Cyklu Cas Trvá" (1932), Karel Hájek's "Zachranený" (1934), and Erich Einhorn's "Za mané?e" (1958)...