[Rarebooks] FS: A Dozen on Photography

Tue Nov 21 12:18:14 EST 2006

A selection of a dozen titles-

Anninger, Anne & Julie Mellby.  "SALTS OF SILVER TONED WITH GOLD. THE
HARRISON D. HORBLITT COLLECTION OF EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY"  The Houghton
Library, Harvard: 1999.  The illustrated catalog of an important
collection of mid-19th century photography. The scholarly text provides
much background material.  Softcover. 8.5”x11”, 173 pages, b/w
illustrations; very light wear.  [09478]  $25.00

One of 100 Large-paper copies-

Brownell, L.W.  "PHOTOGRAPHY FOR THE SPORTSMAN NATURALIST"  New York;
Macmillan Company:1904. Deluxe Edition limited to 100 copies on large
paper, bound in handsome quarter leather.  A wide-ranging book for the
enthusiastic and serious naturalist / photographer.  Chapters are included
on lenses and shutters, darkrooms, telephoto lenses, photographing large
animals, small animals, birds' nests, birds, insects, fish, reptiles, wild
flowers, trees, zoo photography, and "photography in camp and woods".  A
good early study of this subject.  Hardcover.  6.5"x9", xviii + 311 pages,
many b/w illustrations.  Bound in quarter leather with raised bands and
gilt spine medallions.  Light rubbing to the tips and edges of the covers,
front hinge partially split but still tight and good. Otherwise a very
nice, handsome copy in fine condition.  $125.00

Field, Richard S. & Robin Jaffe Frank.  "AMERICAN DAGUERREOTYPES FROM THE
MATTHEW R. ISENBURG COLLECTION"  Yale University Art Gallery: 1989.  The
catalog to an exhibition of this superb collection. The text includes an
introduction by Isenburg and an essay by Alan Trachtenberg on the American
daguerreotype, as well as a complete description of the pictures
illustrated. An important and increasingly uncommon catalog.  Hardcover.
9”x11”, 126 pages, color and b/w illustrations, dj; near fine. [09479] 
$200.00

Foresta, Merry A.  "AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS. THE FIRST CENTURY. FROM THE
ISAACS COLLECTION AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART"  National Museum
of American Art, Smithsonian Institution: 1996.  A sweeping survey of
early American photography, from early portraits to Civil War vistas and
the landscapes of William Henry Jackson. More than two thirds of the
pictures are illustrated here for the first time. Softcover. 9.5”x11.5”,
171 pages, b/w and color illustrations; near fine.  [09477]  $30.00

Gordon, Colin.  "A RICHER DUST. ECHOES FROM AN EDWARDIAN ALBUM" 
Philadelphia; J.B. Lippincott Company: 1978.  One day in 1972, whilst
browsing the junk stalls at a small Yorkshire market, Colin Gordon bought,
for reasons that were not clear to him at the time, a heavy box of old
glass-plate photographic negatives.  As he developed the photographs and
used several clues to research the subjects, this is the story he pieced
together- the story of the Atkinson family from the year of Queen
Victoria's Jubilee into the 1920s.  It is the story of the rise and fall
of a well-to-do Edwardian family as they grew, played and traveled through
the closing years of the 19th century and the first few decades of the
20th.  Hardcover.  7.5"x10", 190 pages, b/w illustrations; dj; light wear.
 [03377]  $25.00

Hubert, J.  "ART OF RETOUCHING: WITH CHAPTERS ON PORTRAITURE AND
FLASH-LIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY"  London; Hazell, Watson & Viney: 1900. 10th
edition.  An early, practical guide to the retouching of photographs,
something I am given to understand may still happen today... Includes
chapters of portraiture and “flash-light photography”. First published in
1890. Publication No.6 in the ‘Amateur Photographer Library’.  Card
covers. 4.75”x7”, 84 pages + 20 pages of advertisements; b/w halftone
frontispiece and 10 text illustrations; light wear.  [09459]  $50.00

Rinhart, Floyd & Marion.  "AMERICAN DAGUERREIAN ART"  New York; Clarkson
Potter: 1967.  An excellent study of the development of daguerreotypes and
their cases.  Daguerreotypes enjoyed a brief popularity- from about 1840
to 1860, when they were supplanted by tintypes, but that 20-year period
saw some exquisite work.  This study includes both the well-known
portraits and the lesser-known landscape and town pictures.  It also
includes the first full coverage of the work of Levi Hill, who invented
the color process for daguerreotypes.  Hardcover.  8.5"x11", 132 pages, 89
b/w and color illustrations, dj.  [03810]  $65.00

Rinhart, Floyd & Marion.  "AMERICAN MINIATURE CASE ART"  South Brunswick;
A.S. Barnes and Company: 1969.  The standard study of gutta-percha,
embossed leather and other small cases made for the developing 19th
century photography market.  A fascinating pictorial survey of Victorian
craft.  The authors have also unearthed much information on the makers of
these cases and their methods of production.  There are also biographies
of known case makers, and notes on the rarity of the illustrated examples.
 Hardcover.  10.5"x10.5", 205 pages, 229 b/w and 19 color illustrations;
worn dj.  [03286]  $175.00

Rochester Optical Co.  "THE PREMO CAMERA. ROCHESTER OPTICAL CO. 1898.
CAMERAS, LENSES, ACCESSORIES"  Princeton; Pyne Press: 1971.  From the
American Historical Catalog Collection Series.  A reprint of an
interesting camera and accessory catalog from the turn of the century.  A
picture is worth a thousand words, so I'll shut up now...  Softcover. 
6"x9", 103 + 8 pages, b/w illustrations; a fine copy.  [03374]  $40.00

Schwarz, Henry.  "ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY: FORERUNNERS AND INFLUENCES.
Selected Essays by Henry Schwarz"  Layton; Gibbs M. Smith / Visual Studies
Workshop Press: 1985.  A series of essays on the relationship of art,
science and early photography and such photographic precursors as the
camera obscura.  Hardcover.  6"x9", 158 pages, b/w illustrations, dj;
slight soil along the top edge.  [06593]  $25.00

Smith, Graham.  "ISCIPLES OF LIGHT. PHOTOGRAPHS IN THE BREWSTER ALBUM" 
Malibu; J. Paul Getty Museum: 1990.  An examination of an album acquired
by the Getty Museum- Sir David Brewster's own album of photographs made
between 1839 and 1850 by the principal Scottish practicioners of William
Henry Fox Talbot's new "art".  Hardcover.  9"x11", 170 pages, b/w
illustrations, dj; a fine copy in a near fine jacket.  [02479]  $60.00

Woodall, Ann & Elizabeth Reynolds (eds.).  "ALBUM. ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS
FROM THE ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY COLLECTION. CATALOGUE OF AN
EXHIBITION"  Atlanta; Handshake Center for the Arts: 1980.  An exhibition
of examples from the fine collection of the Atlanta Historical Society,
showing Georgia people, buildings and scenes from the past 100 years. 
Softcover. 8”x9”, 63 pages, b/w illustrations; light soil.  [06073] 
$25.00

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