[Rarebooks] baseball item #14 from the Norman Kane collection (FS)

[Peter B. Howard]

1887    Muybridge (Eadweard)  (1830-1904)

"Category MOVEMENTS.  Movement of the hand; lifting a ball."

Original photogravure.

Plate #534 from ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. [Philadelphia: Printed by the 
Photo-Gravure Company for The University of Philadelphia, 1887].   19" x 
24" = an untrimmed copy. Modest soil mark in the toned border, small hole 
in the outer white border, some brown spotting on blank verso. Very good. 
The photographic image portion of the broadsheet is in fine condition.  Two 
sequences, the grip is left-handed in each 12 image sequence. 24 
photographs combined. The ball is a baseball.   $1500.00

The full title of the published portfolio of 781 collotype studies is 
ANIMAL LOCOMOTION: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive 
Phases of Animal Movements. $1500.00


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