[San Francisco: The Press in Tuscany Alley, 1988]. 8vo, pp. [22]; printed in blue and black; mounted frontispiece photograph of Wilson by Ansel Adams; fine in original blue wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover. From the library of Kim Merker. Remarks by William Eshelman, James D. Hart, Ward Ritchie..... More
[Kyoto]: [early 1900s]. Accordion fold album, 3½" x 5¼", 26 silverprint photographs tipped in measuring approx. 3½" x 4½"; padded brocade boards, top and bottom edges gilt; boards edge-worn, a few photos faded, one leaf cracked and repaired with the residue affecting a photograph, images in very good condition, depicting..... More
Berlin: Parnassus Verlag, [1910?]. Oblong 4to, pp. 56; text in German, English and French; photo-reproductive illustrations of various sights around the city, with captions; illustrated cloth boards, boards lightly soiled, upper endpaper creased, a couple small tears repaired with tape, very good. Inscribed "Dem geliebsen Albert Campbell zum andenken an..... More
Chicago: Rand, McNally, n.d., [ca. 1876]. 10 x 14.5 cm, accordion fold viewbook containing 12 photo-lithograph panels showing views of the Centennial and Philadelphia; original decorative green pebble-grain cloth stamped in gilt; minor rubbing else fine, and preserving the original black paper sheath (small piece chipped away at one end)..... More
V.p., v.d. [ca. late 1870s - 2000s]. Ranging in size from 3" x 4" to 11" x 14" with representative examples by N. L. Stebbins (28 in number), John T. Hopf (22); P. L. Sperr (11); Charles Magnus (5); Morris Rosenfeld (5); Frank H. Child (3); Hollis Burgess (3); James..... More
Chicago: The W. H. Parish Publishing Co., 1896. 9 volumes, folio, 13 leaves of text printed on rectos only; 57 photogravure plates (some composite); original printed pictorial brown wrappers; wrappers on first and last parts slightly chipped, but in all this is a near fine, complete set. Photomechanical reproductions of..... More
San Francisco: Passenger Department, Southern Pacific Company, 1906. One hundred and twenty-fifth thousand. Oblong 8vo, pp. [32]; 28 grayscale illustrations; color pictorial paper wrappers; ex-library, staple bound in stiff card with library labels on inner card covers, small closed tear to upper wrapper, very good. Featuring landmarks and a picture..... More
N.p. [Saint Paul?]: 1869. Large plate albumen photograph approx. 12" x 21" mounted on a printed card approx. 16" x 21"; slight toning; very good. A large and unusual photograph by an unnamed photographer showing the steamer Buckeye towing what was at the time the largest raft ever run on..... More
n.p. ca. 1976. 26 photographs, 24 about 8" x 6", one 3" x 10.25" and one 4" x 10", all photographs of Zhou Enlai, from a young adult to his death and funeral; 21 photos part of an incomplete numbered run lacking nos. 5, 12 and 22, the others apparantly..... More
Various places: publishers as below, ca. 1900-1915. Stereographs consist of two nearly identical photographs or photomechanical prints, mounted on heavy card stock, and paired to produce the illusion of a single three-dimensional image, when viewed through a stereoscope. Such a stereoscope is included here. Many of them were published with..... More
Kakura, Beppu, etc. 1946-1948. 574 slides, largely taken by an American serviceman in Occupied Japan, including images of local street scenes, harbors and docks, portraits, images of city ruins, domestic scenes, and tourist shots. About 100 slides are portraits of a single woman, about 30 are later slides from the..... More
Chicago: Junior Air Service of America Inc., [ca 1930]. 8vo, pp. 23, [1]; text illustrations throughout; illustrated self-wrappers; some splitting at spine, near fine. This issue focused on aerial photography. More
[Nice: Giletta, 1910]. Oblong 4to, pp. [66]; original green wrappers printed in white and with 2 photographic onlays; half-tone illustrations throughout; near fine. Photo album of the French Riviera, including Marseilles, Toulon, Hyeres, Cannes, Nice, Monaco, Monte Carlo, San Remo, etc. Captions in French, English, and German. Two copies in..... More
[West Chester, Penn. ?]: 1890. The photograph is approx. 12" x 15¾" (by sight) in what appears to be the original mount (approx. 18" x 22"). The mount is broken at 3 corners but no loss of any lettering or image; some light overall spotting of the image, else generally..... More
London, New York, Chicago: T. Tennyson Neely, [1899]. Oblong 8vo, pp. [60]; 57 full-page photographic illustrations throughout; original red cloth stamped in silver; soiled, back cover with small stain, internally clean. More
New York: New York Edison Co., 1923. 4to, pp. [132]; contains 125 photographs of New York City, many taken at night; very good copy in original beige cloth-backed paper-covered boards, paper label on upper cover; without the glassine jacket and publisher's box. With a printed complimentary slip from the publishers..... More
1902. A dramatic series of cabinet photos showing the destruction caused by the 1902 tornado, with a “Before the storm” image showing how lovely the grounds had been. The cemetery (originally Green Mound Cemetery) was founded in 1875 and expanded rapidly as a garden landscape cemetery. On the evening of..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago, 1967. 5 photographic cards, 7 x 6 in., laid into printed folder, folder soiled, prints fine. Likely presented as part of the dedication ceremony of Moore's piece. "On December 2, 1942, a team of scientists led by Italian émigré Enrico Fermi set the world’s first man-made..... More
n.p., n.d. [1921]. Oblong 4to, 10 leaves, 60 photographs (mostly 3½" x 5½" but also 4" x 6"), captions in Dutch; contemporary floral cloth; bound with a string of rawhide. Generally very good to fine. Some of the photographs are dated as late as 1924. Contains views of Suez, Port Said..... More
Providence: H. S. Inman, 1886. Large 4to, consisting of a title leaf, table of contents, and 100 fine heliogravures, each appropriately captioned; publisher's heavy full blindstamped black morocco, double gilt rules on covers enclosing the title in gilt, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-decorated spine, a.e.g., silk moiré endpapers; some moderate rubbing;..... More
Hanoi, Tonkin: P. Duile fils [et al.], 1908-09. A dozen photographic postcards each approx. 3½" x 5½", mostly captioned in red, showing decapitated heads, beaten bodies, and people about to be slaughtered (many described as 'pirates'). One caption mostly torn away; postcards are otherwise in very good condition and are..... More
New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1897. Large 8vo, pp. 141, [1] ads; original pictorial tan cloth; stamped in gilt and black on upper cover; half-tone illustrations throughout, a number full-page; gilt lettering on spine; a.e.g.; very good. A compilation of articles from The Photographic Times, The American Annual..... More
[Minneapolis]: [Regis Center at the University of Minnesota], [2013]. First edition, sm 4to, unpaginated; profusely illustrated in color, text in Chinese & English; Fine in original black and white cloth, accordion style; Wang Youshen (b.1964), a Beijing artist featured at the Minneapolis Photo Center, where the exhibition follows Wang's theory..... More
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Utsunomiya: Bekkakukanbeisha, 1934. Large oblong 8vo, 32 color illustrations (1 map and 31 photo-reproductions) interleaved with explanatory text in English and Japanese; Illustrated paper covers, sewn with cord; light wear, library stamp on flyleaf, very good. Nikko is the site of the mausoleum of the Tokugawa family, de facto rulers..... More
Tokyo: Tokyo Daigaku, 1960. First edition, square 8vo, pp. [2], 3, [1], [96]; 100 grayscale photographs; preface in Japanese; white boards; loss to upper spine, contemporary inscription on title page from Matsuhiko Nemoto. Very good. More
