Photography
29 items found
Portrait of a beetle-loving banker
A rare original photo of the influential French chemist Marcellin Berthelot
Early work on avian motion using new photographic techniques
One of the last samurai
50 years ago...
Early photographs of father and son, in a beautiful and uncommon gutta-percha box
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"Father and son". Two portraits in pressed gutta-percha box.
Locality unknown, ca. 1850-1860. A richly decorated box with two fine, glazed prints in, respectively, a rectangular frame with rounded corners, and an oval frame (both ca. 8.2 x 6.5 cm), each surrounded with an elaborate gilt border. The first is an ambrotype, the second a tintype photo. The exterior with raised, rococo borders and oval cartouche. Edges hollowed.
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€450.00
Quintessential counterculture
A very rare copy: signed by the artist
At the height of their careers
The birth of practical photography
Daguerre, I. J. M. (and D. F. J. Arago)
Arago annonce que M. Daguerre vient de trouver le moyen d'abréger considérablement le temps nécaissaire pour produire une image photographique et M. Arago annonce que M. Daguerre en faisant intervenir l'électricité dans les procédés de la photographie... (Vol. XII, No. 1, p.23 and No. 26, pp. 1228-1229) and several other comments on and additions to the invention of practical photography.
Paris, Académie des Sciences, 1841. Thick 4to (20.5 x 26.1 cm). Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences. Contemporary half vellum over marbled boards. Spine with red morocco labels with gilt title.
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€500.00
A unique collection of early 20th-century European lamp designs
Very rare original photo of native Americans, commissioned by Prince Roland Bonaparte
