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...
At the height of their careers
A very rare copy: signed by the artist
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 fine and luxurous photo-album on an economically important building operation along the river Rhine in the 1930's
Rhine river [photos]
Album with original, large photographs of the building of the locks in the Rhine at Kembs, France (1929-1932).
Kembs, no publisher indicated, [1929]-1932. Oblong photo album (board size 22.5 x 34.0 x 3.0 cm). 26 tissue-guarded original photographs mounted on 26 cardboard sheets with printed captions. Original burgundy half cloth over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers.
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€500.00
A unique collection of early 20th-century European lamp designs
Early photography - Life in Meiji Japan in colour
Very rare original photo of native Americans, commissioned by Prince Roland Bonaparte
