Photography
32 items found
[Photobox]
"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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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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Hauck, G. (ed.)
Festschrift der Königlichen technischen Hochschule zu Berlin. Zur Feier der Einweihung ihres neuen Gebäudes am 2. November 1884.
Berlin, [Königliche technische Hochschule], 1884. Large 4to (30.8 x 22.4 cm). viic [sic! = xciii], 337 pp.; several text figures, ten plates including three fine, chromolithographed plates (one larger, folded), several original, mounted photos including one in full colour (an early example), and two large ones (20.1 x 15.8 cm; 13.9 x 19.9 cm [oblong]). Original printed wrappers.
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[Röntgen,W.]
Deutsche medicinische Wochenschrift. [The first papers on the application of Röntgen or X rays in medicine].
Leipzig und Berlin, [Thieme], 1896. Folio (31.5 x 23.6 cm). Numerous pages and illustrations including original, mounted photos. Later half cloth over marbled boards.
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Souvenir of Cape of Good Hope
Souvenir of Cape of Good Hope.
Cape Town [?], "G. B. & Co.", ca. 1900. Oblong, large folio (22.0 x 57.0 cm). 71 photos in heliogravure, including 11 wide panoramas, and 15 groups of four smaller photos. Original pebbled cloth in grey and red, with gilt title on the front board. Marbled endpapers.
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Cole, R. V.
British trees, drawn and described by Rex Vivat Cole and text revised by Dorothy Kempe. Subscribers' edition with 13 proof photogravures limited to 150 copies.
London, Hutchinson, 1907. Two parts in two. Large 4to (30.3 x 23.5 cm). 723 pp.; 430 reproductions of original drawings and paintings by the author including 13 proof photogravures. Uniform publisher's green buckram with gilt-titled calf spine mounted. All edges gilt.
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Auer, A.
Faust. Poligrafisch illustrirte Zeitschrift für Kunst, Wissenschaft, Industrie, und geselliges Leben, begleitet von Kunst-Beilagen aus mehr als 30 Druckfächern. [All photographic plates. Original prints, mounted, as issued].
Wien, Auer, [1853]-1855. Folio (34.4 x 25.6 cm). Three original albumen prints, mounted on printed boards.
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[J. Brandt & Zoon]
Decorative leathers applied to modern furniture.
Amsterdam, J. Brandt & Zoon, ca. 1910-1916. Folio (37.0 x 30.0 cm). With 36 original photographs of furniture leather crafting such as, chairs, clocks and smoking stands, each with a handwritten caption, on 34 leaves. Original full leather, with gilt title and vignette on the front board. Marbled endpapers.
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Tepe, R.
A collection of original early nature photographs.
Amsterdam, The photographer, ca. 1900-1940. A collection of 29 silver print photographs (size between ca. 16.5 x 22.0 cm [nine photos] others 7.5 x 11.5 cm, or larger). Preserved in a modern, black cloth clamshell box (27.6 x 22.5 x 3.0 cm).
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Ogawa, K.
Some Japanese Flowers.
Yokohama, Kelly and Walsh, [1896]. Folio (38.2 x 29.3 cm). Title-page; 37 chromocollotype plates, partly finished by hand, each with a printed tissue guard. Original silk covers with floral, full-colour prints on front and rear boards; stab binding with threaded cords. Gilt-speckled endpapers. All edges gilt.
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[Photography and Photogravures]
A nice collection of 154 extracts from the Comptes Rendus des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences from 1841 to 1915.
Paris, Académie des Sciences, 1841-1915. 4to (ca. 26 x 21 cm). In a later, custom-made blue box (29.5 x 23.5 x 7.0 cm) with a printed label on the front (top) board.
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