Photography
32 items found
[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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MacInnes, D.G.
A study of fossil Mammalia from East Africa [original manuscript].
Unpublished [n.d., but ca 1938.] 4to (26.0 x 20.4 cm). Original typed manuscript with 336 pp.; 143 original photographs in various sizes, and some original drawn maps. Full contemporary dark blue cloth with gilt title on spine.
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[Pfanner, P.]
Stereo slides. Afrique - Africa - early 1960's. [AND] Malaysia - India - Indonesia - Hong Kong - Cambodia - Australia, etc. (1973-1975).
Switzerland, unpublished, (before) 1966-1975. A large collection of colour stereo slides, in uniform trays, and boxes, preserved in four leather suitcases. With the original stereo camera; and a contemporary stereoscope with working light.
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[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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[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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