![Florence [19TH-CENTURY PHOTO-ALBUM WITH 90 ALBUMEN PRINTS FROM THE FRATELLI ALINARI]. Leopoldo Alinari, and Romualdo, Giuseppe.](/pictures/thumb/41818.jpg?v=1484682258)
NP: NP, ND (ca 1880). Original photograph(s). Hardcover. Oblong folio (16 x 20 1/2"). [83] leaves. 19th-century quarter blind-stamped cloth over floral decorative wooden panels, with light green lettering to front cover. Striking 19th-century photo-album containing 90 albumen prints (including 81 mammoth plates) by the celebrated Fratelli Alinari.* The photographs... More
![Monumental Panoramic View of The Forum Romanum, the Temple of Saturn in the foreground [ORIGINAL 3-PART ALBUMEN PRINT]. Domenico Anderson, Photographer.](/pictures/thumb/40280.jpg?v=1462579579)
[Rome]: NP, [1887]. Original photograph. Framed. A three-part panoramic albumen print of the ruins of the Temple of Saturn* (Roman Forum, Rome), mounted on board and framed in a contemporary oak frame. The splendid image was made in 1887, and is attributed to Italian photographer Domenico Anderson (1854-1938).** A similar... More
Sebah & Joaillier, 1880-1890. Hardcover. Impressive (11ft x 10") ten-panel panoramic albumen print fold-out of Constantinople. Red cloth boards with stunning gilt-stamped lettering and illustrations on the covers. Maroon leather spine. The back cover with gold-stamped Ay Y ld z (crescent moon star) within a circle of exquisite gilt stamped... More
Mainz: Verlag von Victor V. Zabern, n/d. J. G. Prestel. Hardcover. 3 volumes. Oblong 4to. Brick cloth binding with decorative black and gold border. Also with scored edges. All edge gilt. All volumes with gold side clasp; broken on two volumes. Each volume containing 50 photographic plates each (150 total)... More
Berlin: Photographische Geselschaft, n/d. Johann Wilhelm Schirmer. Hardcover. Folio. Unpaginated. Full green tooled, gilt-stamped and decorated leather binding. With 6 plates (each plate with two images). All images by J. W. Schirmer are Biblical (Old Testament) in theme and listed, with titles, at front. Schirmer had studied painting under Johann... More
Deuben: Gemeinderat zu Deuben, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong Quarto. (1) 21 plates. Original black leather with debossed ruling and gilt-stamped lettering and wave molding on cover. Gilt edges and decorative gilt-stamped endpapers. Printed dedication page, with decorative ruling, reads: "In thankful recognition of the great emergency relief efforts on... More
![Exposition Universelle de 1889 [PHOTO-ALBUM CONTAINING 50 ALBUMEN PRINTS]. n/a.](/pictures/thumb/40854.jpg?v=1464306730)
Paris: NP, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto (7 1/2 x 10 1/4"). Unpaginated. [25] leaves. Original half burgundy over gilt-stamped red cloth, with gold lettering and tooling to spine, and gold lettering to front cover. All edges gilt. Raised bands. Decorative moire endpapers. Striking collection of 50 mounted albumen... More
![Constantinople [WITH 12 MOUNTED ALBUMEN PRINTS]. Sebah & Joaillier.](/pictures/thumb/41799.jpg?v=1481161746)
[Constantinople]: [Sebah & Joaillier], ND (ca 1880). First edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio (10 1/4 x 16"). Unpaginated. Original quarter morocco over blind-stamped burgundy cloth, with gold lettering to front cover. Marbled endpapers. Made of twelve striking albumen prints mounted on heavy card stock, accordion fold, this magnificent panoramic photographic album of... More
![Bordeaux [WITH 12 MOUNTED ALBUMEN PRINTS]. Frères Neurdein, ND Phot.](/pictures/thumb/42062.jpg?v=1486000778)
[Paris]: ND Phot, ND (ca 1890). Original photograph(s). Hardcover. Oblong folio (12 x 16"). Contemporary 3/4 decorative calf over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering to front cover. Decorative endpapers. Collection of twelve lively scenic views of Bordeaux, the famous French port city on the Garonne River, and hub of... More
![Tennyson's Brook [SIGNED & INSCRIBED]. Arthur Brown, Alfred Lord Tennyson.](/pictures/thumb/41323.jpg?v=1471651355)
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Arthur Brown, 1879. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (4) + 13 prints. Green cloth portfolio, with blind stamped ruling and gilt lettering on front cover. Missing original string ties. Inscribed and signed by Brown to English painter Mary B. Barnard. The work is a beautiful collection of 13 carbon photographic... More
Paris: L. Baschet, 1897-1898. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated. [292]pp. Contemporary 3/4 olive cloth over marbled paper covered boards, with gilt-lettered title laid on spine. Original photo-illustrated wrappers bound in. Striking collection of hundreds of duo-tone and b/w photographs depicting scenes of the Gay Paris during the time of... More
Beirut: Bonfils & Cie. ca.1896. Hardcover. Folio. Twenty of thirty ? (4 1/2" x 6 1/2") tinted photogravures mounted on heavy gray card stock resting in color illustrated cloth portfolio with folding flaps. The captivating images of the Holy Land were taken by famous traveler and French photographer Félix Bonfils... More
NP: NP, ND (ca 1880s). Original photographs. Original photographs. Collection of four original albumen print views of 1880s London splendidly captured by pioneer Scottish photographer George Washington Wilson.* Each print measures 11 3/8 x 7 1/2" (mount: 16 3/8 x 14"), and is captioned and initialed in the plate. The... More
NP: NP. Softcover. Oblong Quarto. 20, 20 plates. Original illustrated string-bound heavy and textured mauve, uncut wraps with mauve lettering on cover. Collection of 80 postcard size (3 1/2 x 5 1/2") color and b/w reproductions of photographs and artwork depicting trains from the mid 19th century into the 2000s... More
New York; San Francisco: Sarony; Faber; H. J. Myers, 1890. Original artwork. Original photographs. Press Magnates and Journalists - 8 Cabinet Portraits: 1-2) Two 6 1/2 x 4 1/4" original b/w mounted photographs of James Gordon Bennett, Jr. (1841-1918), publisher of the "New York Herald" founded by his father in... More
Germany: Giesecke & Devrient, [c 1895]. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Twenty-one photogravures by Schulz. Gilt-stamped green cloth binding with slip case portfolio of stiff decorative paper. A few of the prints have very light spots, otherwise very good. Photos of harbors (Hamburg, Anvers, Dartmouth, St. Vincent, Valparaiso, etc..) and views... More
Dresden: Römmler & Jonas, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Small Octavo. 40 plates in original red cloth portfolio with blind-stamped ruling and gilt lettering on cover. Collection of 40 albumen prints, 4 x 5 5/8, of Copenhagen, # 4501-4524 and 4531-4541, published by Römmler & Jonas, three unnumbered prints of Frederiksborg... More
ca. 1870. Symmetrical basket shape of blue sheets of heavy paper with two concentric 'rings' of eight circular (1 1/2") lithographic images each (in sepia-tone) showing views of Washington D.C. Images within golden decorative borders. Central panel with chromolithographed bouquet of flowers. Photographs show the President's residence, State War &... More
NP: NP, Late 19th Cent. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. Brown cloth over illustrated boards featuring three hand-colored color photographic images laid on to cover. Debossed brown lettering on front cover. This album features 29 full-page photo plates featuring reproductions of original hand colored photographs of various sites from around... More
![The Naylor Collection. The Complete History of Photography [SIGNED]. Thurman F. Naylor, Jack.](/pictures/thumb/21475.jpg?v=1496699610)
Arlington, MA: NP, (2005). Softcover. Folio. Unpaginated (34pp). Glossy wrappers bound in bolted aluminum bracket and aluminum backboard covered by textured slide-on wood slipcase. Abrasions on lower part of front wrapper. Five-inch strip of tape remnants on slipcase. Two-inch split on top-edge of slipcase still firmly holding. Foreword by &... More
Budapest: (Kosmata Ferencz), ca late 19th century. Cards. This is an 8 1/4" x 4 1/2" Cabinet Card, featuring a portrait photo of Polish chess champion Szymon Winawer (1838-1919). Winawer was among the first Polish chess masters, and was a major international competitor in European tournaments between 1867-1901, famously winning... More
Ottawa, Canada: The National Gallery of Canada, 1976. First edition. softcover. Quarto. 261 [1]pp. Cream wrappers with photograph laid into embossed frame. Gray endpapers. Half-title and frontispiece self-portrait photographs. More than 200 photographs by one of the pioneers of fine-art photography in France. Text in French and English. Wrappers are... More
NP: NP, 1886-1889. Original document. Original photographs. American Presidents' wives - 5 Cabinet Portraits: 1) A 6 3/8 x 4 1/4" photograph of Mrs. James A. Garfield (born Lucretia Rudolph), wife of the 20th American President who served from March 4, 1881 until his assassination later that year. Picture undated... More
Reading, UK: Garnet Publishing Limited, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 127, [1]pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over black cloth with gold lettering on spine. Photo-illustrated title page. This striking collection of early photographs of Khiva is divided into two parts: First a series of photographs taken in 1858 by a Russian... More
San Francisco: Edward H. Mitchell. Softcover. Oblong 48mo. 22 postcards attached to perforated stubs. Original brown stapled wrappers with small sepia toned paste-on image and embossed brown lettering on cover. Album featuring 22 sepia-toned photographic images of missions in California. Images include missions of San Carlos, San Antonio de Padua... More