![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
![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
![Cabinet d'Armes de sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon III pour faire suite au catalogue dressé par M. A. Penguilly l'Haridon [Collection of 59 albumen prints]. A. Chevallier.](/pictures/thumb/34370.jpg?v=1539735416)
Paris: J. Claye, 1867. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [4]pp (text), [5]pp (plates), 54pp (text), [54]pp (plates). Original half morocco over blind-stamped cloth with black-stamped lettering on spine. Raised bands. Decorative endpapers. Imperial Coat of arms on title page. Striking collation of 54 albumen prints depicting French emperor Napoleon III's impressive... More
![Shanghai Bund (外滩) [FOLD-OUT PANORAMA, W/ 8 ALBUMEN PRINTS]. Kung Tai, 公泰 Gong Tai, photographer.](/pictures/thumb/44545.jpg?v=1539735428)
Shanghai: 公泰照相樓 (Kung Tai Photography Building), ca 1885. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. 3/4 green morroco, over dark grey cloth boards, with a red leather gilt-stamped label on the front cover and gilt tooling to the corners. Accordian-style leporello binding. The book consists of a fold-out panorama composed of 8... 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 Yıldız (crescent moon star) within a circle of exquisite gilt stamped motifs. The..... More
Prague: Jos. R. Vilimek, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Large Oblong Quarto. (6) 500 (6)pp. Original cream cloth with intricate Art Nouveau motif in color on cover and brown, gilt rimmed lettering on cover and spine, housed in an illustrated clam shell box with red and black cloth frame and marbled... More
Hamburg: Boysen & Maasch, 1912. Limited First Edition. Portfolio. 207/300. Folio. (4) 90 plates, 4 of them matted. Original three quarter green cloth over green boards with gilt lettering and collotype laid down on cover, protected by modern mylar. Title page with tipped-in collotype. Suggested by the Hamburg Senate a.... More
Berlin: Photographische Gesellschaft. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong Folio (33 x 41"). (1) 15 plates (31 x 38.5"). Original red cloth portfolio with intricate decorative ruling and design in gilt and black on front cover, blind-stamped on back. Decorative endpapers and flaps. Wilhelm Amberg (1822–1899) is known as a genre painter... 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
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
![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
New York, Berlin; London: Falk; Frau E. Vogelsang; Mora; Sarony; Walery, 1877-1910. Original document. Original photographs. Nine Cabinet Portraits and Photographs of Composers, and Musicians: 1-2) One original photograph, and one cabinet portrait of Victor Herbert (1859-1924), an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Herbert is best known for... 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
![Collection of Eight Original Cabinet Portraits of Press Magnates and Journalists: James Gordon Bennett, Jr.; Horace Greeley; Col. Henry Watterson; Archibald Forbes [SIGNED]; Theodore Tilton; Nelli Bly; Edgar Wilson Nye [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED]. Sarony, Faber, H. J. Myers.](/pictures/thumb/39951.jpg?v=1530662255)
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
New York: J. Gurney & Son, No date. Loose leaf. Photo Card (3 1/2 x 6 1/2"). Stereo view of Samuel Morse (1791–1872) by Jeremiah Gurney. Two photographs (3 3/8 x 2 5/8") pasted to official J. Gurney & Son, 5th Ave, cor. 16th St. New York, photo card from... 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, ND (Early 20th century). 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... 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