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PHOTOGRAPHY
The Art-Union, Monthly Journal of the...
The 'first magazine in the world to be illustrated with a photograph.
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Fox TalbotThe Art-Union, Monthly Journal...1846
The Art-Union, Monthly Journal of the...
The 'first magazine in the world to be illustrated with a photograph.
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Fox TalbotThe Art-Union, Monthly Journal...1846
Notices of Sculpture in Ivory, consisting...
The ivories represent European work of the 6th-14th centuries, illustrated in a series of nicely-reproduced albumen prints of varied size.
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Wyatt, M. DigbyNotices of Sculpture in...1856
Rays of Sunlight from South America
A fascinating and early series of photographic views of extraordinary rarity depicting nineteenth century Lima and the guano trade.
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Gardner, Alexander & Henry DeWitt MoultonRays of Sunlight from...1865
Solution générale du problème de la...
First edition of Charles Cros' first book.
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Cros, CharlesSolution générale du problème...1869
An Album of Nineteenth Century Photographs...
A collection of photographs of Egypt, the majority of which are views of classic Egyptian antiquities.
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Bonfils, F. &cAn Album of Nineteenth...c.1870
Street Life in London. With Permanent...
First edition in the variant green publisher's binding.
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Thomson. Thomson, J. & Adolphe SmithStreet Life in London...1877
Souvenir de l'exposition de 1878
Liebert spent the majority of his career photographing the environs of Paris.
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1878 Paris. Liebert, Alphonse JSouvenir de l'exposition de...1878
Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures,...
The earliest published - and uncredited - commission of James Craig Annan, son of Scottish photographer Thomas Annan.
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Annan, James CraigCatalogue of the Collection...1882
Photographic Scenery of the Isle of...
A fascinating pictorial guide to the Isle of WIght and an insight into the Victorian holiday.
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Wayland, H. (Publisher.)Photographic Scenery of the...1883 c.1883
A Description of the Works of...
The lavish collection of Alfred de Rothschild illustrated with photographs in presentation blue morocco.
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Rothschild Collection. Davis, CharlesA Description of the...1884
GALERIE CONTEMPORAINE des illustrations françaises
Complete set of the first series.
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GALERIE CONTEMPORAINE des illustrations...1890 c.1890
Japan, Described and Illustrated by the...
From the Edition de Grand Luxe limited to 50 numbered copies with all photographs hand-coloured - one of the rarest of the editions (the set was published in various editions with different formats and limitations: the Yedo and Orient editions limited to 1,000 copies, the Mikado edition limited to 250 copies, the Imperial and Memorial editions limited to 100 copies, and so on)...
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Brinkley, Captain F. (Editor)Japan, Described and Illustrated...1897
The Old Closes and Streets of...
First expanded edition of Annan's photographic masterpiece, containing 50 photogravure plates, with this one of only 100 copies specially printed for the Corporation of Glasgow.
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Annan, ThomasThe Old Closes and...1900
REVUE DE PHOTOGRAPHIE, La. Publication mensuelle...
Part set of the important early 20th century French photography magazine, published monthly.
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REVUE DE PHOTOGRAPHIE, La...1903–1908
Men of Mark
First edition of Coburn's first book of portraits of the great and good.
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Coburn, Alvin LangdonMen of Mark1913
Moor Park, Rickmansworth. A series of...
First edition.
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CoburnMoor Park, Rickmansworth. A...1914
QUARANTE CLICHES-GLACE de Corot - Daubigny...
From the edition limited to 150 copies, with this one of 5 copies (D) with a suite of proofs of the prints printed in different tones or inverted.
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QUARANTE CLICHES-GLACE de Corot...1921
Photographies Modernes Présentées par Pierre Bost
First edition of Bost's presentation of Modernist photographers, among them André Kertesz, Germaine Krull, Emmanuel Sougez, Maurice Tabard, Roger Parry and Joris Ivens.
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Kertesz, Parry, Krull, Sougez, Tabard &cPhotographies Modernes Présentées par...1927
Die Welt ist Schön. Einhundert photographische...
First edition in the rare dust-jacket, and even RARER wrap-around printed OBI.
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Renger-patzschDie Welt ist Schön...1928
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