Lot of 5 Titles On The History of Photography Author: Various authors Place: Various places Publisher: Various publishers Date: Various dates Description: Gernsheim, Helmut. Creative Photography; Aesthetic Trends 1839-1960. Boston Book & Art Shop. 1962. 258 pp. Illustrations, short biographies of photographers illustrated, processes, bibliography and study list, index. (8vo) 11¼px8¾", gray cloth, blue inset spine title block stamped in silver, illustrated dust jacket. First American Edition. The first comprehensive study written and illustrated exclusively from the artistic aspect of photography's picture making capacity. The history of photography from the daguerreotype to modern photo-reportage by the foremost historian of photography. Hartman, Sadakichi. The Valiant Knights of Daguerre; Selected Critical Essays on Photography and Profiles of Photographic Pioneers. University of California Press. 1978. 364 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index of names. (4to) 11x9¼", gray cloth, spine title stamped in black, title blind stamped on front cover, illustrated dust jacket. First Edition. Signed by Harry Lawton, Editor, under his name at the end of the Preface. Also includes: The Life and Times of Sadakichi Hartmann, an exhibition at the University of California, Riverside May 1 to May 31, 1970. Jackson, Clarence S. Picture Maker of the Old West; William H. Jackson Charles Scribner's Sons. 1947. 308 pp. Photographic illustrations, index. (4to) 12x9¼", red-brown cloth lettered with floral embossed spine and front embossed with a bison head and arrows, map illustrated end papers, full color dust jacket. First Edition ["A" on copyright page]. Meredith, Roy. Mr. Lincoln's Contemporaries: An Album of Portraits by Mathew B. Brady. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1951. xii, 233 pp. Photographs, index. (4to) 11¼x7¾", light blue cloth, blue spine and front cover stamping, illustrated endpapers, pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. Moss, George H., Jr. Double Exposure: Early Stereographic Views of Historic Monmouth County, New Jersey and Their Relationship to Pioneer Photography. Ploughshare Press. 1971. 176 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, checklist. (4to) 12x9¼", tan cloth, gilt stamped spine and front cover, illustrated dust jacket, plastic stereo viewer. First Edition. Sadakichi Hartmann, in full Carl Sadakichi Hartmann, was born on November 8, 1867, in Nagasaki, Japan and died on November 21, 1944, in St. Petersburg, Florida. American art critic, novelist, poet, and man of letters. Hartmann was the son of a German father and Japanese mother. As a young man Hartmann became acquainted with many of the major artistic and literary figures in Europe and the United States. A writer for Boston and New York City newspapers in the 1880s and ’90s, Hartmann started the Art Critic in 1893, and became a follower of the photographer Alfred Stieglitz His articles appeared regularly in Camera Work, Stieglitz’s revolutionary magazine, where Hartmann wrote about photography with the same zeal he brought to his essays about art. Double Exposure: Early Stereographic Views of Historic Monmouth County, New Jersey and Their Relationship to Pioneer Photography. Historical survey of 19th century stereoviews of people and places in Monmouth County, New Jersey, and the photographers who produced them. Includes introductory chapters on daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes. Lot Amendments Condition: Near fine. Lots sold without reserve are sold “as Is” and are not returnable under any circumstances. The minimum shipping and handling per invoice is $20 for shipments to the US and $30 for shipments outside the US please consider this when determining your bid amount Item number: 319754
Lot of 5 Titles On The History of Photography Author: Various authors Place: Various places Publisher: Various publishers Date: Various dates Description: Gernsheim, Helmut. Creative Photography; Aesthetic Trends 1839-1960. Boston Book & Art Shop. 1962. 258 pp. Illustrations, short biographies of photographers illustrated, processes, bibliography and study list, index. (8vo) 11¼px8¾", gray cloth, blue inset spine title block stamped in silver, illustrated dust jacket. First American Edition. The first comprehensive study written and illustrated exclusively from the artistic aspect of photography's picture making capacity. The history of photography from the daguerreotype to modern photo-reportage by the foremost historian of photography. Hartman, Sadakichi. The Valiant Knights of Daguerre; Selected Critical Essays on Photography and Profiles of Photographic Pioneers. University of California Press. 1978. 364 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index of names. (4to) 11x9¼", gray cloth, spine title stamped in black, title blind stamped on front cover, illustrated dust jacket. First Edition. Signed by Harry Lawton, Editor, under his name at the end of the Preface. Also includes: The Life and Times of Sadakichi Hartmann, an exhibition at the University of California, Riverside May 1 to May 31, 1970. Jackson, Clarence S. Picture Maker of the Old West; William H. Jackson Charles Scribner's Sons. 1947. 308 pp. Photographic illustrations, index. (4to) 12x9¼", red-brown cloth lettered with floral embossed spine and front embossed with a bison head and arrows, map illustrated end papers, full color dust jacket. First Edition ["A" on copyright page]. Meredith, Roy. Mr. Lincoln's Contemporaries: An Album of Portraits by Mathew B. Brady. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1951. xii, 233 pp. Photographs, index. (4to) 11¼x7¾", light blue cloth, blue spine and front cover stamping, illustrated endpapers, pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. Moss, George H., Jr. Double Exposure: Early Stereographic Views of Historic Monmouth County, New Jersey and Their Relationship to Pioneer Photography. Ploughshare Press. 1971. 176 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, checklist. (4to) 12x9¼", tan cloth, gilt stamped spine and front cover, illustrated dust jacket, plastic stereo viewer. First Edition. Sadakichi Hartmann, in full Carl Sadakichi Hartmann, was born on November 8, 1867, in Nagasaki, Japan and died on November 21, 1944, in St. Petersburg, Florida. American art critic, novelist, poet, and man of letters. Hartmann was the son of a German father and Japanese mother. As a young man Hartmann became acquainted with many of the major artistic and literary figures in Europe and the United States. A writer for Boston and New York City newspapers in the 1880s and ’90s, Hartmann started the Art Critic in 1893, and became a follower of the photographer Alfred Stieglitz His articles appeared regularly in Camera Work, Stieglitz’s revolutionary magazine, where Hartmann wrote about photography with the same zeal he brought to his essays about art. Double Exposure: Early Stereographic Views of Historic Monmouth County, New Jersey and Their Relationship to Pioneer Photography. Historical survey of 19th century stereoviews of people and places in Monmouth County, New Jersey, and the photographers who produced them. Includes introductory chapters on daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes. Lot Amendments Condition: Near fine. Lots sold without reserve are sold “as Is” and are not returnable under any circumstances. The minimum shipping and handling per invoice is $20 for shipments to the US and $30 for shipments outside the US please consider this when determining your bid amount Item number: 319754
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