Collection of Six Mounted Albumen Photographs of Towns in Austria and Germany

Vienna, Helm, [1868]. First Edition. Photograph. Six 8-1/8" x 5-1/2" albumen photographs on 12-3/4" x 9-3/4" mounts of various towns in Austria and Germany: Spitz, Persenbeug, Strudel, Passau, Weiteneck, and Grein, all from DONAU-ALBUM by Helm of scenes along the Danube. The complete album contained anywhere between 20 and 35 images and has auction records as high as 5000 Euros. Just a bit of fading to the images. Near Fine and scarce Amand Helm was born in 1831 in Teplice (now Czech Republic). His photographic career began in 1861 in Prague. In 1864 he exhibited his landscape photographs and photographs on porcelain at the Vienna Photographic Exhibition. He first published the DONAU-ALBUM in 1868.

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Book number: 020374

Catalogue: 19th Century Photography

Keywords: 19th Century Photography, Austria, Europe, Castles 19th Century Photography Castles Austria Europe

Photographic Scenery of South Africa

n.p. Sam Alexander, 1880. Second Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9" x 11-1/2") in publisher's gilt-decorated morocco leather, with modern rebacking retaining most of the original spine and tinted lithographic title page with onlaid collotype photographic portrait of Sir Bartle Frere, the book's patron; [x], 56 pages with 50 stiff card leaves containing 100 collotypes mounted as pairs on rectos and versos. The photographer, Robert Harris of Port Elizabeth, captured views of all the major South African cities and towns as well as views in Mozambique, Zanzibar, and Zululand. Among the subjects are diamond fields, people, and landscapes. Images generally clean with some foxing to margins and to tissue guards; hinges reinforced with cloth tape. Binding rubbed and worn but still quite presentable. Very Good .

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Book number: 021510

Catalogue: 19th Century Photography

Keywords: 19th Century Photography, Travel, Africa, South Africa, Illustrated Books, Mozambique Travel 19th Century Photography South Africa Illustrated Books

GERNSHEIM, Helmut & Alison

The History of Photography

New York, McGraw-Hill, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 599 pages. A new revised and expanded edition of this monumental reference work, illustrated with 390 photographs and engravings. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 001785

Catalogue: 19th Century Photography

Keywords: Photography Reference Illustrated Books Books on Books