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Fairchild, Herman Le Roy. - A History of the New York Academy of Sciences Formerly the Lyceum of Natural History. By Herman le Roy Fairchild, Recording Secretary. Read, in Abstract, Before the Society, May 18, 1886.
New York: Published by the Author, 1887. 1887. - Octavo, 10 inches high by 6-1/4 inches wide. Yellow boards. The soiled & rubbed covers are detached and the spine has perished. xii & 190 deckle-edged pages, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of John S. Newberry and 33 full-page plates, including 26 portraits and 7 plates depicting related New York City buildings. Of the plates, 11 are artotype portraits by Edward Bierstadt. The overlapping edges of a few pages are creased and lightly chipped. The contents are bright and near fine and the book would be well-worth rebinding. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies. RARE. Among the 34 plates are 11 Artotype photographic portraits by Edward Bierstadt. These consist of portraits of: John Strong Newberry, physician, geologist and paleontologist Charles A. Joy, chemist Benjamin Nicholas Martin, scientist Charles M. Wheatley, miner and palaeontologist Thomas Bland, geographer (esp. West Indies) John H. Redfield, botanist Robert Dinwiddie, naturalist Henry Carrington Bolton, chemist and bibliographer of science Daniel S. Martin, geologist Oliver Payson Hubbard, professor of chemistry and pharmacology, mineralogy, and geology at Dartmouth William P. Trowbridge, mechanical engineer, military officer, and naturalist In addition, the book is illustrated with 5 photogravure portraits consisting of the following: Thomas Egleston, engineer who helped found Columbia University's School of Mines Alexis A. Julien, geologist John H. Hinton Albert Ripley Leeds, chemist Herman LeRoy Fairchild, geologist There are an additional 4 engraved portraits: Samuel L. Mitchill, physician, naturalist, politician William C. Redfield, meteorologist Asa Gray, botanist John C. Jay, physician, conchologist, a founder of the New York Yacht Club Another 7 portraits are printed on glossy stock: John Brodhead Beck, physician, an authority on miscarriage, abortion, infant physiology James E. De Kay, zoologist Joseph Delafield, mineralogist, soldier, diplomat John Torrey, botanist, chemist, and physician William Cooper, zoologist Robert H. Brownne, botanist Louis Elsberg, medicine Pictured are the following New York City buildings: College of Physicians and Surgeons, Barclay Street New York Institution, the old Almshouse New York Dispensary, White and Centre Streets The Lyceum Building, 563 Broadway Stuyvesant Institute University Medical College on 14th Street Hamilton Hall, Columbia College Edward Bierstadt's (1824-1906) younger brother, the well known Hudson River School artist Albert Bierstadt studied painting in Europe and brought back with him knowledge of Joseph Albert's new patented process of printing photographs, called Albertypes. Edward and his older brother Charles Bierstadt were photographic pioneers in their own rights. They operated a photographic studio in New Bedford, Massachusetts and a decade later, moved to New York City. The brothers took pleasure in inventing new techniques and devices. Artotypes, which Bierstadt produced, are defined as a form of photolithograph printed in ink from a photographic plate in bichromated gelatin. Good .
USD 450.00 [Appr.: EURO 420.75 | £UK 359 | JP¥ 70553] Booknumber: 96300
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USD 450.00 [Appr.: EURO 420.75 | £UK 359 | JP¥ 70553] Booknumber: 96300
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Total: USD 450.00 [Appr.: EURO 420.75 | £UK 359 | JP¥ 70553]
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