Catalogues
Elist 42.2
Part 2 of a collection of women photographers.
(Part 1, Elist 42, can be found here.)
Elist 41 RECENT ACQUISITIONS
E-LIST 41 I am pleased to offer for sale a selection of recent acquisitions which include a scarce manual of Pictorialist printing processes, the proceedings for the first American Photographic Conference, Bernard's manual of techniques suitable for a bicyclist, Les Krim's MAKING CHICKEN SOUP, Lafon de Camarsac's guide to enamel and ceramic portraits, and an invitation to view Muybridge's proofs for ANIMAL LOCOMOTION.
This sampling is but a fraction of my inventory; for a larger selection, please visit my website http://www.cahanbooks.com. New additions are uploaded regularly.
E-LIST #40: A FEW RECENT ACQUISITIONS
E-LIST40 I am pleased to offer for sale a selection of recent acquisitions which include a humorous "Allmyknack" from 1873, two signed works by Walter Chappell, Colson's annotated anthology of the letters and papers of early inventors, Henry Goodwin's Stockholm with 39 tipped-in photogravures, THE NATURE-PRINTED BRITISH SEA-WEEDS complete in four volumes, Niewengloski's early work on RAYONS X, and a seemingly unique illustrated American trade catalogue from 1858.
This sampling is but a fraction of my inventory; for a larger selection, please visit my website http://www.cahanbooks.com. New additions are uploaded regularly.
E-LIST #39: RECENT ACQUISITIONS
E-LIST 39 I am pleased to offer for sale a selection of recent acquisitions which include an artist's book with original photographs by Tina Barney, photomontages by Herbert Bayer and E. McKnight Kauffer, H.P. Robinson's PICTORIAL EFFECT IN PHOTOGRAPHY in first edition, and Richard Wright's 12 MILLION BLACK VOICES in dust jacket.
This sampling is but a fraction of my inventory; for a larger selection, please visit my website http://www.cahanbooks.com. New additions are uploaded regularly.
E-LIST #38: IN THE BEGINNING
E-LIST 38 I am pleased to offer for sale this group of 74 entries which constitute the critical treatises, manuals and histories of the development of photography, from the first book that suggests the possibility, GIPHANTIA, a work of science fiction, 1761; the ground breaking processes of Daguerre and Talbot; the manuscript processing notes of Hugh Welch Diamond, one of the founding fathers of British photography; the advanced paper process of Le Gray; the advent of the motion picture in a large group of works by Marey and Muybridge; the first viable color processes of Ducos Du Hauron and Cros, with the first work to contain a color photograph from nature by Blanquart-Évrard; and the first work to document the advances of the photomechnical print, also by Blanquart-Évrard. There is a complete set of the Société Française de Photographie's, CATALOGUE DE LA EXPOSITION ANNUELLE, 1857 - 1876. These works are a small selection from my inventory of nearly 1000 technical manuals and treatises. Please inquire for specific titles.
This sampling is but a fraction of my inventory; for a larger selection, please visit my website http://www.cahanbooks.com. New additions are uploaded regularly.
Elist 37: Signed & Inscribed
E-LIST 37 I am pleased to offer for sale 32 monographs, original photographs and ephemeral items by some of the leading photographers of the twentieth century; all are SIGNED or INSCRIBED. These include: Berenice Abbott, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Richard Avedon, Lewis Baltz, Harry Callahan, Harold Edgerton, Emmet Gowin, Eikoh Hosoe, Andre Kertesz, Danny Lyon, Irving Penn, Robert Rauschenberg, Josef Sudek, Brett Weston, Edward Weston, Minor White, and others.