Catalogues

E-List 58 EXHIBITION CATALOGUES PART 1

E-List 58 EXHIBITION CATALOGUES PART 1

 I am pleased to offer for sale 95 inexpensive catalogues spanning the years 1890 - 2000, including solo, group and thematic showings as well as regional salons.

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 59 EXHIBITION CATALOGUES PART 2

E-LIST 59 EXHIBITION CATALOGUES PART 2

E-LIST 59  I am pleased to offer for sale 55 inexpensive exhibition catalogues, including solo, group and thematic showings, as well as regional salons.

This is but a fraction of my inventory; for a larger selection, please visit my website https://www.cahanbooks.com.  New additions are uploaded regularly.

E-LIST 57: A FEW RECENT ACQUISITIONS

E-LIST 57: A FEW RECENT ACQUISITIONS

E-LIST 57 I am pleased to offer for sale a selection of recent acquisitions, which includes a portfolio of 12 hand-pulled photogravure plates of female nudes by Laure Albin-Guillot; Bill Brandt's rare second book, LONDRES DE NUIT; a unique album of photographic portraits of noted film producer, David O. Selznick by Cartier-Bresson and others; an early American exhibition catalogue featuring Alfred Stieglitz and his circle; Robert de La Sizeranne's anthology of early Pictorialist, LA PHOTOGRAHIE EST-ELLE UN ART?, Paris 1899; and a large selection of early histories and manuals of the technical developments of the photographic medium.

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 56

E-LIST 56

E-LIST # 56:TRADE CATALOGUES & COMPANY PUBLICATIONS

E-LIST 56 I am pleased to offer for sale a large group of photographic trade catalogues and company publications.  These ephemeral pamphlets are quite scarce, usually discarded when an updated one was issued.  These span the 1880s to the 1950s and were issued by manufacturers and distributors of cameras, lenses, films, papers, and other photographic supplies; most include prices.  Among the companies represented are: AGFA, ANSCO, BAIRD & TATLOCK, BAUSCH & LOMB, BLAIR CAMERA CO., GOERZ OPTICAL, DEFENDER, E. & H.T. ANTHONY, EASTMAN KODAK, GEORGE MURPHY, GEVAERT, GRAFLEX, HALOID CO., HENRI BELLIENI, HESS-IVES, ILFORD, JAMES QUEEN, JOHN ROYLE & SONS, LUMIERE, PAUL LEINERT, ROCHESTER CAMERA CO., SCOVILL MANUFACTURING, TRIPAK LABORATORIES, and VOIGTLANDER.

E-LIST 54: NEVER OVERLOOK THE TECHNICALITIES, PART 3 - STILL HOME ALONE

E-LIST 54: NEVER OVERLOOK THE TECHNICALITIES, PART 3 - STILL HOME ALONE

E-LIST54  I am pleased to offer for sale a selection of newly catalogued items from our large inventory of the technical history of photography.  These include Blanquart-Evrard's INTERVENTION DE L'ART DANS LA PHOTOGRAPHIE, several annual reports, including the first from the International Congress of Photography, Estabrooke's THE FERROTYPE AND HOW TO MAKE IT in a variant binding, Otte's LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY [1858] the first manual on the subject, three works by Henry Peach Robinson, and two editions of Rodger's TWENTY-THREE YEARS UNDER A SKY-LIGHT.

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 53: HOME ALONE - NEVER OVERLOOK THE TECHNICALITIES, PART 2

E-LIST 53: HOME ALONE - NEVER OVERLOOK THE TECHNICALITIES, PART 2

E-LIST53 I am pleased to offer for sale a selection of recent acquisitions, which includes Sir David Brewster's  THE STEREOSCOPE: ITS HISTORY, THEORY, AND CONSTRUCTION, a few exhibition catalogues from the  French EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE INTERNATIONALE 1878 & 1900, Laussedat's RECHERCHES SUR LES INSTRUMENTS, LES MÉTHODES LES DESSIN TOPOGRAPHIQUES, complete in three parts, and a large group of works by Léon Vidal, many inscribed to his mother.

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 52 NEVER OVERLOOK THE TECHNICALITIES

E-List 52 NEVER OVERLOOK THE TECHNICALITIES

E-LIST52 I am pleased to offer for sale a selection of newly catalogued items from our large inventory of the technical history of photography.  These include an early printing of  Daguerre’s process, Becquerel’s exhaustive work on the physics of light and its application in color photography, Disdéri’s rare RENSEIGNEMENTS PHOTOGRAPHIQUES INDISPENSABLES A TOUS, Poitevin’s TRAITÉ DE L’IMPRESSION PHOTOGRAPHIQUE SANS SELS D’ARGENT CONTENANT in first and second editions, manuals on various color processes, travel photography, dry plate, industrial, artificial light, etc.  This is the first in a series of forthcoming lists on the technical history.

 

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.