Recent Aquisitions

A collection of women photographers.

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 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.