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Monuments arabes d’Égypte, de Syrie et d’Asie mineure, dessinés et mesurés de 1842 à 1845; par Girault de Prangey. Ouvrage faisant suite aux Monuments Arabes de Cordoue, Séville et Grenade, publiés de 1836 à 1839 [title on printed wrapper; issued without a title-page]
Paris, Publiés par l’Auteur (Imprimerie Lithographique de Lemercier; Typographie de Firmin Didot Frères), 1846-1855Fine, complete copy of one of the earliest publications with illustrations based upon daguerreotype originals. In 1842, Girault de Prangey embarked on an ambitious tour of the Mediterranean, travelling through Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. He had begun to experiment a year before with Daguerre’s invention, and took with him a custom-made daguerreotype camera. After travelling for more than two years, he returned to France in early 1845, and began work on a comparative history of Islamic architecture featuring illustrations based on his archive of nearly 900 daguerreotypes, of which some 250 recorded the principal archaeological sites, landscapes, and people of Egypt. According to advertisements, Monuments arabes d’Égypte, de Syrie et d’Asie mineur was projected in twenty to thirty livraisons, each priced sixteen francs, and containing four lithographs printed in two tints accompanied by historical and descriptive text. Only six parts were issued before the publication was abandoned. Although inventoried by the Count de Simony in 1937, and by Helmut Gernsheim in the 1950s, the great majority of Girault de Prangey’s daguerreotypes remained in their original plate boxes, receiving little attention until quite recently. After a large group of plates was seen in the auction rooms, in 2003, it was widely realised that the lithographs illustrating Monuments arabes d’Égypte, de Syrie et d'Asie mineur had been based directly on these daguerreotypes, the artists tracing over the photographic images. -
The Truthful Lens : a survey of the photographically illustrated book, 1844-1914
New York, Grolier Club, 1980(29 cm), xii, 241 (3) pp., including 172 illustrations. 192 catalogue entries. Publisher’s black cloth, the Club arms gilt-stamped on upper cover, red leather spine label; original slipcase covered in grey paper with printed label on spine and upper side (no dust jacket issued). - Pioneering survey of books illustrated by original photographs, based on an exhibition held at the Grolier Club, December 1974. Printed by the Stinehour Press, with plates by the Meriden Gravure Company, in a limited edition of 1000 copies. For Jean Grolier & His Friends: 125 Years of Grolier Club Exhibitions and Publications, 1884-2009 (New York 2009), P315. ¶ Fine copy. -
Photography and architecture 1839-1939
Montreal, Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1982(25.5 × 31.5 cm), 282 (2) pp., 147 black & white plates (2 folding). Publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jacket. - A concise essay by Pare on the history of architectural photography from 1839 to 1939, accompanied by 147 plates (beautifully reproduced by Meriden Gravure) and a catalogue (by Catherine Evans Inbusch and Marjorie Munsterberg) providing brief biographies of the photographers, technical data on the images, and notes on the buildings and sites. “Rarely has such a lavish collection of beautiful images been brought together in a book and presented so elegantly” (from a review by Joel Herschman, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, volume 42, 1983, pp.405-406). ¶ Fine copy. -
The Art of French calotype : With a critical dictionary of photographers, 1845-1870
Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1983(24 × 27 cm), xxiv, 284 pp., 69 full-page plates, 131 figures/illustrations throughout text. Publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jacket. - “The most complete, the most scrupulously researched, and certainly the most beautiful book on the art of the French calotype… The amount of new information is extraordinarily rich - so much so that obscure and virtually forgotten photographers can no longer be ignored”. “The plates are quite simply marvellous. Printed on acid-free paper, they exude all the distinctive mystique of the calotype” (quotations from a review by Ronald Pickvance, in The Burlington Magazine, volume 126, 1984, pp.365-366). ¶ Dust jacket shelf worn. Excellent, unmarked copy. -
Incunabula of British photographic literature : A bibliography of British photographic literature 1839-75 and British books illustrated with original photographs
London & Berkeley, Scolar Press / Derbyshire College of Higher Education, 1984(30.5 cm), 159 (1) pp., illustrations. 1260 catalogue entries. Publisher’s boards, dust jacket. - An annotated bibliography based on the author’s own extensive collection of some 4,000 books and journals (sold in 1963 to the University of Texas). ¶ Excellent, unmarked copy. -
A shifting focus : Photography in India 1850-1900 (catalogue of the traveling exhibition held at National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, 15 October 1995-13 September 1996; continued elsewhere in India)
London, British Library, 1995(24.5 cm), 84 pp. (some folding), illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - 153 catalogue entries. Essays by John Falconer (A shifting focus : Photography in India 1850-1900), Satish Sharma (Hidden Histories: the Colonial Encounter), Michael Gray (The First Photographic Processes: Some technical notes). ¶ As new. -
Salts of silver, toned with gold : the Harrison D. Horblit collection of early photography (catalogue of an exhibition held at the Houghton Library, Harvard University, 10 March-26 May 1999)
Cambridge, MA / Seattle, Houghton Library, Harvard University / University of Washington Press, 1999(28 cm), xiii (1), 173 (1) pp., illustrations. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - The “Harrison D. Horblit Collection of Early Photography”, presented to the Houghton Library in 1995 by Jean Horblit, in memory of her husband, comprises more than 7000 daguerreotypes, photographic prints, books illustrated with original photographs, early photographic albums, cameras, and manuscripts, from the discovery of photography from the 1830s through the turn of the century. ¶ Excellent, unmarked copy. -
La Photographie : Collection Marie-Thérèse et André Jammes : 19th and 20th century photographs § La Photographie II : Collection Marie-Thérèse et André Jammes § La Photographie III : Collection Marie-Thérèse et André Jammes, l'oeuvre de Charles Nègre (catalogues for auctions conducted by Sotheby's, London and Paris, 27 October 1999-22 March 2002)
London, Sotheby's, 1999-2002Three volumes (27 cm), as issued, in publisher’s printed wrappers. - Parts I-III only; lacking the final part, “La photographie IV : collection Marie-Thérèse et André Jammes” (catalogue for an auction conducted by Sotheby’s France SA, Paris, 15 November 2008). ¶ Unmarked copies. -
Photographs (catalogue for an auction conducted by Sotheby's, London, 10 May 2001)
London, Sotheby's, 2001(27 cm), 142 (2) pp., illustrations (some in colour). Lots 301-505. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ -
Fine photographs from the collection of Paul F. Walter (catalogue for an auction conducted by Sotheby's, London, 10 May 2001)
London, Sotheby's, 2001(27 cm), 186 (2) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 223 lots. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - A collection assembled in the period 1975-1985. Contents: Travels in the Mediterranean and beyond (lots 1-37); early British photography (lots 38-135); early French photography (136-177); towards the fin de siècle and into the new century (lots 178-223). ¶ Unmarked copy. No Price list. -
Important daguerreotypes by Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey from the archive of the artist (catalogues for auctions conducted by Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 20 May 2003-18 May 2004)
London, Christie, Manson & Woods, 2003Two volumes, (27 cm), as issued, in the publisher’s printed wrappers. - Not present here is a catalogue for a third sale of daguerreotypes by Joseph Philibert Girault de Prangey, conducted by Christie’s, New York, 7 October 2010. ¶ Unmarked copies.
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