San Francisco: Taber, Photo, (n. d.). Ca late 1880s. Taber imprint in photograph bottom band; verso with large Taber imprint, including woodcut of his building, 8 Montgomery Street. Photograph: 4-7/8" x 8". Card: 5-5/16" x 8-3/8". Card mount with slightly rounded corners. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. This..... More
![MATER MISERICORDIAE HOSPITAL. 23rd St. Q & R Sacramento 1895 [caption title]. Photograph -...](/pictures/thumb/46318.jpg?v=1543516279)
[Sacramento]: 1898. Frame: 10-1/4" x 12-5/8". Photograph: 6-1/8" x 8-1/4". Housed in an old, faded black wood frame. "The Sisters of Mercy broke ground on Sacramento's first private hospital, Mater Misericordiae (Latin for "Mother of Mercy") in the mid-1890s. The hospital was one of the most modern and best equipped..... More
New York. 1972. 1st Printing. Unpaginated. Illustrated from photographs. Cover photograph by Jay Dusard (1937 -). 9-3/4" x 8-6/8". Original paper covers. Photographs and words by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Eric Schroeder, Roger Lipsey, Eric Johnson and Lincoln Kirstein. More
New York. Aperture, Inc., 1972. 1st Edition thus. (Also published as Aperture 13.1 in 1967.). [1-6], 7-73, [74-77], [3 (blank)] pp. Illustrated from photographs. Cover photograph by Paul Caponigro (1932 -). 9-3/4" x 8-6/8". Original paper covers. All works by Paul Caponigro. More
New York. Published intermittently in Rochester, New York. Printed by Davis, Delaney, Inc., New York City. 1967. 1st Printing. [1 (blank)], 57, [58-62] pp. Illustrated from photographs. Cover photograph by Paul Caponigro (1932 -). 9-1/4" x 8". Original paper covers. All works by Paul Caponigro. More
New York. Published intermittently in Rochester, New York. Printed by Morgan Press, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. 1965. 1st Printing. [93-106], 107-131, [132-136] pp. Illustrated from photographs. Cover photograph by Marie Cosindas (1923 -). 9-1/4" x 8". Original paper covers, stapled. Works by John Brook, Joan Miró, Edmund Teske, Minor White and..... More
New York. Published quarterly in Rochester, New York. Printed by Smith-Hart in Rochester, N. Y.. 1961. 1st Printing. [1-19], 20-41, [42-44] pp. Illustrated from photographs. Cover photograph by Jack Franks. 9-1/4" x 8". Original paper covers, stapled. Photographs and writings by Jack Franks, Robert Frank, Jonathan Williams, Edna Bennett and..... More
San Francisco / New York. Published quarterly in Rochester, New York. Printed by Smith-Hart in Rochester, N. Y.. 1960. 1st Printing. [1-3], 4-66, [67-68] pp. Illustrated from photographs. Cover photograph of Alfred Stieglitz by Dorothy Norman (1905 - 1997). 9-1/4" x 8". Original paper covers, stapled. Photographs by Dorothy Norman..... More
San Francisco: 1952. 1st Printing. Divers paginations. Illustrated from photographs. Divers sizes. Original paper covers. "The magazine was founded in 1952 by a consortium of photographers and proponents of photography: Ansel Adams, Melton Ferris, Dorothea Lange, Ernest Louie, Barbara Morgan, Beaumont Newhall, Nancy Newhall, Dody Warren, and Minor White. It..... More
[Surrey, England]: (n. d.). Ca mid-1880s. Single albumen photograph. Oblong orientation: 5-1/4" x 7-11/16". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve, with archival whiteboard backing. The heritage of the hotel dates back to the 16th C and Henry the VIII. The present building built in 1794, with subsequent modifications, as..... More
San Francisco: 1912. 2nd generation photograph (?). Photograph: 6-5/8" x 8-5/8". Mount: 9" x 10-7/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A rare item of San Francisco local history, this photograph documents a short-lived restaurant operated by Joseph S. Lincecum, located at 694 McAllister Street. Mount verso with prior..... More
(n. p.): (n. d.). Ca 1860s. Square photographs, mounted on a flat yellow card, square corners. No photographer imprint. Oblong format: 3-1/4" x 6-3/4". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A prior owner has noted in pencil on the verso: "Gadshill / Chas. Dickens", however, it is our professional..... More
(n. p.): c. 1924 - 1932. 45 unnumbered album leaves with numerous items slipped in, and approx. 30 loose items. Hundreds of b/w photos, postcards, ms letters, playbills, menus, newspaper and magazine clippings, original sketches and watercolor paintings, invitations, receipts, church programs Album: 10-1/2" x 14-1/2" Quarter dark-blue leather and..... More
(n. p.): (n. d.). C. 1899 - 1902. [48] pp., ms annotations in pencil. 91 original b/w photographs, all about 3-1/8" x 3-1/8", slipped under the leaves into square frames, one b/w photo postcard slipped in. Oblong format: 7" x 11-1/2" Period red cloth album with "Photographs" stamped in silver..... More
London / Edinburgh: Reeves & Turner / William Patterson, 1871. Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. 2 volumes: vi, [2], 243, [1]; vii, [1 (blank)], 319, [1 (blank)] pp. Published without the numerous plates found in the first edition of 1866. 8-3/4" x 7". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt..... More
Rochester: 2009. Later printing. SIGNED by the author. 116 pp (including Index). Illustrated. Laid-in chart: IDENTIFICATION FLOW-CHART. 4to. Yellow slick-paper covers. More
Soeul, Korea: 1952. 25 leaves of black 'construction' mounting paper. 199 b/w images, of the 'snapshot' variety [3 spots evident were photos probably removed]. Approximately 10% captioned with white ink [no images examined out of the album, so additonal captions may be present on versos]. Album: 8-3/4" x 1`2-1/2". Images..... More
Littleton, N. H. Published by B. W. Kilburn, (1899). Peach colored mount, rounded corners, with imprint to right [copyright notice] & left ["James M. Davis"] of image, caption underneath. Verso with Kilburn imprint. Image shows a slough & waterwheel, as well as other mining paraphernalia. Two separate images, square cut..... More
(n. p.): (n. d.). Ca 1880s. Photograph: 4-1/2" x 6-3/4". Mount: 6-3/8" x 8-3/8" 19th C. albumen photograph of the Walter Baker Pierce Mill, in Dorchester Massachusetts. "Built in 1872 after the designs of Nathanial J. Bradlee and Walter T. Winslow, the Pierce Mill at 1220 Adams Street is a...... More
1939. 14 b/w images, 7-7/8" x 9-7/8". Possibly unpublished; while it's entirely reasonable to expect these images may have been published in a small forum, such as in a government journal or report, initial research is unable to confirm such. Initially appointed by President Taft in 1911, no doubt as..... More
New York: Underwood & Underwood, Publishers, (1901). Cf. Waldsmith, p. 182. No guidebook. 20 (of 24?) unnumbered b/w albumen stereo photos mounted on heavy pale-peach card stock; captions describing each scene. Versos blank. Complete list of views supplied on request. Box: 3-3/4" x 7-1/4". Housed in an original publisher's black..... More
1948. 30 leaves of black mounting-stock paper. 118 b/w photographs [evidence of some removed], plus 10 RPPCs. Most photographs captioned, as are all RPPCs. Album: 7-1/2" x 10-3/4". Images mainly 2-1/2" x 3-1/4" [xx] and 3-1/2" x 5-1/8". Photographs mounted in a twin-screwpost commercial photograph album. The "General W. A...... More
Vallejo, Cal. Chas. McMillan, (n. d.). Ca 1890s. Image shows a mustashioed, albeit otherwise unidentified, man, in his sailor garb, hands at hips, standing on what appears to be a battleship deck [but is actually a staged background]. Photograph: 5-1/2" x 3-7/8". Mount: 7-7/16" x 5-1/4", with photographer imprint at..... More
Seattle, Washington: The Puget Sound News Company, [1902]. 1st printing. OCLC records 4 institutional holdings. Two pages of text: title page & "Facts About Seattle". Blank leaf at front & rear. 20 captioned b/w images on 16 leaves, recto only. Oblong format: 6-7/8" x 9-1/4". Printed grey stiff-stock wrappers, with..... More
![BROWN UNIVERSITY. Class of '81. [Cover title]. Class Photograph Album, William Llewellyn -...](/pictures/thumb/42951.jpg?v=1542149437)
[Providence, RI]: [1881]. 1st edition thus. 27 leaves of stiff-stock mounting board. Album contains 200+ original albumen photographs. Folio. 16-1/2" x 12-1/2". 3/4 brown leather album with gilt stamped title lettering to front board. Bevelled edges. AEG. Marbled eps. A hefty class photo album of Brown University students and faculty..... More
