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RARE BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS, MAPS & PHOTOGRAPHS Wednesday, April 26, 2017 NEW YORK RARE BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS, MAPS & PHOTOGRAPHS AUCTION Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 10am EXHIBITION Saturday, April 22, 10am – 5pm Sunday, April 23, Noon – 5pm Monday, April 24, 10am – 5pm Tuesday, April 25, 10am – 2pm LOCATION Doyle New York 175 East 87th Street New York City 212-427-2730 www.Doyle.com Catalogue: $35 PHOTOGRAPHS CONTENTS Photographs Early Photography 1-14 20th Century Photography 15-122 Contemporary Photography 123-141 Rare Books, Autographs & Maps Printed & Manuscript Americana 142-197 Maps, Atlases & Travel Books 198-236 Property of the Estate of Donald Brenwasser 202-220 INCLUDING PROPERTY Plate Books 237-244 FROM THE ESTATES OF Donald Brenwasser Fine Bindings & Private Press 245-283 Roberta K. Cohn and Richard A. Cohn, Ltd Property of the Estate of Richard D. Friedlander 254-283 Richard D. Friedlander Mary Kettaneh Autographs 284-307 A New York and Connecticut Estate The Jessye Norman The Thurston Collection. ‘White Gates’ Collection 284-294 Manuscripts & Early printing 308-360 The College of New Rochelle INCLUDING PROPERTY FROM Collection of Thomas More 308-321 The Explorers Club Collection The College of New Rochelle Literature 361-414 A Prominent New York Family The College of New Rochelle The Jessye Norman ‘White Gates’ Collection Collection of James Joyce 361-381 A Private Collector, Ardsley, NY Pat Koch Thaler, sister of Edward Koch Applied Art & Livres d’Artistes 415-432 The Collection of Walter Ward, Jr The Watermill Center, Water Mill, New York Helen R. Yellin Conditions of Sale I Terms of Guarantee II Information on Sales & Use Tax III Buying at Doyle IV Selling at Doyle VI Auction Schedule VII Company Directory VIII Absentee Bid Form X Lot 24 5 [CIRCUS] Collection of 19th century cabinet cards and cartes des visites. Includes ten cabinet cards with images of W. H. Stuart (autographed), Karoo (“the Congo giant”), and a selection of unnamed other giants, “World’s Heaviest” men and women, a snake-handler, a contortionist and other standards of carney and circus; the CDVs include “the World’s Oldest Man,” two performers with albinism, and two cards of child performers. Fifteen cards in all, between 1870 and 1900, all on mounts as issued, the largest 8 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches (214 x 113 mm). Some wear to corners etc., but a rare and interesting group of 19th century vernacular images pertaining to carnivals etc. C Property from The Watermill Center, Water Mill, New York $500-750 See Illustration 6 [CLASS ALBUM] Early photographic Class Album of The Free Academy (later, City College) of New York. The spine title is Free Academy Souvenir (no formal title page was issued). New York: 1855. Contemporary full black morocco, spine and upper board ruled, lettered in gilt “Class of 55 [rule] Walter Brinckerhoff, Jr.”, spine titled as noted, marbled endpapers. 11 1/8 x 8 7/8 inches (22.5 x 28 cm); the album contains 31 salt print portraits (oval, about 89 mm at the largest diameter), plus 5 autographs and sentiments. Neatly rebacked retaining original spine, boards lightly bumped along edges, scattered (mostly light) foxing, some edge-fading to a few of the salt prints. The first 13 pages have autographed sentiments from the first president of City College, Horace Webster, and a number of professors. This is followed by 31 leaves with salt print portrait of a graduating student, mounted within a printed border, and with facsimile signatures of the subject. Each image has a tissue guard, and an additional page on which classmates wrote sentiments to the album’s owner, Walter Brinckerhoff, Jr. Laid in is a copy of Merit Roll, New York Free Academy, July 1854 and 4 duplicate salt prints. These are among the earliest photographic portraits of graduates of 1 3 higher education in the United States. The only earlier publications (as opposed to group daguerreotypes, a different type of class souvenir) of which we are aware are the Harvard Class Albums, the earliest of which Early Photography we find is recorded as 1852. This album includes written sentiments 3 (though no photographs) by such prominent professors as Horace Webster, 1 [ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY] Wolcott Gibbs, and Charles Edward Anthon. A few students of note are [ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY] RUTHERFURD, LEWIS MORRIS (1816-1892). [The Moon] From also present: Elihu Dwight Church was a partner in what became the Arm Group of four books. Includes MOUCHEZ, ERNEST BARTHELMY. a Negative taken at the Observatory of Mr. L. M. Rutherfurd ... and Hammer Baking Soda firm; Everett P. Wheeler was a prominent La Photographie astronomique à L’Obervatoire de Paris et la carte May 19, 1874. Albumen print on the black card mount of issue, lawyer and civic reformer and a founder of the New York Bar; Charles B. Hayes, du ciel. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1887. First edition. Elegant modern image 9 x 6 1/4 inches (228 x 158 mm), the mount label indicating was a sergeant in the Muscatine County Volunteers; and Henry A. Post half morocco, marbled sides. With four superb mounted photographs that this was printed and published by O.G. Mason, Photographer, was a colonel in command of the 2nd Regiment Sharpshooters from with overlay keys, taken by Paul and Prosper Henry, and three New York City, providing additionally the observatory latitude and 1861-1863. The edition was unlikely to have been much larger than the heliogravure plates, one folding; VOGEL, H. La Photographie et la longitude and the sidereal time of the exposure. Very minor wear, thirty-one graduates (and, presumably, a few copies for their professors). 6 Chimie de la Lumière. Paris: Germer Ballière, 1880. Original cloth. overall a fine example with rich, beautiful tones. C With a Woodburytype print of the moon by Lewis Rutherfurd. Front A remarkable early large-format image of the moon by Rutherfurd, $3,000-4,000 joint split; KEELER, JAMES EDWARD. Publications of the Lick a pioneering astrophotographer, who had abandoned his legal See Illustration Observatory. Volume VIII: Nebulae and Clusters. Sacramento: career in 1849 to pursue his astronomical studies. He was called W. W. Shannon, 1908. Original cloth. With 70 fine heliogravure (with justice) the greatest lunar photographer of the age, by Richard plates after Keeler’s photographs of the unrecorded nebulae. 7 Proctor, the English astronomer. Oscar G. Mason, who prepared About fine; GIONO, JEAN. Le Poids du Ciel. Paris: 1928, NRF/ [CLASS ALBUM] this image, was the official photographer at Bellevue Hospital in Gallimard. One of 6,000 copies. Original wrappers. With thirty [Spine title] Class of 1858 Columbia College. [New York]: 1858. One of New York. He consulted for Rutherfurd on astronomic and spectral astrophotographs reproduced. about 30 copies (based on the number of portraits). Full brown pebbled photography, keeping a private office at 333 E. 26th Street for his C grain morocco with the ticket of Forster, Job Book Binder, 142 Fulton telescopic and freelance projects. $2,000-3,000 Street, New York, both front cover and spine with the motto Foedus C See Illustration amicitiae tacitum mors sola movebit [roughly “Only the silence of death $5,000-8,000 can disturb the bonds of friendship”]. 9 3/4 x 8 5/8 inches (25 x 22 cm); See Illustration with 24 oval prints (salt or albumen) on mounts, each 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches 2 with tissue guards. Light wear, some toning of many of the portraits, [ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY-STEREOSCOPY] 4 an 1858 invitation to the inauguration of new professors mounted to WOLF, MAX. Stereoskopbilder von Sternhimmel. 1. Serie. [AMERICAN VIEWS] the pastedown. With two inscriptions opposite portraits, one of which Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1913. “4th Auflage.” Original Group of five views. Includes Nevada Falls, Yosemite by may be the first owner, Philip P. Baxter, and a bookplate of the N. I. fabric-lined folding case. Set of 12 vintage stereographs (apparently Carleton Watkins (on later mount); Monument Park, The Quakers Bienstock Library. gelatin silver prints) of astronomical subjects, accompanied by by William Henry Jackson, and three fine images of Old Faithful and C explanatory text, each 3 3/8 x 6 1/2 inches (86 x 165 mm). other Yellowstone geysers (possibly also by Jackson). $1,500-2,500 Slight wear, but a sound set. Most 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches See Illustration C (167 x 215 mm) or the reverse, or slightly larger. $600-900 C Property from The Watermill Center, Water Mill, New York $400-600 7 6 DOYLE • APRIL 26, 2017 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 7 15 8 9 12 8 10 12 20th Century Photography [CLASS ALBUM] [SENATE ALBUM] CURTIS, EDWARD SHERIFF Harvard College Photographs 1865. Photographic Senatorial Album of the (1868-1952) Group of ten photogravures. 15 16 [Cambridge]: 1865. Full brown pebbled grain morocco, Empire State 1860-61. Albany: Small-format, printed on tissue and now ABRANOWICZ, WILLIAM (b. 1956) front cover with the name of William H. Warren (a member D. Dennison, 1865. Full green pebbled tipped to mounts, extracted from the Nine Photographs. New York: [The Witkin Gallery], of the Class of 1865, later a clergyman), spine in six grain morocco, front cover lettered text volumes of The North American 1983. One of 50 sets, this number 17. Tan linen portfolio compartments, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. “T.A. Gardiner”, spine in five Indian, 1907-1930, most apparently lettered in gilt, as issued. [4] pp. text; nine gelatin silver 13 1/4 x 10 1/8 inches (33 x 26 cm); [2] pp. printed title, compartments, coated endpapers, all from volume III, The Teton Sioux.