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With Original Albumen Photographs 40 William Reese Company Rare Books, Americana, Literature & Pictorial Americana 409 Temple Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511 203 / 789 · 8081 fax: 203 / 865 · 7653 e-mail: [email protected] web: www.williamreesecompany.com Bulletin 44: Photography A Classic of Western Photography 1. Adams, Ansel E., and Mary H. Austin: TAOS PUEBLO. San Francisco. 1930. [6] preliminary pages followed by [14]pp. of text and twelve original mounted photographs, printed on Dessonville paper by Ansel Adams, various sizes to 9 x 6½ inches, each with a corresponding caption leaf. Large folio. Publisher’s half tan morocco and cloth, spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers. Very good. From an edition limited to 108 copies (this copy is number 64) signed by Mary Austin and Ansel Adams. Possibly the most famous modern photographic work on the West, Taos Pueblo was a collaboration between the young photographer, Ansel Adams, and one of the most evocative writers on the Southwest, Mary Austin. An elegant design by the Grabhorn Press provides a counterpoint to Adams’ photo- graphs of the adobe Pueblo. The book distilled the romance and naturalism that many Americans found in the Indian pueblos of New Mexico, and defined the style that was to make Adams the most popular photographer of the American West. $85,000. An Early Boston African-American Daguerreotype 2. [African-American Photographica]: [PORTRAIT OF AN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN, ELIZA MIDDLETON, CIRCA 1847]. Boston. [ca. 1847]. Ninth-plate daguerreotype, 2 x 2½ inches. Brass mat, framed under glass in contemporary leather case. Slight silvering of the surface area, spine of case perished. Very good. A significant, early daguerreotype portrait of an austere African-American woman, Eliza Middleton, taken in Boston in the mid- 19th century. Includes a printed price list on verso, reading “Plumbe National Daguerrian Gallery, 75 Court Street, Boston, W.B. Eastman, Proprietor.” There was a substantial African-American community in Boston from Revolutionary times, centered around the north slope of Beacon Hill. Images of African-Americans in daguerreotypes are very rare $3750. An Impressive Album of Photographs of Angkor Wat, the Bayon Temple, and the Environs 3. [Angkor]: [SIGNIFICANT ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF ANGKOR WAT, THE BAYON TEMPLE, ANGKOR THOM, AND ENVIRONS]. [Angkor, ca. 1920s]. Ninety-three photographs. Large folio album, leather spine, the front cover a tooled copper sheet representing the Bayon Temple. Front hinge cracking slightly. Ninety-three matte silver gelatin photographs, on sheets of slightly variable size but generally 30 x 24 cm.; images uniformly 23.5 x 16.5 cm. All photographs in excellent condition, tipped onto larger sheets, interleaved with protective tissue. A very handsome and impressive album of Angkor Wat, the Bayon Temple, and the larger environs of Angkor Thom, taken by an unidentified but professional photogra- pher, almost certainly in the 1920s. The photographs depict architecture; sculptures both freestanding and as friezes; waterworks; and other features of the larger landscape of Angkor. A handsome and significant album of photographs on the world’s greatest archeological site, at a point when many parts of it were little disturbed. $9000. Early Photographs of a Remote Pacific Island 4. [Australia]: [Norfolk Island]: [ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SCENERY AND PEOPLE OF NORFOLK ISLAND IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN]. Norfolk Island. [ca. 1900]. Forty-two carbon prints, approximately 6 x 8 inches, on forty-two cream card album leaves, each mounted within ruled frame with printed caption below. Oblong small folio. Contemporary red morocco, gilt, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Very good. First sighted by Capt. James Cook on his second voyage, for the first half of the 19th cen- tury Norfolk Island was largely used as a penal colony. In the 1850s, it was subsequently settled by the Pitcairn Island descendents of the Bligh mutineers. In the 1860s the Angli- can Church established a large Melanesian mission on the island. The present images, by an unknown but probably Australian photographer, comprise views of Kingston, various lagoons and bays, landscape scenes featuring the island’s iconic pine trees and other vegeta- tion, images at the Melanesian Mission, and group portraits of the island’s inhabitants (pre- sumably including Bligh mutineer descendents). $12,000. A Stunning Civil War Landscape Image by Barnard 5. Barnard, George N.: [BATTLE GROUND OF RESACCA, GA. No. 2]. [1866]. Albumen photograph from a negative taken in 1866, 10⅝ x 14¹ /₁ ₆ inches, on period card mount, 18 x 21¾ inches. Printed caption below the image. Very good. Matted. This image was used by Barnard in his Photographic Views of Sherman’s Cam- paign, but is here separately printed at a contemporary date in slightly larger format. The present image offers a poignant reminder of the trail of destruc- tion left across the Confederacy by General William T. Sherman’s army in 1864 to 1865 during his famous campaign from Nashville to Chattanooga then Atlanta and so to Savannah and the sea. $2000. A Fine Album of Early Bermuda Photographs 6. [Bermuda]: Lusher, N.E.: [ALBUM OF THIRTY-ONE ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPHS SHOWING SCENES IN BERMUDA AND ELSEWHERE]. [Bermuda. ca. 1882]. Sixteen leaves, containing thirty- one mounted photographs, each approximately 7 x 9 inches. Oblong folio. Contemporary black cloth, neatly rebacked and recornered in contemporary black morocco, gilt. Light wear and soiling to cards. Images generally crisp and clean. Very good plus. A handsome 19th-century photo album which includes the work of one of the great photographers of Bermuda. Three of the images have been definitely attributed to N.E. Lusher—the first, showing the construction of a gangway to a docked vessel at St. Georges; the eighth image, showing a shaded crossroads; and the charming ninth image of a black woman and a young boy seated in a donkey cart. The remainder of the album includes a number of images of Bermuda subjects which are of a similarly high quality which suggest that they are all the work of Lusher. $10,000. A Handsome Album of Bermuda Photographs 7. [Bermuda]: Weiss, William: [ALBUM OF FORTY-FOUR LARGE FORMAT ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPHS OF BERMUDA]. [Bermuda. ca. 1902–1910]. Forty-four mounted albumen photographs, each 7¾ x 9¼ inches. Oblong folio. Contemporary three-quarter pebbled leather and cloth, gilt. Spine neatly repaired in matching calf. Gift inscription penciled on a front blank. Images generally crisp and clean. Very good. In a red cloth clamshell box, gilt leather label. A fascinating collection of early 20th-century photographs of Bermuda, from one of the noted local photogra- phers of the era, William Weiss. Most of the photographs are stamped by Weiss’s photography studio in the nega- tive, and those that are not stamped are very likely also Weiss compositions. William Weiss was a commercial photographer active in Bermuda from about 1902 until his death in 1925. Many of the images here are iconic rep- resentations of Bermudian locations, also appearing later in reproductions, both monochromatic and in color, and on postcards. $7500. A Wonderful Album of West Coast Bridges 8. [Bridge Construction in the West]: [PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM OF WEST COAST BRIDGES]. [Washington, D.C. ca. 1935]. Over 300 original mounted silver gelatin photographs, most from approximately 3 x 5½ to 7½ x 9½ inches, with seven panoramas, the largest about 3 x 13¾ inches. Oblong folio. Contemporary paper-covered thin boards, twin-bolt binding, calligraphic title on front cover. Paper along the joints largely chipped away, corners worn, some rubbing and soiling to boards. Mounted photographs generally in excellent condition. Very good. A fantastic photograph album, largely composed of images featuring bridges located on the West Coast of the United States. Except for the first twenty- six photographs, which concern bridges at Mount Vernon and the Boundary Channel Bridge in Arlington, and a handful showing bridges in New Mexico and Montana, all the bridges photographed are located on the West Coast, including California, Oregon, Washington, and also Arizona, many con- structed with the help of the Fed- eral Aid Project. The album itself has the impres- sion of a WPA product, though it is not identified as such. At the least, it is likely the work of an engineer familiar with the techni- cal aspects of bridge construction, evidenced by the captions. $5000. A Striking Bust Portrait of the Radical Abolitionist 9. [Brown, John]: [STRIKING OVAL SALT PAPER PRINT PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH OF RADICAL ABOLITIONIST, JOHN BROWN]. [Boston. 1856]. Oval salt print, 3½ x 2¾ inches, mounted to a larger backing sheet. Some tiny surface spots, image slightly faded, minor adhesive stain from a newspaper clipping affixed just below the image. Very good. Matted. Following his bloody anti-slavery activities in Kansas, John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry in the fall of 1859 is often thought of as the spark that ignited the Civil War. This image was taken in Boston in 1856 at the photog- raphy studio of John Adams Whipple. Following the Pottawatomie Massacre, Brown spent the years 1856–57 in Boston to promote his cause and raise funds for what would become his famous raid on Harper’s Ferry. A rare and essential image of the great abolitionist. $2000. Handsome Salt Print Portraits, Including an Early Portrait of Sam Houston 10. Brinckerhoff, J. De Witt (photographer): [ALBUM OF TWENTY MOUNTED OVAL PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHS, ON MOUNTS WITH BRINCKERHOFF’S IMPRINT]. [New York. ca. 1856]. Twenty mounted oval varnished salt print portrait photographs, guarded on old linen and interleaved with tissue. The image size of the portraits measuring approximately 8 x 6 inches. Folio. Bound to style in half black morocco and period dark purple cloth, upper cover with a period mounted label with the date 1856, spine gilt, period marbled endpapers. With Brinckerhoff’s trade label mounted on the front pastedown.
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