SECOND DAY’S SALE WEDNESDAY 5th OCTOBER 2016 COLLECTORS’ ITEMS, WORKS OF ART & CLOCKS Commencing not before 12.30pm Collectors’ Items, Works of Art and Clocks will be on view on: Friday 30th September 9.00am to 5.15pm Saturday 1st October 9.00am to 1.00pm Sunday 2nd October 2.00pm to 4.00pm Monday 3rd October 9.00am to 5.15pm Tuesday 4th October 9.00am to 5.15pm Limited viewing on sale day Weights and measurements are approximate guidelines only unless stated to the contrary Works of Art & Collectors’ Item Clocks Enquiries: Martin McIlroy Enquiries: Leigh Extence Tel. 01392 413100 Tel. 01392 413100 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 701 LOUIS JACQUES MANDÉ DAGUERRE [1787 - 1851] Inventor of the Diorama & the Daguerreotype Images, Books, Journals, Ephemera DAGUERRE, DESIGNER OF SCENERY FOR THE STAGE- a small quarto volume, [1817/18] in original binding, with the text of two plays ‘Le Passage de la Mer Rouge’ at Paris’s Théâtre de la Gaîté in Nov., 1817 and , is ‘Les Machabées’, at the Théâtre de l’Abigu-Comique, premiered on 23 Sept.,1817, featuring ‘Décorations de M. Daguerre’ on the title page. Note Gernsheim lists this ‘L.J.M. Daguerre, The History of the Diorama and the Daguerreotype’ as the second of thirteen melodramas designed by Daguerre for the Ambigu between 1817 and 1822. Newspaper reviews are pasted- in after each of the texts, the latter one heaping praise on Daguerre’s work ‘…un coup-d’œil vraiment céleste. Ce travail fait le plus grand honeur à M. Daguère [sic] , jeune peintre.’ A further critic gives the designs rave reviews and congratulates the management on having ‘le jeune peintre’ M. Daynerre (sic) under contract. £400 - 600 701 702 DIORAMAS AND COSMORAMAS - The New Monthly Magazine & Literary Journal and Historical Register. Vol. ix, 1823. Publisher’s binding, pp. 162 & 492-495. Note The issue of April 1, prior to the public opening of the Paris Diorama, contains a short account of Daguerre’s invention, ‘…a new method of exhibiting scenes of painting, differing from the panorama…’. A second entry, listed under Fine Arts in the issue of November 1, filling four double-column pages, elaborates on the London Diorama, which opened a month earlier. (The Cosmorama, which the reviewer indicates as ‘bearing no comparison’, merits a relatively brief description). £150 - 250 703 703 704 MOVING PANORAMA - A theatrical 704 nd playbill dated June 2 , 1825, including ROBERTS’ MOVING PANORAMA ‘An extensive Moving Panorama, A playbill for the Theatre Royal, Covent- Portraying views of Hyde Park Corner, Garden, Dec. 30th 1828, including Kensington, Hammersmith, Turnham- ‘Roberts’ Moving Panorama of the Green and Brentford’ Grand Russian Army’s March to Turkey, £100 - 150 St. Petersburgh at the time of a grand festival…’ etc.. £100 - 150 158 705 706 705 706 STANFIELD’S DIORAMA THE DIORAMA A double playbill for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Jan. 4 1830, and for Stanfield’s Mechanics’ Magazine, Museum, Grand Local Diorama, ‘Embracing the most Picturesque Views of Windsor and Register, Journal, and Gazette, volume its Vicinity. The River, near Brocas Meadow (Sunset) across the fields to Eton by 6, issue 159, Sept. 9, 1826 pp.289-291 Moonlight…’ etc. ‘The Diorama’, illustrated by a technical £120 - 180 drawing showing a section through the structure of the London installation, followed by a technical description. Bound volume, marbled boards, linen spine, minor wear In the same volume, pp.225-227, issue 155, an illustration of the exterior of the Coliseum, then nearing completion in Regent’s Park, with a detailed description. £100 - 150 707 VINCENT CHEVALIER APLANATIC OBJECT-GLASSES ‘A Critique on the Aplanatic Object- Glasses, for diverging Rays, of Vincent Chevalier, ainé et fils’, in The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and Art, The Royal Institution of Great Britain, July to Dec., 1827, pp. 248-258. Volume complete, boards rehinged, spine attached but incomplete. £80 - 120 Note Vincent Chevalier and his son Charles were lens maker to Daguerre 708 708 THE COLISEUM An aquatint by Tho. H. Shepherd, with printed title, published April 12, 1828, of The Coliseum (alt. spelling Colosseum) and part of the lake Regent’s Park. Image size 9 x 15.5cm. £50 – 80 Note Designed by Decimus Burton, the Coliseum, opened in 1829, exhibited panoramas of London and later of Paris. Hecht 127/J/1 et seq.. Margins a little dirty and small margin repair below the date. 159 710 THE DAGUERREOTYPE Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal, bound volume VIII. No. 395, Aug. 24, 1839, pp. 243- 204 contains an article of approximately a thousand words, being ‘An account of the new process of light-painting’ with a byline only five days after Arago, standing in for Daguerre, made full public exposure of Daguerre’s method. A more extensive account follows in the edition of Nov. 2, 1839, pp. 327-328, including details of the manipulations required for daguerreotypie, and a notice that Ste. Croix is currently demonstrating the daguerreotype in London. The edition of March 30, 1839, no. 374, pp. 77-78, under the title, ‘Painting by the Action of Light’, provides an equally detailed account of Talbot’s invention of photogenic drawing. £200 - 300 711 LA PHOTOGRAPHIE, OU LE DAGUERRÉOTYPE 709 Le Magasin Pittoresque, bound volume 7 for 1839. Issue 47, 709 Nov. 1839, pp. 374-376. EAST SIDE OF PARK SQUARE, AND DIORAMA A detailed account of the recent invention followed by Engraving of the Diorama by Tho. H. Shepherd, with printed instructions for use ‘Voici la description du procédé employé title, published June 6, 1829, image size 9 x 14.5cm., in par M. Daguerre’, together with five illustrative Line window mount. Engravings. £100 - 150 Binding worn but complete. (Bound with a volume of le Magasin Universal, August 1837 - September 1838) £250 - 350 712 TWO ISSUES OF THE TIMES NEWSPAPER, 1839 A complete issue of The Times for 21 Feb. 1839, containing the first mention of photography in The Times in a letter on p.6. The signatory, ‘Clericus’, claims to have taken photographs by Daguerre’s method, together with another copy, 5 April 1839, which, on p.5, bears a brief report from the Leipzig Gazette, of a claim by Steinhil and Kobel to have invented a system of photography. £40 - 60 713 FRENCH DAGUERREOTYPE PORTRAIT BY VICTOR CHEVALIER, c.1841 A fine early portrait of an unidentified gentleman, overall size 23.2 x 21cm., plate size 9.5 x 8.2cm., with octagonal paper matt, max. 7 x 6.2cm. The verso bears the label of V. Chevalier, 77 Quai de l’Horloge, and the legend, ‘Portraits au Daguerreotype en Quelques Secondes’. £3000 - 5000 Note Victor Chevalier, 1770-1841, is recorded in ‘Notice des Produits de l’Industrie Française’ for 1834 as ‘ingénieur- opticien’, with many patents to his credit. A cartouche of a camera (top right of the label) embracing the names of Chevalier and Daguerre, and the primitive paper matt, the lack of a case, the claim of daguerreotypes in a few seconds (presumably after the introduction of the first accelerator), the characteristic blue tone of the plate, and the year of Chevalier’s death, 1841, together suggest a daguerreotype taken in 1841 or prior. 713 713 label 160 714 part 714 DAGUERREOTYPE PORTRAIT FROM THE STUDIO OF RICHARD BEARD A fine and rare three-quarter profile of a lady, 1841-2, overall size app. 6.45cm., matted to an oval approx. 3.9 x 3.2cm., from the first daguerreotype portrait studio in London. Gernsheim’s describes similar examples in his History of Photography (2nd ed. 1969) as, ‘…contained in little pinchbeck cases… the metal cases embossed on the back with the royal coat of arms (signifying the Royal Polytechnic Institution) and the name of the case- maker and the date of his patent T. Wharton. No.791, 24 August 1841.’ £3000 - 5000 714 715 PHOTOGRAPHIC PHENOMENA, 716 OR NEW SCHOOL OF PORTRAIT DRAWING BY THE AGENCY OF PAINTING LIGHT In George Cruikshank’s Omnibus, Pp. 309-344 extracted from The volume for 1842. Worn marbled Edinburgh Review, Volume LXXVI, boards, rebacked in quarter morocco. October, 1842 - January, 1843 and A poetic satire on Richard Beard’s bound in plain modern linen boards. daguerreotype portrait studio, with Pp. 309-322 carry an authoritative cartoon illustration by Cruikshank. anonymous review, now generally (Gernsheim, Incunabula of British attributed to Sir David Brewster, editor Photographic History 1839-1875, no. of the Review, of Daguerre’s manual 659). as translated by Memes. The final £100 - 150 paragraph of the review challenges the validity of Daguerre’s patent in England, where it ‘cannot stand a moment’s examination’. 715 The remaining pages are devoted to Talbot’s ‘Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing; ‘Die Calotypische Portraitirkunst’ by Netto-Quedlingburg; and ‘Uber der Process des Sehens und die Wirkung des Lichts auf alle Korper’ by Von Moser. (See Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic History 1839-1875, no. 1079) £150 - 200 161 717 717 COLLECTION DE 28 VUES DE PARIS PRISES AU DAGUERRÉOTYPE Gravures en Taille Douce sur Acier par Chamouin A set of engravings based on daguerreotypes, c.1845. Sm. folio, handsome gs red morocco binding slightly edge rubbed, minimal spotting on the margins of two plates o’wise v. fine, original tissue guards. (Gernsheim, L.J.M. Daguerre, The History of the Diorama and the Daguerreotype, appendix Books illustrated with… 717 part engravings after daguerreotypes.) £300 - 400 718 719 DAGUERRE OBITUARY JOHN JABEZ EDWIN MAYALL A single (unspotted, undamaged) page A fine, cased 1/4-plate daguerreotype dated July 26, 1851, extracted from of a young lady, by John Jabez Edwin the Illustrated London News.