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HURGRONJE, Christiaan Snouck.
Mekka. 1888-9
£30,000
First edition, complete with its atlas of plates, of this historically important, and highly influential study of Islam's most holy city. Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936), a...
3 volumes: 2 text volumes large octavo (244 × 161 mm); folio atlas volume (363 × 285 mm). Text volumes in contemporary tan hard-grain half morocco, green and... Read more
RICHIE, Robert Yarnall.
Photographic album prepared for special presentation by the photographer 1945
£17,500
Presentation album of exhibition-quality photographs compiled by the photographer and bound for him in lavish morocco and gilt. An exceptional album of images made by the...
Folio. 30 original photographic prints each 340 × 270 mm in size, guard mounted and bound for presentation in original full green morocco, gilt map of Saudi... Read more
PORTER, Eliot.
Portfolio One. The Seasons. 1963
£15,000
First edition, first printing.
Folio. 12 original dye-transfer mounted prints as issued. With two copies of title and limitation page. Housed in a linen portfolio with ties, titles to upper panel... Read more
DUCHENNE (DE BOULOGNE), Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand.
Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine ou analyse électro-physiologique de l'expression des passions. 1862
£12,500
First edition of this landmark in the history of clinical medical photography; presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "A mon ami [the identity of the...
Large octavo (272 × 178 mm). Original gilt-lettered red morocco-grain cloth spine and front cover skilfully laid down over later red pebble grain cloth to style,... Read more
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CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri.
[L'Express] 1959
£12,500
Inscribed on the front pastedown, "For Mr Aneurin Bevan respectfully yours Henri Cartier-Bresson", and additionally inscribed by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber—"and the friendly...
Oblong quarto. Original grey cloth with a photograph to the front cover of a leopard holding a copy of L'Express newspaper in its mouth. With 20 monochrome photographs... Read more
BAILEY, David.
Box of Pin-Ups. [1965]
£8,750
First edition, sole impression. This seminal collection of portraits by Bailey is one of the great iconic representations of the Swinging Sixties in London. The subjects typify the...
Original card clamshell box (380 x 330 mm), containing 36 loose sheets; each a full page half tone reproduction of a photographic portrait with biographical details of... Read more
BAILEY, David.
Box of Pin-Ups. [1965]
£7,500
First edition, sole impression. This seminal collection of portraits by Bailey is one of the great iconic representations of the Swinging Sixties in London. The subjects typify the...
Original card clamshell box (380 x 330mm), containing 36 loose plates; each a full page half tone reproduction of a photographic portrait with biographical details of... Read more
([CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne] TWAIN, Mark.) GESSFORD, Joseph G.
Autographed photograph, black and white half length portrait of Mark Twain. 1908
£6,750
Inscribed above and beneath the image by the author "To Mrs. F. B. Rice with the best wishes of Mark Twain" and dated "Feb. 20 / 08". Signed and dated by the photographer lower left....
Photogravure. Image size 24 x 17 cm. Paper size 35 x 26 cm. Framed and glazed. Read more
BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret.
Photographs of U.S.S.R. 1934
£6,500
First edition, first printing. One of 1,000 numbered copies. This copy is number 23 and one of a small number signed by the photographer. An astounding collection of images and one...
Folio. Unbound sheets in the quarter brown cloth portfolio, buff boards, decoration and titles to upper board in red, red ties. 24 photogravures. Some typical creasing... Read more
EVANS, Walker.
Message from the Interior. 1966
£6,250
First edition, first printing. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by the photographer "Lincoln, from Walker". Lincoln Kirstein is most noted for his hand in founding the New York...
Quarto. Original grey mottled cloth, titles to white paper label to front board in black, titles to spine in white. Twelve works of photography reproduced in sheet-fed... Read more
BEARD, Peter.
Peter Beard, Art Edition, No. 251–2500. 2006
£6,000
Limited to 2,250 individually numbered copies, each signed by Peter Beard. This copy with an additional illustration in black ink by Beard on the limitation page and inscribed...
Folio (345 × 500 mm). Original half brown calf with burgundy cloth boards, photographic illustration to front board, titles to spine gilt, Japanese silk cotton... Read more
RAY, Man.
40 Rayographies. 25 Février - 25 Mars 1972. 1972
£5,750
First edition, first printing. One of 60 (including 10 hors commerce) copies on Arches paper accompanied with an original Rayograph mounted on veneer over board, signed lower right...
Quarto. Original stiff wrappers. With the card dust jacket and original glassine. With 65 illustrations. Small nicks to head of dust jacket spine and glassine... Read more
BLOSSFELDT, Karl.
Wundergarten Der Natur. Neue Bilddokumente Schöner Pflanzenformen 1932
£5,000
First edition, first printing, portfolio edition: the preferred format of one of the greatest and most influential photographic books ever published, this being the second photobook...
Quarto. Loose leaves in the original grey cloth chemise portfolio, decoration and titles to front board and spine in red. 120 full page photogravures by Blossfeldt.... Read more
ARNOLD, Eve; Jill Freedman; Ernst Haas; André Kertész; Duane Michals; Inge Morath; Barbara Morgan; Eva Rubinstein; Nea
Ten Photographers. 1978
£5,000
First Edition. Limited to 75 copies. Each photograph signed and numbered below the image by the artist.
Folio. Clamshell portfolio bound in fawn linen, titles to spine and upper board in grey. 10 individually matted original silver prints, each signed and numbered by the... Read more
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CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri.
The Decisive Moment, [and] The Europeans. 1952 & 1955
£4,500
First US edition, first printing. The photographer's finest and definitive collection of images.
2 vols. Folio. Original decorated boards designed by Matisse. With the dust jackets and the booklets of captions laid in as required. Spines lightly bumped, cream... Read more
BRANDT, Bill.
A Night in London. 1938
£4,500
First edition. A magnificent piece of work, and a classic of its type. There is some speculation that the scarcity of this publication is in part due to enemy action. Certainly its...
Large octavo. Original pictorial wrappers. In a black cloth solander case. 64 illustrations from photographs by the author. Elegant gift inscription quoting a Robert... Read more
BRODOVITCH, Alexey.
Ballet. [1945.]
£4,500
First edition, first printing. Between 1935 and 1937 Brodovitch photographed several of the leading Russian ballet companies whilst they were in New York on their world tours. With...
Quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in grey morocco, title onlaid in white morocco to front board, twin rule to turn-ins in silver, off-white endpapers, silver... Read more
BRANDT, Bill.
A Night in London. 1938
£4,500
First edition, first impression. A magnificent piece of work, and a classic of its type. There is some speculation that the scarcity of this publication is in part due to enemy...
Large octavo. Original pictorial wrappers. 64 illustrations from photographs by the author. Some minor rubbing to the edges of the wrappers, backstrip repaired and... Read more
BERTILLON, Alphonse.
Identification Anthropometrique. Instructions Signalétiques. 1893
£3,950
First published in 1886, this edition represents Bertillon's final statement of the technique of Bertillonage or forensic anthropometry. This copy inscribed on the front free...
Octavo (247 × 161 mm). Contemporary blue quarter cloth on marbled boards, tan morocco label to the spine. Line-drawn frontispiece and 51 similar plates, 30... Read more
RICH, Captain E. T.
Views of the Bazar Valley Field Force, 1908, [1908]
£3,875
From the time of the end of the Tirah campaign in 1897-8 the Zakka Khel Afridis had "...remained the persistent enemies of tranquility and progress. Numerous raids in British...
Landscape quarto. Album leaves loose, housed in a blue cloth drop-back box, title - "Photographs" - from the original album mounted on the upper panel. 93 gelatine... Read more
(WARHOL, Andy.) COOPER, Michael.
Blinds & Shutters. 1990
£3,750
First edition, first impression. Limited to 5000 copies. This is no. 1160 signed by 11 of the contributors; Adam Cooper, Allen Jones, Bill Wyman, Andy Warhol, Peter Blake, Eric...
Quarto. Original black morocco and yellow buckram, titles to front cover in black and yellow, titles to spine in yellow, all edges red. Housed in the publisher's... Read more
SERBIN, Vincent.
Toward Omega. 2005
£3,500
First edition, first printing. One of 60 numbered and 2 hors commerce copies signed by Vincent Serbin, Daniel Westover, John Wood and Steven Albahari. Each of the 10 tipped-in silver...
Folio. Finely bound by Peter Geraty and his Praxis Bindery with original decorated metal copper boards with vellum spine, titles to spine in copper, with 10 tipped-in... Read more
(HARRISON, George) TAYLOR, Derek.
Fifty Years Adrift. 1984
£2,750
First edition, first impression. Limited to 2000 copies. This is no. 1687 signed by Derek Taylor, George Harrison and Larry Smith (of Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band fame), the artist of the...
Quarto. Original brown half calf with brown boards, illustration to front cover in red and git, titles to spine gilt, one red calf label to spine, all edges gilt.... Read more
BURROUGHS, William S.
Burroughs Eine Bild-Biographie. 1994
£2,750
First edition, first impression, hardcover issue. Signed on the title page by Burroughs and contributors Timothy Leary, Gregory Corso, and Allen Ginsberg. Contributor's copy...
Quarto. Original pictorial boards, titles to spine and upper board in red. Illustrated through by a variety of photographers. Boards a little rubbed, lower corner... Read more
HOPPÉ, E. O.
Deutsche Arbeit. 1930
£2,750
First edition, first impression of a stunning series of photographs depicting German industry, engineering, and labour during the inter-war years. E. O. Hoppé (1878–1972)...
Quarto. Original grey cloth backed black boards, titles to spine in white and to upper board in orange. With the reversible dust jacket. Spine very slightly rolled.... Read more
