Search Results: Early Photography from Charles Agvent

Philadelphia: American Museum of Photography, [1942]. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Printed slim dark red wraps (5" x 7-1/4"); 16 pages plus covers. Illustrated with a tipped-in portrait of the photography pioneer and a full-page engraving of his establishment.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Some rubbing to binding, but Near Fine, contents bright. Bound in full, blind-stamped publisher's black morocco leather and illustrated with a carte-de-visite photograph of the author by P. Gutekunst tipped to the verso of the front free endpaper, likely as issued; 179 pages. The only copy of this book we were able to locate, at Brown University, makes no mention of a photograph. Includes at least two poems touching upon photography--"A Group of Cartes-de-Visite" and "Lines on a Photographic Group of Authors."

St. Louis: Published from 116 North Fourth Street, 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Front cover now detached and the spine largely lacking, but the text block is tight and the book can be easily rebacked. Despite the defects, Very Good and quite scarce. The first twelve issues of this scarce western photography monthly edited by J. H. Fitzgibbon, one of America's finest daguerreotypists and well-known for his portraits of Native Americans. Bound in contemporary half morocco with the original front and rear wrappers for all issues, as well as the ads, bound in. Illustrated with 10 original photographs, mostly mounted albumens including a portrait of Fitzgibbon by Bogardus, an Adirondacks landscape by Stoddard, and various posed studies. One image, the Great Steel Bridge of St. Louis, is printed directly on the paper; another is a chromotype of the Chicago Apollo Musical Club by Gentile. There is no image with the sixth issue, nor is one listed in the contents. The albertype by E. Bierstadt for the… Read More