Photography
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Fine photographs and photobooks with an emphasis on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We stock images by recognised masters such as Hill & Adamson, Roger Fenton or Julia Margaret Cameron as well as more eclectic examples illustrating the range of formats and processes used in the early years of the medium. This might include fine daguerreotypes, complete photograph albums, carbon or platinum prints by known or amateur photographers.
We are also interested in the work of early travel photographers, particularly those in the Middle and Far East. From later periods we hold work by British photographers specialising in fine art and documentary photography including Alvin Langdon Coburn, J. Dudley Johnston, Bill Brandt and Raymond Moore.
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[AGRICULTURE.]
Photographs from the countryside around Beijing.
[Early twentieth century.]
Details of agricultural work and life,...
£3000
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AH FONG, photographer.
The Sino-Japanese Hostilities 1937.
Shanghai, Nanking Road, 1937.
Excellently preserved copy of this rare...
£3750
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ANNAN, Thomas.
Memorials of the Old College of Glasgow.
Glasgow, T. Annan Photographer; J. Maclehose,...
A very good copy illustrated with albumen...
£3450
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[ATO PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION.]
Album of 100 gelatin silver prints of Tianjin...
[Circa 1930s.]
An attractive example of the commercially...
£2500
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[ATO PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION.]
Album of 100 gelatin silver prints of Fuzhou...
[1930s.]
Includes panoramas of Fuzhou apparently...
£2500
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[BEIJING.]
[Cover title:] ‘The most interesting...
[c. 1900–1920.]
A very good example of a commercial...
£1750
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[BEIJING.]
[Cover title:] ‘The most interesting...
[C. 1900–1910.]
A very unusual commercial album of Beijing,...
£2000
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BENNETT, Terry.
History of Photography in China: Chinese...
London, Quaritch, 2013.
This book is the first extensive survey...
£80
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BENNETT, Terry.
History of Photography in China.
London, Quaritch, 2009-2013.
First editions of the three-volume set...
£175
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BISSON, Louis-Auguste.
‘Wildfire’.
Paris, c. 1844.
An extraordinary equine portrait, testimony...
£14500
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[DAGUERRE.] MAYER & PIERSON [after Charles Richard MEADE.]
Carte-de-visite albumen print portrait...
Paris, late 1860s.
In 1848 the pioneering American photographer...
£1200
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DALLMEYER, Thomas.
Telephotography: An elementary Treatise...
London, William Heinemann, 1899.
First edition of the authoritative treatise...
£200
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DUNCAN, Raymond.
A small archive of printed and manuscript...
Paris, 1940s to 1970s.
The present archive includes:
£1500
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DURHAM, Arthur E.
Transverse Section of Wood (Salisburia).
Circa 1870s.
A rare and attractive microphotograph...
£1100
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[ELIZABETH II.] KEYSTONE (PARIS).
La Princesse Elisabeth fille du Duc d’York,...
1936.
Princess Elizabeth on the day of the...
£1200
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[EMPRESS DOWAGER and DALAI LAMA.]
Photographs of religious traditions in Peking.
Beijing, c. 1908.
A record of religious cultures and traditions...
£4500
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[FARSARI, Adolfo, Studio of.]
Japanese flower seller.
[Yokohama?, c. 1887.]
A striking image of a Japanese flower...
£200
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FOREST, BISSON FRERES, &c.
A collection of eight albumen prints (or...
France, 1864-5.
An exceptional series of oversize prints...
£30000