Photography

Contact Donovan Rees

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.

  1. [AGRICULTURE.]

    Photographs from the countryside around Beijing.

    [Early twentieth century.]

    Details of agricultural work and life,...

    £3000

  2. AH FONG, photographer.

    The Sino-Japanese Hostilities 1937.

    Shanghai, Nanking Road, 1937.

    Excellently preserved copy of this rare...

    £3750

  3. ANNAN, Thomas.

    Memorials of the Old College of Glasgow.

    Glasgow, T. Annan Photographer; J. Maclehose,...

    A very good copy illustrated with albumen...

    £3450

  4. [ATO PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION.]

    Album of 100 gelatin silver prints of Tianjin...

    [Circa 1930s.]

    An attractive example of the commercially...

    £2500

  5. [ATO PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION.]

    Album of 100 gelatin silver prints of Fuzhou...

    [1930s.]

    Includes panoramas of Fuzhou apparently...

    £2500

  6. [BEIJING.]

    Album of Beijing and environs.

    [1920s.]

    A meticulously presented and captioned...

    £1500

  7. [BEIJING.]

    [Cover title:] ‘The most interesting...

    [c. 1900–1920.]

    A very good example of a commercial...

    £1750

  8. [BEIJING.]

    [Cover title:] ‘The most interesting...

    [C. 1900–1910.]

    A very unusual commercial album of Beijing,...

    £2000

  9. BENNETT, Terry.

    History of Photography in China: Chinese...

    London, Quaritch, 2013.

    This book is the first extensive survey...

    £80

  10. BENNETT, Terry.

    History of Photography in China.

    London, Quaritch, 2009-2013.

    First editions of the three-volume set...

    £175

  11. BISSON, Louis-Auguste. 

    ‘Wildfire’. 

    Paris, c. 1844. 

    An extraordinary equine portrait, testimony...

    £14500

  12. BRANDT, Bill.

    Stonehenge: after Thomas Hardy,

    c. 1946.

    In Bill Brandt Behind the Camera,...

    £8500

  13. [DAGUERRE.] MAYER & PIERSON [after Charles Richard MEADE.]

    Carte-de-visite albumen print portrait...

    Paris, late 1860s.

    In 1848 the pioneering American photographer...

    £1200

  14. DALLMEYER, Thomas.

    Telephotography: An elementary Treatise...

    London, William Heinemann, 1899.

    First edition of the authoritative treatise...

    £200

  15. DUNCAN, Raymond. 

    A small archive of printed and manuscript...

    Paris, 1940s to 1970s. 

    The present archive includes:

    £1500

  16. DURHAM, Arthur E. 

    Transverse Section of Wood (Salisburia). 

    Circa 1870s. 

    A rare and attractive microphotograph...

    £1100

  17. [EMPRESS DOWAGER and DALAI LAMA.]

    Photographs of religious traditions in Peking.

    Beijing, c. 1908.

    A record of religious cultures and traditions...

    £4500

  18. [FARSARI, Adolfo, Studio of.]

    Japanese flower seller.

    [Yokohama?, c. 1887.]

    A striking image of a Japanese flower...

    £200

  19. FOREST, BISSON FRERES, &c

    A collection of eight albumen prints (or...

    France, 1864-5.

    An exceptional series of oversize prints...

    £30000