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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[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
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[HAMBURG.]
A sammelband of material relating to the...
[Germany, 1842.]
A fine and unusual volume of materials...
£850
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HARLINGUE, L. [Albert].
'Baktiaris Persans'.
[Iran, c. 1905-1911].
An impressive press image of the Bakhtiari...
£1500
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[HILL & ADAMSON.]
ELLIOT, Andrew, and Dr Elliot; ANNAN,...
Edinburgh, Printed for Private Circulation,...
First edition, one of 38 copies, of...
£15000
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HORACE.
Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera cum novo commentario...
Paris, Didot, 1855.
The deluxe issue of Didot’s Horace,...
£750
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JACOBSON, Ken.
Odalisques & Arabesques: Orientalist Photography...
[London], Quaritch, 2007.
Profusely illustrated, this is the most...
£60
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LEIGHTON, J. Harold.
Collection of exhibition prints,
1920s–1940s.
An impressive international exhibition...
£7500
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[LOVE TOKEN.]
Portrait of a woman wearing photographic...
[1850s].
An ambrotype portrait of a young woman...
£375
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[LUYNES, Honoré Théodore Paul Joseph d’Albert, duc de.] VIGNES, Louis, photographer; Charles NEGRES, printer.
Voyage d’exploration à la mer Morte,...
Printed 1874–76.
A fine set of the photogravures for...
£25000
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MANTELL, A. M. (attr.).
Views in North Wales.
Circa 1880.
A magnificent album of large-format...
£6500
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MENNIE, Donald.
Glimpses of China. A Series of Vandyck...
Watson & Co. Ltd, [1920?].
First edition, scarce, with thirty images...
£1200
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NISSEN, Peter.
‘Carl Hagenbeck’s Zoologischer Circus’
c. 1891.
A rare portfolio of live animal scenes...
£12000
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PENN, Christopher.
The Nicholas Brothers & A. T. W. Penn:...
London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2014.
An examination of the successful studios...
£45
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PIECK, Henri C.
10 Dagen Die De Wereld Deden Wankelen.
Amsterdam, Skovino, 1927.
A rare lithograph of Pieck’s dramatic...
£300
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PURSEY, Thomas.
The last General Assembly of the Free Church...
[Edinburgh, T. Pursey, 1900.]
A photographic tour-de-force, assembling...
£2000