2004-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2004
Group of five reference books, includes: The Waking Dream: Photography's First Century. Selections from the Gilman Paper Company Collection. Texts by Hambourg, Perre Apraxine, Malcolm Daniel, Jeff L. Rosenheim and Virginia Heckert. 384 pp., with 275 illustrations, including 196 color and duotone plates and 79 duotone figures. Fine...plus; Sculpture in America. by Wayne Craven, 722 pp. with more than 280 b&w illustrations. VG...plus; Facing the Light, by Pfister, 378 p, exhibition catalogue, selected bibliography, and index. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. 110 b&w reproductions of American dignitaries accompanied by biographical essays. Ex-libris. VG...plus; PHOTOGRAPHY IN AMERICA: THE FORMATIVE YEARS, 1839-1900. by William Welling. Profusely illustrated. A year by year approach to the technical and aesthetic developments in the medium. Attention is given to the amateur as well as professional concerns; although the emphasis is on the American, parallels to the European scene are included....plus; ST. MEMIN COLLECTION OF PORTRAITS; Consisting of Seven Hundred and Sixty Medallion Portraits, Principally of Distinguished Americans, Photographed by J. Gurney and Son, of New York, 1862, publishedby Elias Dexter, New York. Broken spine, else VG. (5 items)
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