Auction 15
Following are some of the photographic highlights of our Auctions 14 & 15,
with links to fuller decriptions and more photography. Our.Auction 15 offers
the collector more in the way of photography, featuring such luminaries as Adams,
Fiske, Muybridge, and others, but there is an interesting bit of Civil War photography
in Auction 14. Below are short descriptions with an example photo. Simply click
on the links to see more. Some long load times may be involved, depending on
your connection. Given the nature of these collections, there will be some overlap
between photography, iconography, and cartography.
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77.
FISKE, George. Album of Yosemite photographs. 24 leaves (approximately
17.5 x 24.2 cm; 7 x 10 inches) containing 47 mounted albumen photographs
(each approximately 11 x 19 cm; 4-1/4 x 7-1/2 inches). N.p., ca. 1880-1890s.
Oblong 4to, period brown cloth photo album, embossed and gilt-lettered,
photos mounted to cards bound into covers with string through linen mounting
tabs. ($3,000-6,000) Click on this link for more: More>> Click Here or on the picture to see our page with 10 Fiske images. (Load time ~ 1-2 minutes) |
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ADAMS, Ansel. “Poplars, Autumn, Owens Valley, California.” Gelatin
silver photograph. 32.7 x 22.9 cm; 12-7/8 x 9 inches. Signed by Adams in
pencil on mount at lower right; titled, dated, and rubber-stamped in ink
on verso. ($3,000-6,000) Click on this link for More>> ADAMS, Ansel. Sierra Nevada and the John Muir Trail. Berkeley: Archetype Press, 1938. 50 leaves of plates consisting of 50 mounted photogravures. ($3,000-6,000) Click on this link for More>> |
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116. KNEELAND, Samuel. The Wonders
of the Yosemite Valley, and of California. Boston & New York, 1872.
10 mounted photographs, maps, illustrations. Large 8vo, original cloth.
Second edition, enlarged and extending the text to include two articles
largely by John Muir, marking his first appearance in a
book Currey & Kruska 225: “One of the better early guide books
to the Yosemite region.” ($750-1,500) Click on this link or the picture for more: More>> |
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153.
PALÓU, Francisco. Noticias de la Nueva California. San Francisco:
Imprenta de Edouardo Bosqui y Cia., 1874. xx, 270 + 301 + 315 + 253 pp.,
18 original mounted albumen photographs (missions, views, scenes, architecture,
cityscapes). 4 vols., 8vo, contemporary three-quarter dark green sheep over
marbled boards, spines gilt-lettered. ($3,000-6,000) Click on this link or the picture for more: More>> |
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210.
VISCHER, Edward.
Vischer’s Pictorial of California Landscape, Trees and Forest
Scenes. Grand Features of California Scenery, Life, Traffic and Customs.
San Francisco, April, 1870. [San Francisco,1870].
Vischer is among the early California photographers, and Dr. Hart considered
him the first (see Companion to California) ($7,500-15,000) Click on this link or the picture for more: More>> |
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HEARTSILL, W[illiam] W[illiston]. Fourteen Hundred and 91 Days
in the Confederate Army: A Journal Kept by W. W. Heartsill. For Four Years,
One Month, and One Day, or Camp Life; Day-by-Day....
[Marshall: Privately printed, 1876]. 61 original albumen photographs. ($30,000-50,000) Click on this link or the picture for more: More>> |
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148.
MUIR, John. My First Summer in the Sierra. With Illustrations
from Drawings Made by the Author in 1869 and from Photographs by Herbert
W. Gleason. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin; Cambridge: Riverside
Press, 1911. Photographic frontispiece, 11 photographic plates (all on tinted
grounds), text illustrations ($500-1,000) Click on this link or the picture for more: More>> |
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22.
FRANCE. COMMISSION SCIENTIFIQUE DU MEXIQUE. Guillemin-Tarayre,
Edmond. [Wrapper title]: Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans L’Amérique
Centrale, Ouvrage Publié par Ordre du Ministre de l’Instruction Publique...Paris:
Imprimerie Nationale, 1871. Lithograph
from photographs, on tinted ground. Native Americans of the region (including
Utah). ($1,000-2,000) Click on this link or the picture for more: More>> |
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