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(China ,Photography)
Early Photography of China Collection: A highly important collection in development.. Various places, 1850s-1930s
The most valuable collection of early China photography in private hands, the Early Photography of China Collection includes the greatest masterworks of China photography by the foremost photographers working in China in the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the 20th century. The collection has been assembled over the course of many years, and we continue to expand and refine it as worthy photographs and archives become available. This collection, unrivaled in quality and extent in private hands, provides a unique opportunity to own one of the greatest collections of Chinese photography extant. We are eager to acquire important China photographs, from individual objects to albums and collections. We invite you to contact us.
Collection in development
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BRADY ,MATHEW et al.
Civil War photographic album of Louis–Philippe d’Orleans, Comte de Paris. Various photographers including Brady, c. 1862
This important Civil War photograph album has been donated to Cornell University by the Beth and Stephan Loewentheil Family Photography Collection. This album of the Comte de Paris was perhaps the finest Civil War photographic album in private hands. There are 265 photographs: over 60 very rare war camp scenes in small format, mainly by Brady and his assistants, including unusual images of military field operations, headquarters and candid officer photos, gun emplacements, ordnance, soldiers at work and rest, and artillery and cavalry regiments preparing for battle.
Donated to Cornell University as its 8 millionth book
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(AMERICAN WEST.) ,Watkins, Taber, Savage, and others
Magnificent Album of Mammoth Photographs of the American West, with other subjects. various, ca. 1865-1880s
This magnificent American West photograph album contains an astounding 21 mammoth photographs by leading photographers including Carleton Watkins, Charles R. Savage, and Isaiah West Taber, as well as other important photographs.
$350,000
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ROCKEFELLER ,JOHN D
Ambrotype Portrait of John D. Rockefeller. Cleveland, Ohio: Wiliam C. North, c. 1857-1858
This famous portrait of John D. Rockefeller at age 18 is the earliest known photograph of the greatest titan of American business and industry.
$150,000
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(CENTRAL PARK) Prevost ,Victor
An extraordinary collection of photographs of Central Park by its first official photographer. New York, 1862
Pioneering photographs of Central Park. One of the earliest photographers to work in New York
$135,000
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(LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.) Gardner, Alexander
Mammoth Plate Portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Washington, November 8, 1863
A classic mammoth portrait of Abraham Lincoln, showing the President just days before he delivered the Gettysburg Address.
$95,000
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BRADY, GARDNER, MORSE, DAGUERRE, RUSSELL, WATKINS &c
An extraordinary collection of 26 photographic portraits of leading photographers. Various processes, 1850s-1890s
This superb collection of photographs of photographers documents the spread of photography from its inventor Daguerre through the art’s earliest practitioners in the United States and ultimately to the great photographers of the Civil War and the American West.
$75,000
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FRITH ,FRANCIS
Photographs of the Holy Land comprising the following volumes: [I:] Sinai and Palestine; [II:] Lower Egypt, Thebes, and the Pyramids; [III:] Upper Egypt and Ethiopia.. London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh: William MacKenzie, [1862]
A handsome set of Frith’s photographs. This edition’s gold-toned photographs are preferred over the earlier editions for their “stronger quality” (Gernsheim).
$55,000
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(DARWIN, CHARLES.) CAMERON, JULIA MARGARET
Portrait of Charles Darwin, signed by Darwin and by Cameron. Cameron, [1868]
THE ICONIC PORTRAIT OF CHARLES DARWIN, boldly signed by Charles Darwin and by Julia Margaret Cameron.
$52,000
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He Fought with George Washington: Amazing Daguerreotype of a Revolutionary Soldier born in the 1740s(AMERICAN REVOLUTION). STONE, BALTUS
Daguerreotype Portrait of Baltus Stone. [Philadelphia], 1846
This remarkable portrait of Revolutionary War veteran Baltus Stone is one of the very few daguerreotypes of a person who had lived in colonial America.
$50,000