Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, Ltd.

I am pleased to offer for sale a garland of Gilded Lilies, which includes: Han's Bellmer's LA POUPÉE, one of 105 copies with 10 gelatin silver photographs; Bonfilis' SOUVENIRS D'ORIENT, with 100 albumen prints; the first photographic identification pass made for the 1876 Centenial in Philadelphia; two vintage photographs by Walter Chappell; an archive of cabinet cards of Frederick S. Dellenbaugh and his associates; an inscribed copy of LES AMÈRICAINS., with a drawing by Robert Frank; a self-portrait by Rauol Hausmann; Victor Landweber's SWEETSTUFF: CANDY POLAROIDS, with 17 POLACOLOR diptychs; Man Ray's ÉLECTRICITÉ from 1931; a salt print of a Philadelphia Fire Fighter from c. 1858; a large group of titles by Frederick Sommer, including his portfolio of signed photogravures, THE BIRTH OF VENUS; a drypoint caricature of Josef Sudek inscribed by him; two artist's books of original gelatin silver photographs made by the mordançage process by Jean-Pierre Sudre; Fox Talbot's ENGLISH ETYMOLOGIES, which he inscribed; Carleton Watkin's YOSEMITE BOOK with 28 large albumen photographs; salesmen's sample books, and other oddities.

E-LIST65 I am pleased to offer for sale a large selection of hand-pulled photogravures from publications under the direction of Alfred Stieglitz: AMERICAN PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY, Series 1 & 2; CAMERA NOTES; CAMERA WORK. The prints are by: Charles I. Berg, Will Cadby, Eustace G. Calland, Rose Clark & Elizabeth Flint Wade, Emilie V. Clarkson, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Baron Adolf De Meyer, Frank Eugene, Frederick H. Evans, Herbert Greer French, Gertrude Käsebier, W. B. Post, George H. Seeley, George Bernard Shaw, Eduard Steichen, Edmund Sterling, Alfred Stieglitz, and Clarence H. White.beth Flint Wade, Emilie V. Clarkson, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Baron Adolf De Meyer, Frank Eugene, Frederick H. Evans, Herbert Greer French, Gertrude Käsebier, W. B. Post, George H. Seeley, George Bernard Shaw, Eduard Steichen, Edmund Sterling, Alfred Stieglitz, and Clarence H. White.

I am pleased to offer for sale a selection of recent acquisitions which include Laure Albin Guillot's MICROGRAPHIE DÉCORATIVE, with 20 photogravure plates printed on a variety of papers and folis; L’EPREUVE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE.PREMIÈRE SÉRIE. [WITH] DÈUXIEME SÉRIE, 1904, which includes 96 photogravure plates by Boisonnas, Demachy, Puyo, Misonne, Steichen, Keighley, and others; two copies of Blanquart-Evrard's TRAITÉ DE PHOTOGRAPHIE SUR PAPIER, a “very considerable improvement of Talbot’s calotype process.”; ESTHÉTIQUE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE, one of 75 special copies with an additional suite of plates; three early works by Charles Chevalier, including an 1850's catalogue of cameras, lenses, and developing materials for daguerreotypes and photographs on paper and glass; a collection of stock certificates from European cinematic companies; the first book to include a pinhole camera photograph; a gelatin silver portrait of Una Merkel by Edward S. Curtis; a small archive of catalogues and letters from the Hess-Ives Corporation; numerous manuals for making daguerreotypes and other early processes; a bound collection of letter on the early history of Lacock Abbey by Charles Henry Talbot; Jean-Baptiste Soleil's GUIDE DE L’AMATEUR DE PHOTOGRAPHIE OU EXPOSÉ DE LA MARCHE À SUIVRE DANS L’EMPLOI DU DAGUERRÉOTYPE ET DES PAPIERS PHOTOGRAPHIQUES, 1840, likely the first French manual to include paper processes, with an uncalled for photograph of the author, an exceedingly rare publication with WorldCat listing a single copy; gelatin silver photographs by Berenice Abbott, Anthony Barboza, Doug Prince, and a self portrait by Jerry Uelsmann; a cyanotype of flowering vines by Louis Comfort Tiffany, likely a unique print.

I am pleased to offer for sale a selection of recent acquisitions, which includes a presentation copy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; two albums of photographs of Egypt by Beato and Bonfils; the first published color photograph, 1871; two self portraits by Margaret Bourke-White; 12 monographs from the History of Photography Monograph Series, Arizona State University; Nine Calotypes in Honor of Fox Talbot; and 3 novelty camera decanters.

Beginning 6 September through 30 September, <br /><br /> all books, photographsand ephemera will be on sale as follows:<br /><br /> Items priced from $1 - $300 are discounted 40%.<br /><br /> Items priced from $301 and up are discounted 25%.

I am pleased to offer for sale a miscellany of photographic books, broadsides and images, which include: Roger Aubry's L'EPREUVE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE, Series 1 & 2; an unrecorded announcement soliciting sitters for portraits by Andrew Burgess, Leon, Mexico, 1869; portfolios of photographs by Lucien Clergue, Larry Fink and Vilem Kriz, and Frederick Sommer; the first American collection of cliche-verre, AUTOGRAPH ETCHINGS BY AMERICAN ARTISTS, 1859; monographs signed or inscribed by Paul Caponigro, Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander, Eikoh Hosoe, Danny Lyon, Nathan Lyons and others; Swedish Pictorialist Henry P. Goodwin's rare VART VACKRA STOCKHOLM, limited to 200 copies; technical manuals from the 1850s; and photogravure plates from CAMERA WORK by Steichen, Stieglitz and White.

I am pleased to offer for sale a selection of recently acquired books, photographs and related ephemera. These include: Laure Albin-Guillot's, CIELS, a portfolio of 16 signed Fresson prints, which accompany the text by Marcelle Maurette; a group of 6 illustrated photographic paper samples from the German firm of Ferdinand Beyrich, c. 1861-1865; Gay-Lussac's account of Daguerre's discovery, likely the first published; G. Christopher Davies' 48 photogravure plate portfolios of the Broads and Rivers of Norfolk and Suffolk; a perfect copy of Hosoe's first book, Man and Woman, signed; 2 gelatin silver prints by Joseph Jachna, signed; a unique presentation album of platinum and other photographs produced by the Old Cambridge Photographic Club, 1895; and a 2 page announcement by M.A. Root, c.1846-1847, stating his acquisition of the stock of the Mayall Gallery, Philadelphia, as well as the prices for his varied photographic services.

I am pleased to offer for sale a selection of recent acquisitions, which includes a portfolio of 12 hand-pulled photogravure plates of female nudes by Laure Albin-Guillot; Bill Brandt's rare second book, LONDRES DE NUIT; a unique album of photographic portraits of noted film producer, David O. Selznick by Cartier-Bresson and others; an early American exhibition catalogue featuring Alfred Stieglitz and his circle; Robert de La Sizeranne's anthology of early Pictorialist, LA PHOTOGRAHIE EST-ELLE UN ART?, Paris 1899; and a large selection of early histories and manuals of the technical developments of the photographic medium.

I am pleased to offer for sale a large group of photographic trade catalogues and company publications. These ephemeral pamphlets are quite scarce, usually discarded when an updated one was issued. These span the 1880s to the 1950s and were issued by manufacturers and distributors of cameras, lenses, films, papers, and other photographic supplies; most include prices. Among the companies represented are: AGFA, ANSCO, BAIRD & TATLOCK, BAUSCH & LOMB, BLAIR CAMERA CO., GOERZ OPTICAL, DEFENDER, E. & H.T. ANTHONY, EASTMAN KODAK, GEORGE MURPHY, GEVAERT, GRAFLEX, HALOID CO., HENRI BELLIENI, HESS-IVES, ILFORD, JAMES QUEEN, JOHN ROYLE & SONS, LUMIERE, PAUL LEINERT, ROCHESTER CAMERA CO., SCOVILL MANUFACTURING, TRIPAK LABORATORIES, and VOIGTLANDER.

This sampling is but a fraction of my inventory; for a larger selection, please visit my website http://www.cahanbooks.com. New additions are uploaded regularly.

I am pleased to offer for sale a selection of newly catalogued items from our large inventory of the technical history of photography. These include Blanquart-Evrard's INTERVENTION DE L'ART DANS LA PHOTOGRAPHIE, several annual reports, including the first from the International Congress of Photography, Estabrooke's THE FERROTYPE AND HOW TO MAKE IT in a variant binding, Otte's LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY [1858] the first manual on the subject, three works by Henry Peach Robinson, and two editions of Rodger's TWENTY-THREE YEARS UNDER A SKY-LIGHT.

I am pleased to offer for sale a selection of recent acquisitions, which includes Sir David Brewster's THE STEREOSCOPE: ITS HISTORY, THEORY, AND CONSTRUCTION, a few exhibition catalogues from the French EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE INTERNATIONALE 1878 & 1900, Laussedat's RECHERCHES SUR LES INSTRUMENTS, LES MÉTHODES LES DESSIN TOPOGRAPHIQUES, complete in three parts, and a large group of works by Léon Vidal, many inscribed to his mother.