Photography from Donald Heald Rare Books

Wellington Bridge, Hobart, Australia: Anson Brothers Firm; John Watt Beattie, 1900. Folio albums. Sizes: (9 1/4 x 12 inches) 24 ff.; (14 x 17 inches) 68 ff.; (14 x 17 inches) 40 ff. Image Sizes: (5 3/4 x 8 inches); (10 x 13 inches). 100 photographs in 3 albums. First is 48 albumen photographs mounted recto verso on thick… Read more about this item

New York: Julius Bien. Printed by the New York Lithographing, Engraving, and Printing Company, 16 and 18 Park Place, 1870. 4to. (12 x 9 1/2 inches). Edition of 50. [i]-viii [1]-150. 158 pp. 30 numbered and card-mounted albumen silver photographic prints with printed titles. Half-title, Photo of Moore's Lake, Title printed red and black, List of Views, Table of… Read more about this item

New York: M. B. Brady, F. d'Avignon, C. Edwards Lester, 1850. Folio. (21 x 15 inches). Letterpress title and salutation leaf. 12 lithograph portraits on india paper, mounted as issued, by d'Avignon after daguerreotypes by Brady (11) and a painting by S[piridione] Gambardella (1). Each plate with the publisher's blindstamp in the lower margin. Expertly bound to style in… Read more about this item

Calcutta: Johnston and Hoffmann, 1908. Oblong 4to. (8 x 10 2/5 inches). Unpaginated, but 192 pp. Title, Preface, 53 black and white collotypes on stiff card from White's glass negatives each with letterpress text description, and one large folding panorama of a monastery amid the Himalayas at rear. With a contemporary newspaper clipping laid in of a White photograph… Read more about this item

Paris: Editions G. L. M. 79 Avenue de Segur. Type printed by Les Presses des Editions G. L. M. [Guy Lévis Mano, typographer (1904-1980)]; heliogravures printed by Les Presses de Breger, 1935. 4to. (9 1/2 x 7 inches). pp. 52. Foliated in pencil 1-18 including 5 original photographs. Number 388 out of 1000 copies on papier velin from a… Read more about this item

Washington, D. C.: Addis Gallery, 308 Pennsylvania Ave, 1867. Albumen photograph. (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches.). Albumen photographic print on contemporary mount. An official diplomatic portrait of Chief Solomon Iron Nation, signatory to numerous major treaties with the US Government, taken while in D. C. to negotiate on behalf of the Lakota. Photographed by Antonio Zeno Shindler, an… Read more about this item

The Hague: Edition Unida, 1970. 4to. (10 7/8 x 9 3/4 inches). 27 gelatin silver prints, each tipped to thick card. Each stamped "épreuve originale Man Ray," the first one also signed in ink on the reverse. Signed and numbered "49" in ink (colophon). Number 49 from an edition of 50 signed copies numbered 1-50; plus 9 signed copies… Read more about this item

Hartford, Connecticut; Paris: James Thrall Soby; Cahiers d'Art, 1934. 4to. (12 x 9 1/4 inches). 104 heliogravures of Man Ray's photographs and rayographs. With a portrait by Picasso. Texts by André Breton, Paul Eluard, Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp), and Tristan Tzara. First edition, second issue with the publisher's fictitious "second edition." Inscribed by Man Ray on front wrapper verso… Read more about this item

Munich: Kehayoff, 1999. Quarto. (13 x 10 1/4 inches). First English language edition of the 1995 Czech original, 405pp, many reproduced photographs and scholarly essays. Publisher's boards with inset pictorial label, glassine dustwrapper, and cardboard slipcase. Fine copy. Collection of Josef Sudek's most important works. Dubbed the "poet of Prague," Sudek was one of the most important and… Read more about this item

Fort Laramie, Wyoming: A[lexander] Gardner. 511 Seventh Street, Washington DC, 1868. Albumen Silver Photograph. Albumen silver photograph on letter-pressed beige board mount with gilt decorative border joined by print attribution and series title caption, "Fort Laramie" pencilled in lower right margin. Image: (12 3/4 x 18 3/4 inches). Sheet: (19 1/4 x 23 3/4 inches). An early townscape of… Read more about this item

Breclav: Moravia Press, 1996. Large quarto. 12 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches. #299 of 300 copies, text in Czech; vi, 96pp. 83 mounted black and white photographs (from 2 x 1 1/2" to 9 x 6 1/2") reproduced in photolithography to their original sizes, captioned by the original Sudek notes below each photograph in facsimile pencil as in Sudek's… Read more about this item

Rome: La Nuova Foglio, 1976. Large quarto. (12 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches). First edition, xv, 342pp. Hundreds of reproductions of works and photos in black and white. Foreword by Roberto Sanesi. Introduction by the Artist. Italian and English texts. Black publisher's cloth with dust jacket. Fine copy. The life's work of the German painter, graphic artist, avant-garde… Read more about this item

Massachusetts: Leo & Wolfe Photography, Inc, 1999. Small folio. (12 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches). First edition, 216pp; number 1294 of 2000 trade edition copies, signed by photographer Cy DeCosse. Many hand-pulled photogravures and tri-tone photographs throughout. Blue publisher's cloth with black lettering on spine and black and white photograph on cover, dustjacket. Fine copy. The volume illuminates,… Read more about this item

New York City: Distributed Art Publishers, Inc, 2007. Large quarto. (12 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches). First edition, 97pp. 89 tri-tone black and white photographs printed under the supervision of Daniel Frank of Meridian Printing from separations by Thomas Palmer. Features short introduction by the photographer. Mustard-colored publisher's cloth, black and white photograph on front cover, gold and silver… Read more about this item

New York City: Graphis Inc, 1997. Folio. (13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches). 224pp. 250 black-and-white and color nude photographs. Illustrated publisher's boards with dust jacket. Fine copy. The second volume of the Graphis series, dedicated to the art of nude photography, past and present. Representing a diverse range of styles spanning many decades, this all-new edition… Read more about this item

Germany: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1999. Quarto. (13 x 7 inches). 251pp. 156 black and white plates. Publisher's cloth with dust jacket. Fine copy. A collection of Edward Weston's life work. Text in English, French, and German. Essay by Terence Pitts. Personal portrait by Ansel Adams. Includes many of Weston's best known and most important images. "Few photographers… Read more about this item

New York City: Aperture Foundation Inc, 1995. Folio. (12 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches). First edition, 80pp. 60 black and white tri-tone photographs with caption and location notes. Publisher's cloth boards, grey spine with gilt lettering, dust jacket. Fine copy. A black and white photographic essay by acclaimed photographer Robert Adams about where a great river meets the… Read more about this item

Lyme, Connecticut: Callaway Editions Inc, 1980. Small folio. (13 1/2 x 11 inches). First edition. 48 duo-tone plates, laser-scanned directly from the original photographs and printed in 300-line screen offset lithography. Beige publisher's cloth with gilt title. Fine copy. A photographic exploration of the water's edge, 40 years in the making. Featuring an introductory poem by award-winning poet… Read more about this item

1866. Mounted albumen photograph, approximately 10 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches, on contemporary card mount. Manuscript caption below the image. Large albumen photograph by George Barnard. Barnard had worked as a photographer documenting the Civil War from about 1861, initially working for Mathew Brady and Edward Anthony, and then, from December 1863, for the Topographical Branch of the… Read more about this item

1866. Mounted albumen photograph on contemporary card mount. Manuscript caption below the image. Minor abrasion lower left, faint darker area upper left. Large albumen photograph by George Barnard. Barnard had worked as a photographer documenting the Civil War from about 1861, initially working for Mathew Brady and Edward Anthony, and then, from December 1863, for the Topographical… Read more about this item