1. 19th century European Travel – Ireland (Carrick-A-Rede / Giant’s Causeway / Bideford (Devon) / Torrington (Devon) / Lynton (Devon) / Lynmouth (Devon) / Watersmeet (Devon) / Ilfracombe (Devon) / Carnarvon Castle (Wales) / Forth Bridge – (Wales)/

Original Photoalbum from ca. 1870 / 1880 with 37 original Albumen Print / Albumen Silver Print – Photographs of a Tour through Europe. With very interesting photographs of Ireland’s favourite attractions in County Antrim , a large section of the Devon Region in England (The DEVON – Section includes 15 photographs alone), and some beautiful and rare early colour photographs of Luzern in Switzerland: Examples of images: 8. Bideford in Devon (Promenade with ships and people) / 9. Torrington – Devon (Town Mill Bridge) / 10. Torrington – Devon (Northern Bridge) / Two smaller photographs on one board: 11. Torrington – Devon (Castle Ruins) / 12. Torrington – Devon – (Near Railway Station) / Two smaller photographs on board: 13. Torrington – Devon – (The Avenue) / 14. Torrington – Devon (Valley of Rocks / Castle Rock) / 15. Lynton – North Devon / 16. Lynton – North Devon (Castle Rock) / 17. Lynmouth – Watersmeet / 18. Lynmouth (Bridge /Watersmeet near Lynmouth) / 19. Lynmouth (Picturesque Harbourscene with old fisherhuts on left) / 20. Ilfracombe – North Devon (from the Tours Walk – Top of the Hill) / 21. Ilfracombe – Tour Walk / 22. Ilfracombe – View from Capstone Hill /

Devon, ca.1870/1880/1890. Oblong – Quarto. 37 plates. Hardcover. Recently, professionally rebound in half leather with gilt lettering on spine. The large photographs in very good condition.

2. [Adams, Ansel] Szarkowski, John.

Ansel Adams at 100. Foreword by Sandra S. Phillips.

Boston, New York, London, Little, Brown and Company in Association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001. 27.5 cm x 24.5 cm. 200 pages with 114 tritone and 23 duotone photographs. Softcover. Designed by J. Abbott Miller and Jeremy Hoffman, Pentagram. Cover photograph; ‘Grass and Water, Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park, ca. 1935’ Ansel Adams. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

3. Adams, Marcus.

Child Studies. [Album with seven (7) vintage silver gelatin prints – all signed in a signature album with Adams’ gilted emblemata / supralibro].

London, Marcus Adams, c.1929. Folio. 7 pages. Original Art Deco flexible Hardcover in original slipcase. Extremely beautiful and rare original binding ! Two small coffee-stains on cover of the Volume itself. Slipcase with some minor rubbing and occasional discoloration only. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Besides the vintage photographs all being signed by Marcus Adams, he also signed and dated the Volume on the endpaper: “Marcus Adams – 11/29”.

4. Barwise, Lucy Weston / [Lucy Chapman, George Chapman, Henry Chapman]

Manuscript Autobiography, Diary and vintage photo album of the Chapman – Barwise Family. A cultured London woman’s autobiography and diary including a first hand account of ‘Fiesche’s attempt to assassinate Louis Phillippe’ which she observed while at school in Paris as a child. The manuscript has a mournful postscript by the man she left behind, her husband: ‘Alas! that I George Chapman should have to finish the record of so dear a Life…’ by Lucy Weston Barwise (1822-1876) wrote in a lockable, lined octavo notebook, crushed morocco, marbled endpapers and edges. Her autobiography was begun in January 1872 at one end of the book (16 pages); her diary appears at the other end of the book from October 22 1871-April 1874 with her husband’s postscript dating from June 1880. There is a second volume of family accounts in a lockable octavo sized ledger and a folio sized volume of family photographs, most unlabelled. Barwise’s autobiography recounts her education in Paris in the Rue Taitbout where she witnessed ‘Fiesche’s attempt to assassinate Louis Phillippe’ while watching from her music master’s house opposite the Porte St Martin, noting ‘the Duc D’Orleans [who] looked very handsome’ but shortly afterwards ‘heard a loud report and then a shout… general commotion but the crowd was so thick and immoveable’ and then ‘the King and stiff rode slowly back along the line but looking very white.’ It was only later that she discovered the casualties of ‘Fieschi’s infernal machine… It was a row of gun barrels arranged along a window so as to be discharged all at once.’ Barwise also watched the subsequent funeral from her attic window, the ‘open hearse with its draperies of black and silver’. The highlight of Chapman’s diary is a detailed account of the deaths she witnessed during the ‘Thanksgiving Day for the recovery of the Prince of Wales’ on February 27th, 1872, as seen from her husband George Chapman’s ‘office windows in Cockspur St’ behind Trafalgar Square which overlooked the procession. There she witnessed the lack of barriers and observes with horror the police charging into the surging crowd ‘The big policemen threw themselves against the men; the horses even made to dance and back heel it was a fearful struggle’with a baby almost crushed to death in front of her. There is an interesting secondhand account of Paris under the Commune via one of her daughters and frequent visits to London art exhibitions as on July 8 1871 where she saw an ‘exhibition of old masters at the Royal Academy… Crome, Ruysdael, heads by Moroni, of Titian’s Schoolmaster, Burgomaster by Rembrandt… the two heads.. by Giorgine belonging to Lord Ashburton, such colour and such expression. There are trips to Ascot and the Boat Race, a curry with friends in Wandsworth and a recitation by ‘Mr Bradman [of] the Merchant of Venice for the benefit of the Workman’s Club. It was very clever… Shylock was good but my recollection of actors, Charles Kemble, C.Kean &c made this more familiar and perhaps a little more like ranting’.

[London], c. 1871 – 1872. Octavo. Diary I: 44 pages / Diary II: 24 pages / Photoalbum: 48 pages with 120 original cabinet photographs (including a photograph of a british Forest School). Hardcover / Original full leather. All three Volumes slightly rubbed but all in very good condition. The cabinet photographs all in excellent condition and from dozens of different victorian photographers in Bath (Friese Greene), Bonn (Emil Koch), Astley (Photograpic Landscape Artist in Astley, Essex), and many others. The one diary is really a cash ledger of George Chapman where he kept track for the Chapman family with listings of expenses for Hampstead House, Henry Chapman, Edward Chapman, Oswald D. Chapman, Mrs. Barrett Chapman, Edith Louisa Chapman.

5. [Bauhaus] Herzogenrath, Wulf.

Bauhausfotografie – Eine Ausstellung des Instituts fuer Auslandsbeziehungen.

Koeln, Dr.Cantz’sche Druckerei, 1983. Quarto (21.4 cm wide x 29.7 cm high). 95 pages. Illustrated. Illustrated Softcover. Einband mit kleineren Einrissen unterhalb des Einband-Fotos. Sonst sehr gut erhalten.

6. [Beckett, Samuel] Haynes, John and Knowlson, James.

“Images of Beckett” [Rare SIGNED by photographer John Haynes and writer James Knowlson].

Cambridge, University Press, 2003. Oblong-Quarto. XXXIII, 159 pages with 146 photographs throughout and six additional plates which highlight arguments of Knowlson’s essays (Caspar Davd Friedrich, Caravaggio, Brueghel etc.). Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent, as new condition.

7. [Beckett, Samuel] Minihan, John.

Samuel Beckett – Centenary Shadows [Signed]. With Essays by John Wallace / Billie Whitelaw / Desmond O’Grady.

First and only Edition. London, Robert Hale Limited, 2006. Small Quarto (19.6 cm wide x 25.3 cm high). 124 pages. Illustrated with Minihan’s photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. SIGNED and dated by John Minihan in the year of publication, 2006. Excellent, close to new condition.

8. [Brassai] (that was Gyula Halász).

The Secret Paris of the 30’s. Translated from the French by Richard Miller.

First American Edition. New York, Pantheon Books, 1976. Quarto. 200 unnumbered pages with 150 black-and-white-photographs. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Blindstamp of preowner on endpaper and titlepage. Signed and inscribed by Brassai on the titepage in New York on the 29th of May, 1977.

9. Bronsky, Eric / Samors, Neal.

Downtown Chicago in Transition. Foreword by Joel Daly.

Second Edition. Chicago, Chicago’s Books Press, 2007. 22,5 cm x 29 cm. 253 pages with illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

10. Cahill, Holger and Barr, Alfred H.

Art in America in Modern Times. [With an essay by Lincoln Kirstein – Photography in the United States / With an essay by Henry-Russell Hitchcock: Henry Robson Richardson – The Development of the Skyscraper]. Edited by Holger Cahill and Alfred H Barr Jr.

First Edition. London, Methuen and Co Ltd, 1934. 24cm x 32cm. 110 pages. Original Hardcover without dustjacket. Titlepage with faint staining only. Otherwise overall in very good condition with only very minor signs of wear to the binding.