Recent Catalogs from Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, Ltd.

E-LIST 66: Gilded Lilies 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-LIST 65: STIEGLITZ AND HIS CIRCLE 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.

E-List 64: Recent AcquisitionsI am pleased to offer for sale a selection of recent acquisitions whic 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.

E-List 63: Recent Acquisitions 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.

WEBSITE SALE Beginning 6 September through 30 September,


all books, photographsand ephemera will be on sale as follows:


Items priced from $1 - $300 are discounted 40%.


Items priced from $301 and up are discounted 25%.

E-List 61 A PHOTOGRAPHIC MISCELLANY 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.

E-List 60 Recent acquisitions 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.

E-LIST 57: A FEW RECENT ACQUISITIONS 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.

E-LIST # 56:TRADE CATALOGUES & COMPANY PUBLICATIONS 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.

E-list 55: Recent Acquisitions 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.

E-LIST 54: NEVER OVERLOOK THE TECHNICALITIES, PART 3 - STILL HOME ALONE 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.

ELIST 53: HOME ALONE - NEVER OVERLOOK THE TECHNICALITIES, PART 2 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.

ELIST 52 NEVER OVERLOOK THE TECHNICALITIES Including an early printing of Daguerre's process, Becquerel's exhaustive work on the physics of light and its application in color photography, Disdéri's rare RENSEIGNEMENTS PHOTOGRAPHIQUES INDISPENSABLES A TOUS, Poitevin's TRAITÉ DE L'IMPRESSION PHOTOGRAPHIQUE SANS SELS D'ARGENT CONTENANT in first and second editions, manuals on various color processes, travel photography, dry plate, industrial, artificial light, etc. This is the first in a series of forthcoming lists on the technical history.

EList 51 I am pleased to offer for sale a selection of recent acquisitions, which includes Bellmer's LA POUPÉE; several titles by Robert Hunt; an early American exhibition catalogue of Autochromes; a scarce Robert Frank film promotion book; Hill's A TREATISE ON HELIOCHROMY; Lewis Hine's SKYSCRAPER; a unique album from the KOKOON CLUB; three Daytona Beach Orotones by LeSesne; Melloni's RAPPORT SUR LE DAGUERRÉOTYPE, which includes Donne's process for etching daguerreotype plates; a rare Pictorialist catalogue from Strassburg; two unique maquettes by Jean-Pierre Sudre; Wada's TOKAIDO GOJUSAN TSUGI with 56 albumen prints; several important histories, and numerous nineteenth century process manuals.

E-List 44 New acquisitions

E-LIST 43 New acquisitions

WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS PART 2 101 BOOKS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND EPHEMERA BY AND ABOUT WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS

WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS PART 1 100 BOOKS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND EPHEMERA BY AND ABOUT WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS

E-LIST 38: INTHE BEGINNING 74 entries which constitute the critical treatises, manuals and histories of the development of photography.

E-LIST 36 PHOTOGRAPHIC PERIODICALS O - Z The third, and final part of a multi-part series of catalogues from our extensive holdings of over 150 titles.

E-LIST 37 SIGNED BOOKS 32 monographs, original photographs and ephemeral items by some of the leading photographers of the twentieth century; all are SIGNED or INSCRIBED. These include: Berenice Abbott, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Richard Avedon, Lewis Baltz, Harry Callahan, Harold Edgerton, Emmet Gowin, Eikoh Hosoe, Andre Kertesz, Danny Lyon, Irving Penn, Robert Rauschenberg, Josef Sudek, Brett Weston, Edward Weston, Minor White, and others.

PHOTOGRAPHIC PERIODICALS E - N I am am pleased to offer the second of a multi-part series of catalogues from our extensive holdings of over 150 titles of photographic periodicals. This selection includes long or complete runs of: EXPOSURE: JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC EDUCATION, FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS MAGAZINE, FOTO MAGAZINE. PUBLICACION MENSUAL ILUSTRADA CONSAGRADA AL ARTE FOTOGRAFICO (Buenos Aires), GRAPHIC TECHNOLOGY. THE PREPARATION OF PRINTING SURFACES: A BI-MONTHLY REVIEW, GROSSBILD TECHNIK. THE MAGAZINE OF LARGE NEGATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY, HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY: AN INTERNATIONAL QUARTERLY, HUMPHREY’S JOURNAL OF THE DAGUERREOTYPE, IMAGE: JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE, INFINITY: AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPHERS, and such rare titles as IMAGE CONTINUUM, which contains original silver gelatin photographs by Sally Mann, Ted Orland, Jerry Uelsmann, Frank DiPerna, among others, and LA LITHOGRAPHE, JOURNAL DES ARTISTES ETDES IMPRIMEURS, with descripitions of printing from daguerreotypes, 1840.

PHOTOGRAPHIC PERIODICALS A - D I am please to offer for sale the first of a multi-part series of catalogues from our extensive holdings of over 150 titles. This selection includes many long or complete runs of: THE AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER, ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY, ANTHONY'S PHOTOGRAPHIC BULLETIN, APERTURE, THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY, THE BRITISH JOURNAL PHOTOGRAPHIC ALMANAC, and BULLETIN DE LA SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE DE PHOTOGRAPHIE. Also offered are runs from other significant periodicals including, not not limited to: CAMERA NOTES, CAMERA WORK, CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY / THE ARCHIVE, CESKOSLOVENSKA FOTOGRAFIE, CONTACT SHEET, COMTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHER, and THE DAGUERREIAN JOURNAL: DEVOTED TO THE DAGUERREIAN AND PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS. ALSO, EMBRACING THE SCIENCES, ARTS, AND LITERATURE.

E-LIST 33 am please to offer for sale a selection from our recent acquisitions; these include rare works, many of them signed by, Ansel Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Alphonse Bertillon, Louis Desire Blanquart-Evrard, P.R.P. Dagron, P.H. Emerson, Robert Frank, Lorraine Hansberry, Eikoh Hosoe, Georges Hugnet, Germaine Krull, L. Moholy-Nagy, Nadar, and others.

E-List 32 Recent acquisitions: these include works signed by Harry Callahan, Lucien Clergue, Imogen Cunningham, Judy Dater, Arnold Genthe, Ralph Gibson, Emmet Gowin, Barbara Kruger and others.

E-List 31 I am please to offer for sale a selection from our recent acquisitions; these include works signed by M. Alvarez Bravo, Ilse Bing, Wynn Bullock, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, O.Winston Link, et al. Also, there are two rare and important pieces from the Photo-Secession.

SOME PLACES E-LIST 29 A group of 62 books and photographs, from or about various places around the world. Many of these items are SIGNED by the photographers.

E-LIST 24 52 New Acquisitions