Daguerréotype (47 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated with map and other glossy B&W plates including early Daguerreotype of the subject / Cover by Sisil G. Gannon (illustrator). 1st Edition. A modest number of pages in this 1926 octavo first edition remain unopened; a dull knife will be called for. A slim strip of 3/16ths inch X 1-1/2 inches is missing from bottom of jacket front panel, impacting no type. PON Thova Ingebritson inked to top of otherwise blank FFE. 324 pp. including Index. Reduced from $63.

Condition: GOOD. Ninth plate square gold frame bright full case present DATE PUBLISHED: 1860 CIRCA EDITION:

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Hollis of The London Printing and Publishing Company (engraving); Paine of Islington (daguerreotype) (illustrator). London: The London Printing and Publishing Company, 1860. Steel engraving by Hollis from a daguerreotype by Paine of Islington. Small quarto size, in this case 10 3/4" 6 7/8", overall; image area at largest decorative extremities is 9" x 6". Depicted is "Miss Glyn as Cleopatra" in William Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 2, Scene 5 (see scan). Small, light dampstain at lower left, several small and light points of foxing (see scan). Very Good + to about Near Fine. L-eph.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Hollis of The London Printing and Publishing Company (engraving); Paine of Islington (daguerreotype) (illustrator). London: The London Printing and Publishing Company, 1860. Steel engraving by Hollis from a daguerreotype by Paine of Islington. Small quarto size, in this case 10 3/4" 6 7/8", overall; image area at largest decorative extremities is 9" x 6". Depicted is "Mr. Henry Betty as Faulconbridge" in William Shakespeare's "King John", Act 1, Scene 1 (see scan). Henry Betty was likely a descendant of the renowned British child actor, William Henry West Betty. Small, light dampstain at lower left, several small and light points of foxing (see scan). Very Good + to about Near Fine. L-eph.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. John Tallis & Co. (engraving); Paine of Islington (daguerreotype) (illustrator). London: John Tallis & Co., 1860. Steel engraving from a daguerreotype by Paine of Islington. Small quarto size, in this case 10 3/4" 6 7/8", overall; image area at largest decorative extremities is 8 1/8" x 6". Depicted is "Mr. H. Marston as Marc Antony" in William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar", Act 3, Scene 2 (see scan). Small, light dampstain at lower left, several small and light points of foxing (see scan). Very Good + to about Near Fine. L-eph.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Hollis of The London Printing and Publishing Company (engraving); Mayall (daguerreotype) (illustrator). London: The London Printing and Publishing Company, 1860. Steel engraving by Hollis from a daguerreotype by Mayall. Small quarto size, in this case 10 3/4" 6 7/8", overall; image area at largest decorative extremities is 8 3/4" x 6 1/4". Depicted is "Mr. Hackett As Falstaff" wearing antlers in William Shakespeare's "Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5, Scene 5 (see scan). Very small dampstain at lower right, one small point of foxing (see scan). Better than Very Good, just short of near fine. L-eph.

Condition: Good. 2-3/4 X 3-1/4 inches. No identification. In original copper matting and copper frame but lacks clamshell case. Woman is wear triangular satin scarf with tips tucked in at waist and a light cotton bonnet tied beneath her chin. She is staring rather hard at the camera. Faint rouging of her cheek. c. 1860. Image is Good plus with slight pitting over all surface. Picture available on request.

Condition: GOOD. Ninth plate square gold frame bright full case present DATE PUBLISHED: 1860 CIRCA EDITION:

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Hollis of The London Printing and Publishing Company (engraving); Mayall (daguerreotype) (illustrator). London: The London Printing and Publishing Company, 1860. Steel engraving by Hollis from a daguerreotype by Mayall. Small quarto size, in this case 10 3/4" 7 1/4", overall; image area at largest decorative extremities is 9 3/4" x 7 1/8". Depicted are "Miss Ellen Bateman as Richard 3rd. Act 4. Sc 4." and "Miss Kate Bateman as Richmond. "Richard 3rd. Act 5. Scene 3." respectively. Hollis of The London Printing and Publishing Company (engraving); Mayall (daguerreotype) (see scan). Light, small dampstain at lower left, somewhat uneven trim at overall bottom edge. Very Good. L-eph.

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. Cover reproduction of a daguerreotype of Clemens circa 1852 (illustrator). First Edition. Near fine with some tiny dots. One sheet folded to make four pages on card stock. This item was initially for the members and attendees at the 18th annual meeting of t heir association. According to Butterfield's introduction, this is the first reprinting of "Hannibal, Missouri" since its original appearance in 1852. The two items reprinted here are the first two items of Twain's to appear in national publications.

Condition: Fine. KOS03300025.

Condition: GOOD. Ninth plate oval gold frame bright full case present DATE PUBLISHED: 1860 CIRCA EDITION:

Condition: GOOD. Ninth plate oval gold frame bright top portion of case missing DATE PUBLISHED: 1860 CIRCA EDITION:

Condition: GOOD. Ninth plate oval gold frame bright top portion of case missing DATE PUBLISHED: 1860 CIRCA EDITION:

Hardcover. Condition: very good. No Jacket. 5pp. 8vo, disbound, A welli-informed article that also looks at Niepce's contribution to Louis-Jacques-Mand Daguerre's process. His invention was only announced to the public on 19 August, 1839 at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris.

Condition: Good. Engraving. 11.3 x 14.7 cm. (image size). Very Good.

Condition: VG. c. 1850. 2-3/4 X 3-1/4 inches. No identification. In original copper matting and copper frame but lacks clamshell case. Man has satin vest and large watch chain . Both have lightly rouged cheeks. Couple looks happy, both have gentle smiles on their faces - nice to see someone smiling in a daguerreotype. Image is VG with light scratching only on top margin area. Picture available on request.

Condition: Good. Steel engraving. 28 x 19 cm (sheet). With the blindstamp of Teachers College, Bryson Library, New York, in upper right sheet corner. With facsimile signature. Very Good, sheet lightly toned.

Condition: Good. Stipple and line engraving. 24.5 x 15 cm. (sheet). Facsimile signature below image. Very Good. Minor toning along sheet edges.

Very scarce first edition. 8vo, in the publisher's original yellow paper wrappers printed in black. Now housed in an unusual and very attractive black protective box with Plexi protector, the lid held in place by stiff panel decorated with an sepia photograph visible through a port. iv, 248 pp. A rare first edition copy in fully original state and in the printer's delicate wrappers, the text largely unopened and quite fine but for some very minor spotting or mellowing, the wrappers with some soiling and wear but completely original and unsophisticated, the spine largely worn. FIRST EDITION. VERY RARE IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, THIS COPY IN FULLY ORIGINAL STATE AND LARGELY UNOPENED. ARGUABLY THE FIRST DEFINITIVE MANUAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY. Marc-Antoine Gaudin's full and complete treatise on the Daguerréotype process was at the time the definitive manual on photography and covered virtually every aspect of making both Daguerréotype and the Calotype developed by Talbot. Includes the preparation of plates and their exposure, processing, printing on paper, procedures for reproducing plates, techniques for portraiture, etc., etc. Marc-Antoine, with his brother Alexis, were important early pioneers in the business of photography and were responsible for numerous refinements. He held patents in both optics and chemistry and had one of the first photography shops in Paris. Marc-Antoine engaged in research while Alexis was in charge of commercial affairs. In 1851 he purchased the photo-newspaper La Lumiere, which he ran until 1867. The Gaudin brothers also set up a stereoscopy company in the United States.

Hardcover. Condition: Gut bis sehr gut. Daguerreotypien Fotos Harrisburg, Pennsylvania um 1855 von Bruder und Schwester --- Zwei exzellent erhaltene Daguerreotypien (Sechstelplatte) von Junge und Mädchen, jeweils auf einem Stuhl sitzend. Es handelt sich um Catherine Kelker (* 24. Oktober 1849 in Harrisburg, gest. 9. Juni 1885 ebd.) und ihren jüngeren Bruder George Beatty Kelker (* 9. Januar 1852 in Harrisburg, gest. 24. März 1896 ebd.), der später Louisa Dickel (1857-1920) heiratete. Sie waren die Kinder von Immanuel Meister Kelker (1822-1880) und der Mary Ann, geb. Beatty (1825-1897), Tochter von George Washington Beatty (1781-1862), die beide auch aus Harrisburg stammten. --- Jeweils zeitgenössisch gerahmt hinter Glas; das Porträt des Mädchens in kleinem Schmuckkästchen (am Rand moderne handschriftliche Zuordnung "Catherine Kelker 1849-1885"), das des Jungen in einfachem Rahmen (rückseitig frei). --- Sehr scharfe, detailreiche Aufnahmen. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania um 1855. Originale Daguerreotypien eines anonymen Fotografen, in Schmuckkästchen bzw. Rahmen der Zeit (hinter Glas im Passepartout). Sechstelplatte; Bildausschnitt 7 x 6 cm; Format des Schmuckkästchens Rahmens 11,8 x 9 cm. Zustand: Rahmen leicht berieben, Daguerreotypien in sehr gutem Zustand.

Condition: VG. Original daguerreotype photograph, c. 1855, of unknown seated young man. Copper matting around image. Housed in original wooden leather-covered clamshell box 3 x 3-1/2 inches with original working metal clasp and original hinge. Image is surrounded by a pretty rainbow left by the photographic process. The image is strong and unscratched. His cheeks have been lightly rouged. He is wearing the wide rectangular necktie of the period. Box is VG lightly rubbed. Picture available on request.

Condition: Near Fine. c. 1860. In original 3 x 3-1/2 inch hardcover clam case with both of its original metal clasps. Full embossed leather. Woman appear to be in her thirties. Excellent condition. Near Fine. Picture available on request.

The coat of arms, in red, black, yellow and blue, is carefully painted directly onto a 22 x 18 cm leaf removed from album. In fair condiion, on aged paper, with chipping and a small closed tear at foot affecting the motto ('VIRTUTIS FORTUNA COMES'). Above the motto is the quarterly coat of Wellesley and Colley, with a coronet above it, topped by the crest. Laid down in the top left-hand corner of the page is the 7.5 x 5.5cm photographic print of the engraving from a daguerreotype by Claudet, showing a seated Wellington, facing to his left, with his left hand curled round the arm rest of his chair. In fair condition, with slight wear to edges. This image is not present in the National Portrait Gallery collection, which does have a mezzotint version, published 1 May 1845, showing only Wellington's head and shoulders, said to be 'by Henry Thomas Ryall, published by James Watson, published by Goupil & Vibert, after Abraham Solomon, after Antoine Claudet'. Claudet's original photograph, taken in 1844, faced the other way, and again did not show hands and chair. In top right-hand corner of page, in contemporary hand: 'Master General of the Ordnance 1818. | Lord Warden of Cinque Ports. | Commander in Chief 1848. | First Lord of Treasury 1827 & 34 | Foreign Secretary in 1834.' Laid down on the reverse of the page is an engraving of the poet Thomas Haynes Bayley (1797-1839). See Image.

circa 25,5 x 21 cm. 1 leaf, text on both sides folded "Letter by the author Friedrich Noesselt who was professor for history at the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Wroclaw. He is telling a "Sophie" about his sons and other acquaintances. Of particular interest are his informations about his son Albert, who is recorded in multiple contemporary publications as an inventor and "Mechanikus". In 1844 for instance he presented a levelling instrument, a galvanic battery and crystal lattices at the industrial exhibition in Berlin (cf. Neukrantz, A. F. Ausführlicher Bericht über die große, allgemeine deutsche Gewerbe-Ausstellung in Berlin im Jahre 1844. Berlin 1845, p. 282). Here Friedrich Noesselt says that Albert is giving up daguerreotypy as there are two others in Breslau who specialize in that field. Zygmunt Wielowiejski in his study about the beginnings of photography in Breslau does not mention Noesselt and can only speculate about the early years since 1839. The first recorded evidence he can find, is from this very year 1843 - "in 1843, Hermann Krone, who came from Breslau, and who later became a renowned daguerreotypist and photographer in Dresden, began experimenting with photography. At that time he was also studying at the University of Breslau and before he left the city for good in 1849, he made talbotypes and then daguerreotypes, of which nine have survived. In the same year, the first two professional daguerreotypists arrived in Breslau. Julius Brill was the first to open a studio. Later seven travelling daguerreotypists arrived in the city." (Zygmunt Wielowiejski. The beginnings of photography in Breslau / Zaczelo sie od dagerotypow. 2012, with english summary). - The letter by Friedrich Noesselt goes on to give a rather cruel account about the son of a common friend who apparently shot himself as a consequence of failed methods of education etc. - Important early testimony of the expansion of Daguerreotype in Eastern Europe, the relevant sentence: "Das Daguerrotypiren will er ganz einstellen, da zwei Andere sich hier damit beschäftigen." (He wants to give daguerreotype up completely as two others are occupied with that here). ".

Condition: Good. Engraved portrait and signature of John C. Calhoun, framed in 1924 by Goodpeed's Book Shop, Boston. Framed 11.5 x 9 inches.John C. Calhoun was Monroe's Secretary of War from 1817-1825, Vice President under J.Q. Adams and Jackson (1825-1832), Tyler's Secretary of State (1844-1845), and U.S. Senator from South Carolina (1832-1843, 1845-1850). Richard M. Johnson represented Kentucky in the House of Representatives (1807-1819, 1829-1837) and U.S. Senate (1819-1829) and served as Van Buren's Vice President (1837-1841).

6. Portrait of a young woman wearing long gloves, encased, kept in a contemporary tooled leather holder, inside with red velvet lining, gilt ondulating frame. Ca. 1850. Holder size 95 x 78 mm.

Rarissime plaquette technique sur le daguerréotype usuel dit daguerréotype Gaudin, dont le brevet a été déposé en 1852.Marc Antoine Gaudin (1804-1880) était un chimiste et inventeur notoire, calculateur au Bureau des longitudes.

10. Paris, (imprimerie Firmin Didot), s.d. ( 1840), in-48°, 70 x 50 mm , 96 pp, with 12 full page illustrations. No title page ( as published). Publisher's cased binding in glazed paper with embossed gilt decoration on the front cover. Binding a bit dustsoiled but still a good copy. Very rare Christmas gift book ( livre d'étrennes ) published barely a year after the invention of the daguerrotype photograph. OCLC lists only two copies, with incomplete descriptions. The publication of this book is described in the bibliography of F. Denis '' Nouveau Manuel de bibliographie universelle'' , vol. 2 pp. 446. ( published in Paris by Encyclopédie Roret in 1857) ; and also in Emile Bellier de la Chavignerie '' Manuel bibliographique du Photographe Français '' item 10 on page 6 (published in Paris by A. Aubry in 1863).

A 13 1/3" x 9" hand colored lithograph depicting a portrait of Tom Thumb standing on a somewhat regal looking chair, with his hands on his hips. The image is surrounded by 13 vignettes of Thumb appearing in various roles from Cupid to Sampson and Hercules. It is captioned "General Tom Thumb, Born in 1837 - 31 Inches and weights, only 25 Pounds from a Daguerreotype by Plumbe. A footer at base reads HAVING BEEN CONNECTED FOR 12 YEARS WITH P.T. BARNUM ESQ. IS NOW TRAVELLING FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF HIMSELF. Reverse is blank. The footer at base was obviously a publicity stunt as Tom Thumb remained in Barnum for most of his life. That said Tom Thumb (Charles S. Stratton) was a world renown performer. Light to moderate wear. with some light margin toning.