Daguerreotypes (11 results)
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Published by Division of Mines, State of California, San Francisco, CA, 1971
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Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.Clausen Books, RMABA
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Add to basketStiff Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Fourth Printing. Book block clean and tight. Light shelf wear to cover. 128pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Drawings, Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes (illustrator). Paperback.
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Published by Macmillan Company of Canada, Toronto, Canada, 1913
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Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.Dorley House Books, Inc.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. navy c w/gilt spine titles; rubbing and lite wear at extremities; 427 clean, unmarked pages. signed by author on title page; Scarce. 83 half-tones from Daguerreotypes and phhotos (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).
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Published by John Tallis and Company, 1851
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Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.Shaker Mill Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1/2 black leather over black boards titled in gilt on spines, outer hinges splitting but boards, spine strips and all pages well-attached, 232 engravings on 159 plates, including 5 folding plates, two engraved titles, 320 pp. & 304pp., previous owner's name to early blank page of volume ii,… otherwise clean, unmarked pages throughout. "Illustrated by upwards of two hundred steel engravings from original drawings and daguerreotypes. (illustrator).
Published by London: The Illustrated London News, Supplement (Gratis), Jan. 3., 1852
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Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Wittenborn Art Books
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Add to basketCondition: Good. Double-page wood engraving on newsprint. Text on verso. 40 x 57 cm (sheet). Very Good, age toning along the sheet edges, some tears along left sheet edge.
Published by London: The Illustrated London News, March 6., 1852
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Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Wittenborn Art Books
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Add to basketCondition: Good. Double-page wood engraving on newsprint. Text on verso. 40 x 57 cm (sheet). Good, age toning along the sheet edges, a few tears along bottom sheet edge, holes along center fold, tear at top sheet edge extending into image.
Published by London: The Illustrated London News, Supplement (Gratis), Jan. 24., 1852
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Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Wittenborn Art Books
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Add to basketCondition: Good. Double-page wood engraving on newsprint. Text on verso. 40 x 57 cm (sheet). Very Good, age toning along the sheet edges, a few tears along bottom sheet edge.
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Published by London: 1851., Office,, 1851
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Seller: Alec R. Allenson, Inc., Westville, FL, U.S.A.Alec R. Allenson, Inc.
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. 1st edition. and those that will not work. Vols. I-II, books 1-2: the London street-folk. [8], 492 + 396 double-column p.; 51 il.; 23.5 cm. Parts 1-48 [of 63 issued], vol. II without front-matter, ending abruptly at p. 396 [p. 448 in 1861 ed.] in section on sewers and drains -- Imprint on verso of title-page, London:…George Woodfall and Son. -- The woodcut illustrations (usually 1 per part) were printed with the text: the first 8 paged consecutively, the remaining 43 outside the pagination. Thus the portrait of Mayhew, called for as frontispiece, faces p. 486 with which it is conjugate. -- Captions of plates (which include the street cry of each seller): London costermonger; The coster girl; The oyster stall; The orange mart (Duke's Place); The Irish street-seller; The wall-flower girl; The groundsell man; Baked potatoe man; Coffee stall; Coster boy and girl "tossing the pieman"; Doctor Bokanky, the street-herbalist; The long-song seller; Illustrations of street art I-IV; Hindoo tract seller; "Kitchen," Fox Court; Book auctioneer; The street-seller of: nutmeg-graters, dog-coll ars, crockerware, grease-removing composition, walking-sticks, rhubarb and spice, combs; The blind boot-lace seller; Mr. Mayhew -- Vol. II: A view in Rosemary-Lane;Scene in Petticoat-Lane; The street dog-seller, birds' nests, crippled bird-seller; The bone-grubber [from here on: sketches by Henning]; The Jew old-clothes man; The mud-lark; The London dustman;The London sweep; Street orderlies; View of a dust yard; London scavenger; The sweeps' home; The able-bodied pauper street-sweeper; The rubbish-carter; The milkmaid's garland; One of the few remaining climbing sweeps; London nightmen; Flushing the sewers; The rat-catchers of the sewers; The sewer-hunter. Fair orig. 1/2 calf. Upper spine torn loose, title-piece chipped. from Daguerreotypes by Beard (illustrator).
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Seller: Max Rambod Inc, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.Max Rambod Inc
Contact seller5-star sellerThe Vermont Journal. November 16, 1849. Measures 23 x 17.5 inches. 4 pages. Advertisement on paper's back page reads "Daguerreotype Miniatures, Alonzo G. Amsden would inform his friends and the public that he has taken rooms over the New York Store where he is prepared to execute Daguerroeotype Likenesses set in gold lockets, ri…ngs, cases, frames in the latest and most approved style. Having availed himself of one of the best German Instruments in the United States, and all the late improvements in the art, and that in addition to his former practice in the business, he flatters himself he can execute as good a likeness as those in the city, or elsewhere." Invented by Louis Daguerre and introduced to the global public in 1839, daguerreotypes were the first publicly available photographic process, widely used during the 1840s and 50s before being replaced by less expensive later processes. The image was printed on a mirror-like silver surface appearing in both positive and negative depending on its viewing angle. Paper has small tears along one edge does not affect text or images. Overall very good condition.
Le Daguerréotype.(Analyse de la communication faite à l'Academie par M. Arago).
"DAGUERRE, LOUIS J.M. - (ARAGO, FRANCOIS). - THE FIRST DESCRIPTION OF THE PRODUCTION OF DAGUERREOTYPES.
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Seller: Herman H. J. Lynge & Søn ILAB-ABF, Copenhagen, DenmarkHerman H. J. Lynge & Søn ILAB-ABF
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Add to basketParis, Crochard et Comp., 1839. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spine. In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', 2e series, Volume 71. (4),445,(3) pp. (Entire volume offered). Arago's paper: pp. 313-340. The first and last leaves with some browning. A few scattered brownspots. First printing of probably the first (in the Juillet… issue of Annales) official announcement of Daguerre's invention of the photographic process. The paper offered here preceeded the official report in Comptes Rendues which was published at the end of 1839 (in the July-December issue). The first report of on the discovery was presented to the Royal Academy on January 7, 1839 and delivered in full on August 19, 1839 (and printed in the July-Dec. issue of Comptes Rendues). The paper also preceeded Daguerre's own publication of 1839 "Historique et description du daguerréotypie."In 1839 Arago took a personal interest in announcing and popularizing the inventions of Niepce and Daguerre, who were awarded government pensions as a result of Arago?s recognition of their inventions? potential significance."In 1829 Daguerre went into partnership with Niepce, who had managed to produce images by the action of light some three years earlier but had failed to make the process really practical. Daguerre carried on and began to use copper plates on which silver salts were deposited. ight was made to focus upon that and an image was formed. The light portions of the image darkened the salts, while the shadowy portions left them unaffected. The unchanged salt was dissolved away by sodium thiosulfate (a process that had been suggested by John Herschel and a permanent image of sorts was left behind."(Asimov).
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Le Daguerréotype.(Analyse de la communication faite à l'Academie par M. Arago).
"DAGUERRE, LOUIS J.M. - (ARAGO, FRANCOIS). - THE FIRST DESCRIPTION OF THE PRODUCTION OF DAGUERREOTYPES.
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Seller: Herman H. J. Lynge & Søn ILAB-ABF, Copenhagen, DenmarkHerman H. J. Lynge & Søn ILAB-ABF
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Add to basketParis, Crochard et Comp., 1839. Orig. printed yellow wrappers (no backstrip). In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', 2e series, Volume 71, Juillet- issue, pp. 225-352 (entire July-issue offered with orig. wrappers and titlepage to vol. 71). Arago's paper: pp. 313-340. First printing of probably the first (the Juillet issue of An…nales) official announcement of Daguerre's invention of the photographic process. The paper offered here preceeded the official report in Comptes Rendues which was published at the end of 1839 (in the July-December issue). The first report of on the discovery was presented to the Royal Academy on January 7, 1839 and delivered in full on August 19, 1839 (and printed in the July-Dec. issue of Comptes Rendues). The paper also preceeded Daguerre's own publication of 1839 "Historique et description du daguerréotypie."In 1839 Arago took a personal interest in announcing and popularizing the inventions of Niepce and Daguerre, who were awarded government pensions as a result of Arago?s recognition of their inventions? potential significance."In 1829 Daguerre went into partnership with Niepce, who had managed to produce images by the action of light some three years earlier but had failed to make the process really practical. Daguerre carried on and began to use copper plates on which silver salts were deposited. ight was made to focus upon that and an image was formed. The light portions of the image darkened the salts, while the shadowy portions left them unaffected. The unchanged salt was dissolved away by sodium thiosulfate (a process that had been suggested by John Herschel and a permanent image of sorts was left behind."(Asimov).Together with JEAN CHARLES PELTIER "Mémoire sur la Formation des Tables des Rapports qu'il y entre la Force d'un Courant électrique et la Déviation des aiguilles des multiplicateurs" suivi de Recherches sur la Causes de Pertubation des couples thermo-électriques.", pp. 225-313.
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Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, AustraliaMichael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB
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Add to basketThe Radfords were born in Devon, emigrated to South Australia in October 1838, and lived in the Barossa Valley from the mid-1840s until their death. From the perceived ages of the subjects, these images would appear to date from the 1850s. Other (later) images of the Radfords are held in the State Library of South Australia. The…y substantiate the identification, and confirm that these daguerreotypes, by an anonymous photographer, are of (rural South) Australian origin, as the Radfords did not leave the colony after they arrived here in 1838. Both images are in excellent condition, with the original brass mats (one a little tarnished), preservers and glass, but uncased as found. Any daguerreotype of Australian origin is rare, rural South Australian ones excessively so in our experience. [2 items].
