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Paris - Photography:

Gosling, Nigel. NADAR
NY 1976 1st American Knopf. Biography of Felix Tournachon, France's greatest pioneer photographer. "A photographic pantheon - from Baudelaire to Bernhardt - of 19thc Paris." (jacket) Hardcover. Lg.4to., 298pp., illustrations, index, cloth. Fine in Fine DJ. (a11104)
$39.00 Henle, Fritz . PARIS
Chicago 1947 1st Ziff Davis. Text by Elliot Paul. 4to., about 50pp., photo illustrations with brief titles, blue cloth hardcover. Good plus, one tiny pinprick in spine, spine lettering mostly worn off, light cover rubbing, no DJ. (a70078)
$32.00(fashion). VOGUE - NOVEMBRE 1949 - LA MODE D'HIVER LES FOURRURES
Paris. 1949. In French. Fur Coats. Fashion by Schiaparelli, Desses, Lafaurie, Carpentier, Rochas, etc. Photography by Robert Randall, including a 5 page spread on Les Banlieue de Paris by Robert Doisneau. Small folio, 100pp., photo illustrations, advertisements, original illustrated wraps. Near VG, some fraying of spine. (a80225)
$150.00Hautecoeur, Jules (publisher) Photography. PARIS - PANORAMA DE PARIS c. 1888 - ALBUM OF 50 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS
Large album of 50 original what appear to be albumen photographs of Paris mounted one per stiff heavy panel. No date given but from clothing and transportation shown indicates c. 1888. All photos present and all are titled in French on the board beneath each photo. Album is 14-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches (38 x 27 cm). Photographs are 10-3/4 x 8 inches (27 x 20.5 cm). Photographer not given. No titles appear etched in images themselves. All views indentified (in French) above and beneath images. Most of the photos are VG or better, several are lightly faded. Nice detail. Many street scenes --Rue de Rivoli, L'Avenue de l'Opera, Place de la Republique,etc; gardens; monuments, architecture; landscape; Versailles; Trianon. All edges bright gilt; Binding solid, no pages detached. "Jules Hautecoeur 172 Rue de Rivoli" is printed in gilt on front under a large fancifully printed "Paris". Hautecoeur worked as a publisher in France from 1885-1899. Good, leather spine is frayed on ends and album cover is somewhat worn and soiled. Scarce. (a87566)
$995.00 Schotte, Siri . SOUVENIR DE PARIS 1898 A LILLIE BIRMINGHAM DE VOTRE DEVOUEE AMIE SIRI SCHOTTE - ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM OF 23 PHOTOGRAPHS
1898. Album 7 x 6 inches with windows in each leaf for insertion of one photograph on each side of page. Photographs are 4 x 5 inches and presumably were taken by Miss Schotte. Her neat red ink titles appear below each photo. One photograph is missing from its place - 23 remain. Photographs are faded, mostly street scenes. (a87580)
$125.00