[Bermuda: Published by the Bermuda Trade Development Board], 1936. First edition, no. 1391 of 2000 numbered copies. Designed and produced by James Albert Wales and Lorraine Follett. Printed in the U.S.A. by Edward Stern & Company, Inc. Philadelphia. “Our remoteness from the rest of the world is a wholesome and..... Read More about Residence in Bermuda. [Preface by Hervey Allen

Jacksonville, Florida: nd. c. 1980s. Likely produced with the intention of publication (or perhaps published in a very small edition in this form, though we find no records of it on institutional databases), this is an extraordinary array of game trophies. From his obituary: "Mr. Cavert would say that his..... Read More about Big Game Trophy Collection of Tillman Cavert Jr. (1916-2013) Jacksonville Florida [cover title

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. First Edition. A Novel Switch in Photography. A Washington political novel developed from an oral accompaniment to an exhibition of photographs taken by the narrator. Real-life subjects include Pres. Cleveland and Pres. McKinley, etc. Read More about A Capital Courtship

London: A. Zwemmer, Charing Cross Road, 1929. First UK edition and first edition in English. Read More about Art Forms in Nature. Examples from the plant world photographed direct from Nature

US Steel Chief Blough Praises Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. Roger Blough became Chairman and CEO of US Steel, then the world's largest steel company, at the age of 48, when this was still a plum job of US industry. Here, he thanks Eisenstaedt for “A pleasant hour with an unusually effective..... Read More about Autograph Note Signed, n.p., n.d

[Paris: Bison Ainé with stamp of Mon. Alph. Giroux below, n.d. ca. 1867]. [Marie] Rosa[lie] Bonheur (1822-99) known best for her pictures of animals. Read More about Carte de visite showing Bonheur leaning on a chair with hand on hip

[New York: March 24, 1938]. Van Vechten, Carl. Reproduced in Mauriber's PORTRAITS (1978). Read More about Portrait photograph of Margaret Bourke-White

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942. Bourke-White, Margaret. First Edition, review copy with folio letter from The Inner Sanctum of S & S Pub, date June 29, 1942. Read More about Shooting the Russian War. Written and Photographed by …

[Darjeeling: 1869]. Bourne cat. # 1904. Four upper-class Booteas, Tibetan-speaking inhabitants of Nepal. British-born Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) photographed the landscape and architecture of India and the Himalayan region from 1863-1870. "[R]ecognized as an important landscape photographer, Bourne entered a partnership with Charles Shepherd" and "became a leading supplier of Indian..... Read More about “Group of Booteas” [pencil caption

[Tibet: ca. 1865]. Bourne cat. # 1132B. A striking group portrait of six Tibetans, including a seated priest reading and fingering prayer beads and a woman, with her back to the camera, displaying an elaborate headdress. British-born Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) photographed the landscape and architecture of India and the Himalayan..... Read More about Tibetan natives [pencil caption

New York: M.B. Brady, F. d’Avignon, C. Edwards Lester, 1850. First edition. A complete example of this famous and rare book, a series of remarkable and compelling lithographic portraits after daguerreotypes by Mathew B. Brady (c.1823-1896, photographer). Although advertised as being complete in twenty-four lithographed portraits after Brady’s daguerreotypes, only..... Read More about The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, containing the portraits and biographical sketches of...

Washington, D.C: 26 October 1956. Short note following a photo session in early October for Life Magazine. Brennan, appointed to the Supreme Court by Eisenhower, was famed for his dissent from many of the majority decisions of the court. Reading in part “I certainly did not idly record ‘great artist’..... Read More about Typed Letter, Signed, to LIFE photographer ALFRED EISENSTAEDT

ca. 1910s. A ?previously unknown photo-montage of Rupert Brooke. Read More about Montage photograph of Rupert Brooke