Paris: Librairie des Arts Décoratifs, A. Calavas Éditeur, [n.d., ca. 1929]. French issue of Urformen der Kunst [1928]. The French issue of Blossfeldt's masterpiece in the scarce photographically illustrated dust jacket. A remarkable book that traces a curious path from Art Nouveau to Modernism and foreshadows Conceptual Art. In exceptionally..... Read More about La Plante …d'après des détails très aggrandis de formes végetales. Introduction de Charles...

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

Lawrence, MA: 1935 (Printed c. 1998). Number 15 of 250 prints. Bourke-White's striking image of man and machine, reminiscent of her earlier work in the Soviet Union, was published in a FORTUNE story on the Lawrence, Massachusetts textile industry. Read More about American Wollen Co

[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 views"..... 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 region..... Read More about Tibetan natives [pencil caption

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’ in..... 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

Inscription reads "To Alfred Eisenstaedt-with appreciation, Pearl S. Buck. October 18, 1956." Read More about Autograph Note Signed to Alfred Eisenstaedt, October 18, 1956

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1963. First edition. INSCRIBED TO HIS PUBLISHER. Inscribed to his publisher, "Dear Nelson I don't know if you know what a wonderful feeling it is when someone has enough confidence in your work to print it. Thank you for giving me that..... Read More about I Wonder Why

London: A.W. Bennett, 1868. With original photographs of Staffa (at p. 113), Burns's Cottage, Banks of Doon, Falls of Moness, View on the Devon, Pass of Glencoe, Loch Coruisk & Bruces Landing, etc.Selection of the verse of Burns and Campbell, and miscellaneous atmospheric pieces by other authors. Read More about Scotland: Her Songs and Scenery, as sung by Her Bards, and seen in the Camera

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904-1922. Autograph edition, no. 266 of 750 copies, signed by the author and publisher, with EACH VOLUME SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. THE ULTIMATE SET. WITH MANUSCRIPT. Complete in 23 volumes with an extra volume 19 with inlaid manuscripts for "The Hungry Sheep," c. 24 pages in pencil..... Read More about The Writings of …

Sacramento, California: US Dept of Interior, March 3, 1947. Copy No. 5-M. 34 Photographs. Read More about "A Report on the Development of a Land Management Plan for the Shasta Reservoir Lands under...