CHRISTIE'S, 19th Century Topographical & Historical Photographs, Londen 2 december 1998. Soft cover 21 x 27 cm. 83 pag. with 355 lots and 180 photo's. CONTENT: Very interesting catalogue with a number of Western and non-Western photo's and photo albums. Nearly all the famous photographers(they are indexed) of that period are represented. Contains also the Madagascar photography 1853-1865 of William Ellis(short biography, 10 lots, 9 photographs). Lots 218-227 Lots 240 to 355 are topographical photo's most non-European
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TALLMADGE & JACKSON, A Grand Tour of Asia 1910, Berkeley 2006. Hardcover (oblong) 18 x 26 cm. 176 p met ca. 150 kleurenfoto's. "This peculiar album of photographs taken in 1910 on a four-month tour of the Far East by a wandering American businessman is narrated by a mysterious companion. An exquisite facsimile edition of the album includes more than 150 historical images, their hand-tinted colors authentic and un-retouched."
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Pokorska, B., Podroz na Wschod [A Journey to the East], Warsaw 2007. Softcover booklet 16 x 24 cm. 16 pag. with 16 photo's. Text in Polish. One page summary in English. Photo's from the collection of Zygmunt Wielowiejski. Of the 16 photo's made around 1880-1890. Seven are old photo's of Asia[ China:2//Japan4//India 1//Ceylon 1. In the middle of the booklet a two-page full colour photo of the Fuji (1880-1890)
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PEZZATI,A., Adventures in Photography Expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, Philedelphia 2002.Hardcover 18,5 x 26 cm. 100 pag. met 64 zwart-wit foto's. CONTENT:
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Todorovová Jiřina, Chovaneček Jan, Around the world. Josef Kořenský’s travel photography collection at the Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American cultures, Prague 2011. Soft cover 23 x 16 cm. 140 pages.Text in Czech, 12 page summary in English. With CDROM. "The book is a monography of a long and fruitful life and various activities of a Czech educationalist, naturalist, writer, collector and and traveller Josef Kořenský (1847 – 1938). It comes with a catalogue with a detailed description of the photograps, brought by Kořenský from his travels – from his round the world trip, conducted in 1893 – 1894 and from his so called travel to the antipodes (1900 – 1901). These photographs come in a large format on cardboard (some of them are coloured) and are stored at the Náprstek museum, at the department of ethnography and in the Náprstek Museum Library. The book comes with an enclosed copy of a CD with an interactive catalogue of photograps."
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BONHAM catalogus, Printed books, Maps & Photographs, Londen 2013. Veilingcatalogus 30 April 2013[20688]. Softcover 26,5 x 21 cm. 99 pag. CONTENT: 580 lots Lots 175-229 Photographs
and photographs of Tibet, Sth. America[Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay], Australia, Sth. Africa, Tunis & Europe.
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BONHAMS, Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Historical Photographs[03/2013], London 2013. Auction catalogue March19, 2013. Soft cover 26,5 x 21 cm. 167 pages with 235 lots. Lots 97-113 early photography. Important lots: LOT 97 BEATO (FELICE) An album of architectural views in India, comprising Lucknow, Delhi, Agra and Benares, 38 albumen silver prints (most numbered in the negative as per footnote), 6 small (typically 100 x 76mm.) salted paper print portraits of unidentified male sitters, views mounted one per page (recto only), captioned in pencil on the mounts, images approximately 252 x 280mm., early maroon morocco gilt, lettered "Benares, Lucknow, Agra, Delhi" on upper cover, g.e., oblong folio, [c.1858] Sold for £31,250 inc. premium Footnotes A FINE ALBUM DOCUMENTING THE AFTERMATH OF THE INDIAN MUTINY, AND IMPORTANT ARCHITECTURAL SITES IN NORTHERN INDIA. It is thought that Beato (1832-1909), a Briton of Italian heritage, may have been commissioned by the War Office in London to document the architectural damage caused to Lucknow after the Indian Mutiny. He was in Lucknow during the March and April of 1858, just weeks after its capture by the British under the command of Sir Colin Campbell. Comprising: 'Sacred Temple of Benares from the River side' (B2); 'Buddhist Temple', the Dhamekh Stupa, Sarnath (to the north east of Benares) (B3); 'Sacred well, Benares' (B6); 'The Martinere Bra--? Sikhs - Lucknow', with armed Sikh soliders in the foreground (L6); one of Beato's most well known images of the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny, the Secundra Bagh 'after the slaughter of 2000 rebels' (as caption in the mount) by the 93rd Higlanders and 4th Punjab Regiment (L13); 'The Motee Mahal - First attack of Sir Colin Campbell Nov. 1857', Lucknow (L19); 'Small mosque in Kaiserbagh' (L24); 'The tomb of Saadat Ali in Kaiserbagh Palace' (L25); 'Asfi Mosque inside the Imambara of Asaf-ud-daula, Lucknow' (L47); 'The Hosainabad Emambara [and] Tomb of Mohamed Ali Khan' (L55); '[The] Summa Musjid Gate' (L56); 'The Taj from the East' (A2); 'Entrance view of the Taj' (A6); 'The Taj from the Fountains' (A7); 'Gateway of the Taj' (A10); 'The Gateway of the Taj' (A11); 'Delhi Gate of Agra Fort' (A12); 'Marble Palace in Fort Agra' (A14); 'Tomb of [I'timad]-ud-Doulah' (A16); 'Akbar's Tomb at Secundra near Agra;' 'Gateway of Akbar's Tomb, Secundra' (A20); another view of "Tomb of [I'timad]-ud-Doulah;' 'Summum Bourg in the Fort Agra' (A24); 'Bridge of Boats over the Jumna, Taken from Lulim Ghur' (D1); 'Hindoo Rao's House' (D5); 'Cashmere Gate' (D22); 'Lahore Gate of the Palace;' 'Jumna Musjid;' 'Jain Temple;' 'View on the Chandee Chowk' (D40); 'Tomb of the Emperor Hoomaoon, where Major Hodson captured the King' (D42); 'Old Gateway near Delhi' (D43); 'Kootub [Minar]', (two sheets joined); 'Arch in Kootub' a portrait oriented view showing the central arch of the Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque, south of Delhi, also known as the 'Great Arch' (D4?); another view, landscape oriented, of 'Arch in Kootub;' 'Interior of the Hindoo Temple at Kootub' showing the colonnade that comprises the east side of the Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque (D50); 'Exterior of the Hindoo Temple in Kootub,' and 'Tomb in Kootub' (D56). LOT 104 DE LA GRANGE (ALEXIS) An album of 49 architectural views of major sites in India, most of which are mughal, albumen prints from paper negatives, mounted one per page on recto only, captioned in a contemporary French hand on the mounts, presumably that of the photographer, images typically 180 x 218mm. or slightly smaller, bookplate of Le Mis. De Champagné-Giffart, red morocco, "Photographies de l'inde Anglaise" in gilt on upper cover, rubbed, oblong folio (315 x 355mm.), [c.1849-1850] Sold for £63,650 inc. premium Footnotes A VERY FINE RECENTLY DISCOVERED ALBUM OF SOME OF THE EARLIEST KNOWN PHOTOGRAPHS OF INDIA. Born to an aristocratic French family in 1825 (the son of an army colonel, Baron Prosper Amauri Louis, who was an officer of the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), de la Grange studied in Paris before serving in the naval artillery from 1844 to 1847. In 1849, and following military service, he embarked upon a two year trip to India, Ceylon, Java, Malaysia and Singapore. He travelled with his statesman cousin, Felix Lambrecht, who detailed the trip in his book Souvenirs (1873). De la Grange's superb images predate those taken during the British government's photographic surveys, and those by the acknowledged early masters of travel photography, such as Tripe, Biggs, Pigou and Neill. De la Grange apparently took his photographs, less than 70 of which are known to have survived, for his own pleasure rather than a specific commission, but he was seemingly connected with some of the pioneers in the medium, having taught Maxine du Camp his techniques. In 1851 de la Grange returned to France where he is known to have assembled two albums, both entitled "Photographies de l'inde Anglaise". One, containing 61 images and manuscript notes by the photographer, was dedicated to the politician and historian Adolphe Thiers, a friend of Felix Lambrecht. The second album, now at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, contains 48 images. The present previously unrecorded album, presumably given to the Marquis Champagné-Giffart, is therefore a significant addition. Five of de la Grange's photographs were included in Blanquart-Evrard's first published collection of photographs, L'Album photographique de l'artiste et de l'amateur in 1851, but no further photographs can be attributed to him after this date. After his return to Europe he entered politics, before retiring to his chateau in Seborg. He died in February 1917. Images include: Benares: an English hotel bungalow, captioned 'specimen du habitation anglaise au Bengale' in the neo-classical style (4); Mirzapur: a temple (1); 'Palais de Dig' (1); Fatehpur Sikri: the Grand Mosque and tombs (3); Agra: the marble pavilion of Shah Jehan, the entry gate to the Taj, a general view of the Taj, a detail of the Taj, the Taj mosque and three views of Emperor Akbar's tomb (8); Sikandra: a view of the gate to the garden of Akbar's tomb, another view of the entrance to the garden, two general views of the tomb, and the entrance to the tomb itself (5); Delhi: the Grand Mosque, two views of a tomb, a view of the Tomb of Humayun, Qutb Minar, and a view of the ruins of Quwwat-ul-Islam (Qutb Mosque) (7); Lucknow: two general views, and a view of the Grand Mosque (3); Ajmer: the entrance to the Fort, and detail views of two houses (3): ?Oudjin: the pavillion of a palace, presumed to be the Red Palace at Jaipur, a detail of this palace, a house, and a view of a Muslim cemetery (4); Udaipur: the palace, and three views of a Hindu temple (4); Chittor: three view of a Hindu temple (3); Mundleysir: a Hindu temple (1); Adjunta: a view of the exterior of the Chaitya Cave (1); Ellora: two views of the caves (2). Provenance: Champagné-Giffart (bookplate); Henri Pierre Briere (1897-1990), and thence by descent to the current owner.
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CHRISTIE'S catalogue(sale 2362), Travel, Science and Natural History, Londen(29 september) 2011. Softcover 21 x 26,5 cm. 148 pages with 407 lots. Early Photography:
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SCHINDLBECK, M., Die ethnographische Linse Photographien aus dem Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin, Berlin 1989. Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Völkerkunde Berlin Neue Folge 48. Soft cover 28 x 23 cm. 149 pages with 160 photographs.
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HÜRLIMANN, M., Die Wunder Asiens. Ein Bilderwerk vom Grössten Erdteil, Berlin 1931. Hard cover 28 x 34,5 cm[oblong] 240 pages with around 200 photographs. Text in German. Sligthly hinges. Fair copy. ![]()
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SHAPERO GALLERY(Roland Belgrave), Early Travel photography 1850-1950, Londen 2009. Soft cover 17 x 23 cm . 140 pag. with 170 photo's. CONTENT: Photographs mostly on Asia and especially the Indian subcontinent.
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DI SIERA, D, Antonio Beato, Felice Beato e Adolfo Farsari. Fotografi veneti attraverso L'Oriente del'ottocento, Padova 2011(ISBN: 9788888997827). Soft cover 26 x 21 cm. 158 pages with 95 photographs. Text in Italian, introduction text also in English.
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SHAPERO GALLERY(Roland Belgrave), Exposing Asia Travel and Photography in the Nineteenth Century, Londen 2009. Soft cover 15 x 21 cm . 93 pag. with 247 photo's.
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De DEUS RAMOS, J., Extremos Orientes 1877 / The Far East 1877, Lissabon 2002. Hard cover 21,5 x 29,5 cm[oblong], 82 pag. with 59 full page photo’s of China[42], Taiwan[5] and Japan[12]. Three maps that show where the photographs have been taken. Text in Portuguese and English. The photo collection of Francisco Gil Borje e Meneses. ![]() ![]()
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LACOSTE, A., FELICE BEATO A Photographer of the Eastern Road, Los Angeles 2010. Hard cover 27 x 29 cm. 202 pag. with 120 full page photo's. CONTENT: In recent years Felice Beato (1832-1909) has come to be recognized as one of the major photographers of the nineteenth century, yet until now there has been no general survey of his singular life and work. Born in Venice, Italy, Beato came of age in the Ottoman capital of Constantinople. As a young apprentice in 1856, he photographed the sites of the Crimean War, thereby launching a long and remarkably adventurous career. Over the next half century he would follow in the wake of the British Empire: Egypt, Palestine, and Syria; India, where he photographed the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny; and China, where he chronicled the Second Opium War. He spent some thirty years in Japan and Burma, where he was among the first commercial photographers at the time that these countries were starting to open to the West. This abundantly illustrated book accompanies an exhibition-the first devoted to Beato's entire oeuvre-on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from December 7, 2010, to April 3, 2011. The text includes as main chapters:
There is a selection of his photographs, including panoramas and hand-coloured Japanese studies, along with captivating period ephemera, lithographs based on his work, and humorous caricatures of the artist."
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PÉREZ GONZALÉS, C., From Istanbul to Yokohama / Von Istanbul bis Yokohama. The Camera meets Asia 1839-1900, Köln 2014(publisher: Walter König Verlag // ISBN: 978-3-86335-562-3) Soft cover 32 x 24,5 cm. 301 pages 350 photographs. Text both in German and English “Als 1913 das Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst (MOK) in Köln zum ersten Mal für Besucher öffnete, lautete die Botschaft der Museumsgründer Adolf und Frieda Fischer: Kunst aus Asien ist unserer ebenbürtig. Mehr noch: Es gibt so etwas wie eine "Weltkunst"; an die ein und dieselben Maßstäbe angelegt werden können. 100 Jahre später präsentiert das Museum erstmalig eine handverlesene Auswahl historischer Fotografien, die Asien in den Jahren 1839-1900 zeigen. “
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M. Ferenczy & Kincses Károly, Mandarin Ösvérháton[Mandarin on a mule] Hopp Ferenc Fényképei, Hungary 1999. Softcover 20 x 23 cm. 156 pag. with 137 sepia coloured photo's. Text Hungarian, photo captions and short introduction also in English.
With regard to old Asian photography the catalogue contains 29 photo's of Asia nearly all made in 1903: China[3]: no.'s 31, 124, 126, Siam[1]: no.56, Japan[9]: no.'s 59, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111 Korea [10]: no's 112, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 120, 121, 122, 123, Rest of Asia[6]: no's 96, 98, 99, 100, 132, 133
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FABIAN, R. & ADAM, H-C, Masters of Early Travel Photography, Londen 1983(Thames and Hudson Ltd / ISBN 9780500540985). Hard cover 31,5 x 23,5 352 pages with 250 photographsof which 177 in colour. " First published in Germany under the title "Fruhe Reisen mit der Kamera" in 1981. Chapters: "The Birth of Photography, Niepce, Daguerre, and Tallbot," "Egypt: Lion-hearted Journeys to the Temples of the Nile, Francis Frith and Maxime Du Camp," "Greenland: A Cheerful Outing Among the Icebergs, Dunmore and Critcherson," "Japan: Photographing the 'Gate to the Sun', Kusakabe Kimbei, Felice Beato, and Baron Stillfried," "Brazil: Imperial Photographer of the Amazon, Dom Pedro II and Marc Ferrez," "India: The 'Brave Photographic Warriors' of the British Empire, Samuel Bourne and Deen Dayal," "China: An Ancient Culture Caught Forever, John Thomson," "The American West: Pioneering with Colt and Camera, William H. Jackson, Carleton Watkins, and Eadweard Muybridge," and "The World in Color: Record It While It Lasts, Albert Kahn and Burton Holmes. With biographies, bibliography. Reproductions true to the original prints, with sepia, black-and-white, hand-colored, early color processes."
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Fotografie novináře V.Mussika ve sbírce NpM / Photo journalist V.Mussika collection NPM CDROM "Journalist and photographer Viktor Mussik (1899–1952) travelled to many Asian and African countries in the 1920s and 1930s. His photographs are a typical example of documentary photojournalism – they have no artistic ambitions, but capture a particular state of affairs at a particular moment in time in a particular country. Given the period in which they were created, and Viktor Mussik‘s great talent for observation, his photos are among the best collections in the National Museum – Naprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures. After the Second World War Mussik was accused of collaborating with the German occupiers, and although he was later rehabilitated, he was unable to continue working as a journalist." ![]()
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BELGRAVE, R., Pioneers of Photography II . Early Travel and exploration, Brighton 2012. Sales catalogue. Soft cover 21 x 21 cm. 130 pag. with 115 photo’s mainly Asia.
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