Couverture reliée et toilée bleue.D'éditeur à jaquette illustrée coul. The Richard and Ronay Menschel Library at Georges Eastman House,Rochester.
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Vendeur : Browsing Is Arousing, Middlebury, VT, Etats-Unis
Etat : Very Good. Hardcover, 288 pages. Imagining Paradise is the first book to showcase the treasures of The George Eastman House's incomparable Richard and Ronay Menschel Library. It features over 250 rare books, each beautifully illustrated here and accompanied by commentary from prominent scholars. A large and handsome volume itself, as befits its subject, it ranges over the history of the medium of photography, its practitioners and its processes -- from bucolic landscapes, to travel and exploration, science and medicine, the literary and the illustrious. It encompasses the incunabula of William Henry Fox Talbot through the reveries of Maxime Du Camp and Francis Frith; the vision of Peter Henry Emerson to Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Work and 291; and the exceptional published and unpublished books by Alvin Langdon Coburn. It documents works illustrated with tipped-in original salt prints, albumen prints, platinum prints, photogravures, carbon prints, collotypes and Woodburytypes. It includes translations in five languages of Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre's seminal instructional manual describing the daguerreotype process and works of great and unusual beauty, such as a red leather, bronze-trimmed Bible, illustrated in the 1860s with 56 photographs by Francis Frith. No other library in the world holds this breadth and depth of the history, aesthetics and technology of photography and no other book can bring them so thoroughly into the reader's hands. This exceptional collection of rare books was formed from the Eastman Historical Photographic Collection of the Kodak Company, which encompassed the collections of many of the most important photographic scientists, historians and collectors in the world. Due to size and weight, This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing. Record # 362032. N° de réf. du vendeur 362032
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Vendeur : Emile Kerssemakers ILAB, Heerlen, Pays-Bas
Cloth, with dust jacket. 287 pages. Text in English. As new, with minimal signs of use to the dust jacket. Imagining Paradise is the first book to showcase the treasures of The George Eastman House's incomparable Richard and Ronay Menschel Library. It features over 250 rare books, each beautifully illustrated here and accompanied by commentary from prominent scholars. A large and handsome volume itself, as befits its subject, it ranges over the history of the medium of photography, its practitioners and its processes--from bucolic landscapes, to travel and exploration, science and medicine, the literary and the illustrious. It encompasses the incunabula of William Henry Fox Talbot through the reveries of Maxime Du Camp and Francis Frith; the vision of Peter Henry Emerson to Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Work and 291; and the exceptional published and unpublished books by Alvin Langdon Coburn. It documents works illustrated with tipped-in original salt prints, albumen prints, platinum prints, photogravures, carbon prints, collotypes and Woodburytypes. It includes translations in five languages of Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre's seminal instructional manual describing the daguerreotype process and works of great and unusual beauty, such as a red leather, bronze-trimmed Bible, illustrated in the 1860s with 56 photographs by Francis Frith. No other library in the world holds this breadth and depth of the history, aesthetics and technology of photography and no other book can bring them so thoroughly into the reader's hands. This exceptional collection of rare books was formed from the Eastman Historical Photographic Collection of the Kodak Company, which encompassed the collections of many of the most important photographic scientists, historians and collectors in the world. 777g. N° de réf. du vendeur 95302
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Vendeur : Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA, Decatur, GA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. 283pp+ index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. N° de réf. du vendeur 62778
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Vendeur : Pallas Books Antiquarian Booksellers, Leiden, Pays-Bas
cloth, dustjacket, large 4to 288 pp., ca. 600 ills. about the collection of photobooks in the richard and Ronay Menschel Library;; selection of 250 books on photographic history; LIKE NEW condition. N° de réf. du vendeur 25937
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Vendeur : Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, Etats-Unis
First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 287 pages. Includes numerous color illustrations of this important collection. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. An as new copy and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. A terrific reference. Please note that this is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. N° de réf. du vendeur 206078
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Vendeur : Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Color pictorial DJ; blue cloth, parchment-like paper title blocks laid on spine & front cover, 288 pp., many color illus. "The first book to showcase the treasures held within the Richard and Ronay Menchel Library at George Eastman House, renowned for its colleciton of books on photographic history. More than two hundred and fifty rare books have been carefully selected to reflect the incomparable strength and depth of this remarkable library, unparalleled in the world. Each work is richly illustrated and accompanied by commentary written by prominent scholars with particular specialties in the field of photographic history." -- DJ. Much to see here, both in terms of the history of printing and of photography. VG (Light edgewear to textblock and boards; interior is in excellent condition.). N° de réf. du vendeur 200493
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Vendeur : Antiquariaat Schot, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Pays-Bas
Original publisher's blue cloth hardback, lettering on label spine and frontcover, pictorial dustjacket, large 4to: frontispiece portrait, 288pp., hundreds of photographs in books and bookcovers, list of photographs, biographical notes contributors, list of titles featured, index. Very fine copy - as new. 250 Books on Photographic History. N° de réf. du vendeur 140661
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Vendeur : Studio Books, Corvallis, OR, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Fine copy, as new in publisher's shrink wrap. Heavy book, extra charge for overseas shipping. Please inquire before ordering. No extra charge for media mail shipping in US. N° de réf. du vendeur 089136
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Vendeur : Emile Kerssemakers ILAB, Heerlen, Pays-Bas
2007, 287pp, Illustrated. Cloth with dustjacket. 32x28cm. 2,3kg. In very good condition. N° de réf. du vendeur 64645
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Vendeur : Harmonium Books, Philadelphia, PA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : As New. Large hardback w/ jacket; unmarked; no bent/torn pp.; jacket fine. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1616468180096
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