“A PATTERN TO STIR UP ALL HEROIC AND ACTIVE SPIRITS”
[CROUCH, Nathaniel]. The English Hero. London, 1762.
Later edition of this popular and influential biography of Sir Francis Drake, illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of the sea captain, in contemporary calf boards. $1800.
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“PASSIONATELY IMBUED WITH THE SPIRIT OF JOURNALISM”
DASENT, Arthur Irwin. John Thadeus Delane. London, 1908. Two volumes.
First edition of this biography and collected correspondence of one of the Victorian era’s most influential newspaper editors, illustrated with six plates, handsomely bound by Morrell. $600.
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“THE IRREVOCABLE LINK BETWEEN TECHNIQUE AND THE MEANING
OF IMAGES”
LÉCUYER, Raymond. Histoire de la photographie. Paris, 1945.
First edition of this definitive French history, describing in extraordinary visual detail photography’s earliest developments through to its revolutionary impact on space exploration, with a rich history of printing methods and innovators such as Niépce and Muybridge, and a survey of artistic, scientific and journalistic highlights, featuring hundreds of black-and-white and color illustrations, including an original 1932 8-1/2 by 12 inch print, a full-page framed image of a calotype negative and its positive print, and the volume’s original “lorgnon bicolore” for viewing several three-dimensional images within. $400.
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