Bauman Rare Books Early 2020 Online Catalogue

S C I E N C E & M E D I C I N E B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S • E A R L Y 2 0 2 0 O N L I N E 179 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) “The Search For Greatness Of Spirit” (Yousuf Karsh) KARSH, Yousuf. Healers of Our Age. Photography and Commentary. Boston, 1976. Folio (13-1/2 by 18 inches), eight-page booklet and 12 vintage gelatin silver prints, loose as issued, clamshell box. $1850. View on Website Signed limited first edition of this folio collection of stellar portraiture by Karsh, one of only 590 copies, inscribed: “To: Catherine G. Curran with the best wishes of Yousef Karsh 1980,” with 12 vintage gelatin silver prints of portraiture by Karsh, featuring eminent figures such as Albert Schweitzer, Albert Einstein, Carl Jung and Helen Keller. Renowned photographer and portraitist Yousuf Karsh once wrote that his lifelong “fascination with scientists may well stem from my original desire to be a physician. Therefore, it has been especially meaningful to me to portray those men and women who are devoted to the art of healing” ( Karsh , 140). This exceptional signed limited folio first edition brings together 12 vintage gelatin silver prints of leading physicians, scientists and healers “of the spirit”—an assemblage of exhibition-size prints that features some of Karsh’s finest work, including his portraits of Einstein, Helen Keller, Albert Schweitzer, Jung, Sir Alexander Fleming and others. See Karsh 144-145. Inscribed to Catherine G. Curran, an active New York patron of the arts, including ballet and photography. Original clamshell box with minor splits at spine foot, slight soiling, light rubbing to spine and corners. Prints and text booklet fine.