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Three Fine Large 19th Century Photographs of Rome
lot 101 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
albumen prints mounted on thin card, c.1870-1880, the Temple of Fortuna, image 28.5cm x38cm; the Arch of Constantine 30cm x 41cm; the Pantheon 31cm x ... read more
Sold for £136 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
An Early Albumen Print, Indochina
lot 102 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
image of a young woman and a boy, c.1865, Indochina (possibly Java), image 21.5cm x 17.5cm, mounted on card with photograph corners
Sold for £74 Result plus buyers premium More details 1
lot 103 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
Anonymous, gelatin silver print, early 20th century, posed with ball-headed war club, mounted on card,18.3cm x 14cm
Estimated at £100 - £150 More details 1
lot 104 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
a group of vintage gelatin silver prints of Brazil, c.1910-1920, all numbered and titled in the negative, all 16.4cm x 22cm
Estimated at £100 - £150 More details 9
JAN VAN HOEPEN (1866-1922), M BENNETT, Boer War Photographs
lot 105 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
Four vintage gelatin silver prints c.1900, van Hoepen of Pretoria, Boer soldiers after the victory at Spion Kop, 1900; with three British photographs ... read more
Estimated at £100 - £150 More details 4
SKEEN & Co., A Ceylonese Woman
lot 106 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
a large portrait of a young Sri Lankan Woman, antique albumen print, signed and numbered in the negative, image 27.8cm x 21cm, mounted on card
Sold for £74 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
lot 107 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
an antique Orientalist albumen print of a North African woman, c.1880, possibly Moroccan, numbered 1228 in the negative, 25.5cm x18.5cm, unmounted
Estimated at £100 - £150 More details 1
HING-QUA JOHN and Others, Three Cartes de Visite
lot 108 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
all c.1865, two Chinese CdV's, one with photographer's wet stamp verso 'Ing-Qua John & Co. Photographic Artist, 84 Praya, Hong Kong, one CdV ... read more
Sold for £236 Result plus buyers premium More details 7
An Album of Holy Land Photographs
lot 109 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
22 small photographs, c.1920, mainly scenes in and around Jerusalem, 13 amateur with titles on the album page and nine professional photographs ... read more
Estimated at £100 - £150 More details 14
ALFRED BURTON (att.)(1834-1914), A Fijian Dolmen
lot 110 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
antique albumen print, c.1880, a large standing stone structure on Fiji, image 20cm x 14.5cm, mounted on thin card
Estimated at £100 - £150 More details 1
ELIZABETH PULMAN (1836-1900), A Maori Chief
lot 111 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
a New Zealand albumen print, c.1880, mounted as a cabinet card, signed and numbered and titled in the negative 'Pulman Photo' and '46, Heta Te Haara, ... read more
Sold for £471 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
19th Century Photographs of Fiji
lot 112 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
a group of seven albumen prints, c.1880, tribal ethnographic studies, six mounted as cabinet cards with later captions verso, one unmounted, all ... read more
Sold for £310 Result plus buyers premium More details 17
LT B T SOMERVILLE Photographs from the Solomon Islands Survey Party
lot 113 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
a collection of 17 albumen prints, c.1894-1894, photographed by Lt Somerville during the work of the survey ship The Penguin in 1893, 12 mounted as ... read more
Estimated at £800 - £1,200 More details 29
JOHN WATT BEATTIE (1859-1930) Photographs of Tonga
lot 114 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
three late albumen prints, c.1890-1900, each mounted on card and numbered in the negative, with wetstamp verso 'Printed by J.W. Beattie, Hobart' and ... read more
Estimated at £100 - £150 More details 6
Three 19th Century Photographs, Ethnographic Studies
lot 115 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
three Solomen Islands Chiefs, a Tongan with his canoe, and a third (unidentified), all mounted as cabinet cards, images 14cm x 10cm
Sold for £149 Result plus buyers premium More details 5
Photographs, 19th century ethnographic CdV's
lot 116 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
ALLAN HUGHAM of Noumea (1834-1883) Indigene de la Nouvelle Caledonie (Grand Terre, Oceania), carte de visite, additional annotation in pencil verso; ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 5
A Whole Plate Autochrome and Eight Smaller
lot 117 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
all c.1910-1920, whole plate of a woodland path, 24cm x 18cm, with seven quarter--plate scenes, Belgium, France and the Alps, 8.2cm x 10.8cm, and one ... read more
Estimated at £180 - £220 More details 4
Nine Autochromes of Butterflies
lot 118 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
quarter-plate autochromes of butterflies, c.1920, preserved specimens, some set against naturalistic settings, all plates 8.2cm x 10.8cm
Sold for £149 Result plus buyers premium More details 4
ARTHUR E MORTON (1865-1932), A Collection of Paget Colour Transparencies
lot 119 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
37 Paget colour glass plate transparencies, c.1913-1920, all 8.2cm x 10.7 cm, village scenes, thatched cottages etc, all but 6 with Morton's label, ... read more
Estimated at £500 - £800 More details 6
21 Autochromes of Butterflies and Moths
lot 120 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
c. 1920, images of preserved specimens, most labelled, all 8.2cm sq (standard magic lantern size 3 1/4")
Estimated at £200 - £300 More details 4
ARTHUR E MORTON (1865-1932) A Collection of Colour Paget Transparencies
lot 121 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
21 Paget glass plate lantern slides, all 8.2cm square (magic lantern standard 3 1/4 inches) all of villages and village scenes, including canals, a ... read more
Estimated at £220 - £280 More details 4
ARTHUR E MORTON (1865-1932), Two Half-Plate Autochromes
lot 122 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
two large autochrome colour photographs, c. 1913, one of Otford Church, Kent, dated 1913, one of Eynsford, Kent, both labelled 'Autochrome by Arthur ... read more
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R H BEAVAN, Two Half-Plate Paget Colour Transparencies
lot 123 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
c. 1913, one Knole Park Sevenoaks, one Otford Church, Kent, both signed R H Beavan, each 16.5cm x 12c. Note: R H Beavan was chairman of the Chester ... read more
Estimated at £100 - £150 More details 2
OLIVE EDIS (1876-1955), Sir Charles Tomes, A Full-Plate Autochrome
lot 124 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
unusually large autochrome by Edis, a society photographer specialising in colour, titled 'Sir Charles Tomes in white on the black edge tape, the ... read more
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RANDOLPH BEZZANT HOLMES (1888-1973) Bromoil, with Experimental Colour Painted Photographs
lot 125 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
10 photographs, all early 20th century, Randolph Bezzant Holmes, bromoil, the India-Afgan frontier; others illustrating different techniques of hand ... read more
Sold for £372 Result plus buyers premium More details 13
JOSEF VETROVSKY (1897-1944), Pohyb (Movement))
lot 126 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
photograph of a nude gymnast, vintage toned gelatin silver print, c.1925-1930, the title ' Pohyb' and 'Volankova' (the model) written in a ... read more
Sold for £174 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
JAN SAUDEK (1935-), Double Portrait
lot 127 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
gelatin silver print, c.1980, a couple, the left image with woman nude, the right image with man nude, typically taken in Saudek's basement studio, ... read more
Sold for £260 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
J HAROLD LEIGHTON F.R.P.S. (-1947), Tragedy
lot 128 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
a female nude study, platinum print, c.1925, titles in ink verso, with photograper's name and address and tectnical details, 'platiniotype, 1.5 sec ... read more
Estimated at £100 - £150 More details 4
J RECKNAGEL, A Collection of Stereoview Nudes
lot 129 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
German, c.1899-1900, one or two may be by his brother, S Recknagel, c.1905, 10 high-quality toned gelatin silver print stereoviews in card window ... read more
Estimated at £500 - £800 More details 11
MOHAN JUNEJA, Silent Music No. 11
lot 130 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
nude study, vintage gelatin silver print c.1980, titled, with photographers name and address verso, image 25cm sq., sheet 35.5cm x 28cm
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 2
ARNOLD CLAYTON HENDERSON (1938-), Hands and Legs
lot 131 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
nude study, vintage gelatin silver print, signed and dated verso, 7th September 1969, 11.40am, image 23cm x 21cm, sheet 30cm x 27cm
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 2
PATRICK LICHFIELD (1939-2005), Nude Studies
lot 132 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
nude period costume studies - girl bathing, card game, dancing on table, and hide and seek, Cibachrome prints, each 400mm x 260mm, framed and glazed, ... read more
Estimated at £300 - £500 More details 5
Five Vintage Erotic Photographs
lot 133 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
French, c.1925, a set of five vintage photographs of the same nude model, in studio setting, each a hand-coloured gelatin silver print, with ... read more
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Five Vintage Erotic Photographs
lot 134 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
French, c.1925, a set of five vintage photographs of the same nude model, in studio setting, each a hand-coloured gelatin silver print, with ... read more
Sold for £124 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
A Collection of Magic Lantern Slides, Nude Studies
lot 135 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
eight lantern slides, four Victorian gelatin silver diapositives, c.1890, with a slide showing a selection of ''Etudes pour Peintres et Sculpteurs' ... read more
Sold for £161 Result plus buyers premium More details 1
Four Victorian Photographs, Nude Studies
lot 136 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
c.1890, half-plate matt gelatin silver prints, two numbered in the negative, each 16cm x 11cm, with a half-plate toned gelatin silver portrait of a ... read more
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EUGENE ATGET (1857–1927), Parc de Sceaux
lot 137 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
gelatin silver print, almost certainly a contact print from the glass negative, photograph taken in 1925, printed and mounted later c.1970-77, framed, ... read more
Estimated at £500 - £800 More details 6
KARL BULLA (1855-1929), Portrait of the Photographer's Son
lot 138 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
portrait of Victor Bulla (1883-1938) in conversation with two men, vintage gelatin silver print c.1910, photographer's wetstamp verso, image 11.2cm x ... read more
Estimated at £400 - £600 More details 2
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ (1949-) The Rolling Stones, Philadelphia
lot 139 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
vintage gelatin silver print, photographed 1975, printed 1980's, from the Gordon Parks collection, Toni Parks Collection wetstamp verso, image 23cm x ... read more
Sold for £248 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
VARVARA ALEXANDROVNA RODCHENKO (1925 - 2019), Portrait of Katya
lot 140 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
gelatin silver photogram, 1990, signed, titled and dated in Cyrillic and English verso, image size: 23cm x 18cm, in mount 40cm x 30cm
Estimated at £300 - £500 More details 3
PATRICK LICHFIELD (1939-2005), A Racehorse
lot 141 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
racehorse and jockey, silhouetted on skyline, silver print, signed 'Lichfield' on mount, 230mm x 390mm, framed and glazed, VG
Sold for £149 Result plus buyers premium More details 1
PAUL TANQUERAY (1905-1991), The Torso
lot 142 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
A vintage gelatin silver print, photograph of 'The Torso', a modernist sculpture by Vivian Cole, photographed and printed by Paul Tanqueray c.1935, ... read more
Sold for £124 Result plus buyers premium More details 5
William Burroughs in New York, Vintage Photograph
lot 143 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
vintage toned gelatin silver print, c.1955 20cm x 25cm. Note: There is a widely publicised photograph of Burroughs, a different view from this same ... read more
Sold for £211 Result plus buyers premium More details 1
WWII Red Army Press Photograph, Cossack Volunteers
lot 144 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
vintage gelatin silver print, printed in the USSR, dated October 1942, a whole family volunteers, inclding Zevdodia Zubenko - army cook, and her ... read more
Sold for £372 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
Three 1920s-1940s Press Photographs, Germany
lot 145 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
a vintage gelatin silver printed wirephoto or radio transmitted photograph of allied powers meeting in Berlin on June 5th 1945, Marshall Zhukov, ... read more
Sold for £62 Result plus buyers premium More details 6
PAUL POPPER ARCHIVE, 132 Vintage Photographs of Burma (Myanmar)
lot 146 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
gelatin silver quarter-plate photojournalist contact prints, c.1930-50, all with code numbers verso, many with brief titles in pencil, some with ... read more
Estimated at £300 - £400 More details 8
Library Of Congress Documentation of Historic Buildings, Photograph Collection
lot 147 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
37 vintage gelatin silver prints of historic American buildings, dating from 1940s to 1970s, many with wetstamp and other annotation verso, some ... read more
Estimated at £300 - £400 More details 18
Exhibition Press Photographs, Royalty
lot 148 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
Eight large photojournalism exhibition photographs, all gelatin silver prints c.1969, each mounted on board with pasted title below, giving title, ... read more
Estimated at £200 - £300 More details 15
J WILDS, Exhibition Press Photographs, The Troubles 1969
lot 149 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
Four large photojournalism exhibition photographs, all gelatin silver prints c.1969, each mounted on board with pasted title below, giving title, ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 6
FURLEY LEWIS (1867-1935) Un Maitre d'Armes
lot 150 (Books, Photographs & Works on Paper, 9th Sep, 2021)
a framed platinum print of a fencer, dated 1901, print 28cm x 20cm, on olive green mount with photographer's blind stamp and ink dedication 'To my ... read more
Sold for £99 Result plus buyers premium More details 2