Hardcover. Los Angeles, Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 170 pages, 183 early photographs from Scotland, circa 1839-1850. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Brewster was an eminent physicist whose principal research was in optics, which led to his intense interest in photography. He was also close friends with William Henry Fox Talbot, inventor of negative-positive paper photography. The Brewster album is a scrapbook, containing a miscellany of images by an assortment of early photographers.
Hardcover. London, Merrill Holberton, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Black & white photography. Clean, tight copy. These largely unpublished photographs, some only recently discovered, were taken by Aby Warburg on his trip to the American frontier in 1895. Neither a photographer nor a native tourist, Warburg was a scholar with a camera. As seen though his own cultural and psychological perspective on art, these insightful photographs are significant not only to the study of Native American and frontier life, but also to an understanding of Warburg's unique vision of cultural history. 80 duotone photos.
Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Published to commemorate the Hall of Presidents in the National Portrait Gallery. Features reproductions of portraits of every American president from George Washington to Bill Clinton. Historical notes accompany each illustration. Near fine condition; comes in original shrinkwrap.