Lot of two Charles Wood Photography Catalogs: Catalog 87, Parts one and two, Conservation, The Science of Art, Photography, 1995; Catalog 105, The Photograph and the Book V, 2000; Catalogue 114, Nineteenth Century Photography, 2003.
Cambridge: Charles Wood, 1995, 2000, 2003. First edition. Original Wraps. Catalog 87: Small Octavo, pp. 123, 96; Catalog 105, Oblong Octavo, pp. 79; Catalog 114, Oblong Octavo, pp. 83. All four volumes richly illustrated w/ b/w photographs important in the history of photography. Catalogues 87 (parts 1 and 2) and Catalogue 105, Near Fine; Catalogue 114 lightly curled, else Near Fine. Item #9648
Fascinating as price catalogs, even more so as documents in the history of photography-- far more informative than many published histories--subtler and more comprehensive than Roth's Book of 101 Books. For example: Item 93., in Catalog 105, is the first American book illustrated with a photograph, "'Homes of American Statesmen: with anecdotal, personal and descriptive sketches by various writers.' New York, 1854. The first American book illustrated with an original mounted photograph, a salt print.... A few copies are known with a Christmas 1853 inscription indicating the priority of this book over the book on fossil footprints by John C. Warren, also of 1854...."
Price: $60.00