CATALOGUES 1 - 25 AND INDEX - Rare Book Insider
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CATALOGUES 1 – 25 AND INDEX

26 volumes of varying pagination, illustrations in b&w, bound in decorative printed wrappers. All fine and housed in two card slipcases with silver titled spines, issued by the publisher. 1. Architecture: a catalogue of books and drawings -- 2. Books and drawings before 1800 -- 3. Public building. Part 1 -- 4. Public building. Part 2 -- 5. Standard works and books of reference -- 6. Books, drawings, engravings and related objects -- 7. Standard works -- 8. Furniture -- 9. Bridges -- 10. Eighty English books, drawings and manuscripts: from Inigo Jones to the Crystal Palace -- 11. The early eighteenth century.-- 12. General reference standard sets and periodicals -- 13. Dictionaries and encyclopedias -- 14. The gothic of gothick -- 15. Dutch architecture -- 16. Seven pillars of architecture: Vitruvius, Alberti, Serlio, Palladio, De l'Orme, Villalpando, Scamozzi -- 17. Landscape gardening and the picturesque -- 18. Magazines and periodicals -- 19. A miscellany of general works -- 20. The use of iron in construction and decoration: with a supplement of trade catalogues from foundries and ironmongers -- 21. Enraved ornament -- 22. Churches of Italy -- 23. Palaces and villas of Italy -- 24. Plans for London -- 25. The Society of Dilettanti, neo-classical taste and Greek Revival architecture. And Index. With Catalogue 20, The name of the firm changed to Weinreb & Breman Ltd.
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UNTITLED GELATIN SILVER PRINT

UNTITLED GELATIN SILVER PRINT

Chappell, Walter Vintage gelatin silver photograph 7 3/8 x 9 3/16 inches [18.54 x 23.34 cm.] The verso bears the printed label of the Carl Siembab Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, which reads, " Walter Chapel Photograph/ Please return the Print to Gallery." Written in the photographer's distinctive hand, " Return to Walter Chappell, For one-time Repro only, 1958." A fine print. Walter Chappell (1925 - 2000) was affiliated with a long list of noted American photographers: Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Paul Caponigro, Carl Chiarenza, et al. His association with Minor White, as a student, coworker at the George Eastman House, and with Aperture Magazine was one of his most enduring. He was represented by the Carl Siembab Gallery, one of the first galleries devoted solely to photography. In the early 1960s, the home he shared with his wife, the painter, Nancy Barrett Dickinson, was destroyed by fire, taking most of his negatives and prints. Photographs made prior to the fire are rare. This photograph was reproduced as plate XXXVI, the final image in, UNDER THE SUN: The Abstract Art of Camera Vision, By Nathan Lyons, Syl Labrot, Walter Chappell. New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1960. "Chappell's Plate XXXVI suggests a galaxy in colliding upsweep. Whatever the photographic source, he has swirled a majestic rhythm of purest spontaneity." Barbara Morgan, 5 REVIEWS OF "UNDER THE SUN", Aperture, Volume 8, N0. 4, 1960.