Photography & Photobooks

Image for ANTHONY & HASKELL. Ballet. Camera Studies. First edition, inscribed; limited to 100 copies. London, 1937 #3

One of only 100 copies - not only signed by Anthony, but inscribed by Haskell too

ANTHONY, Gordon and Arnold HASKELL

Ballet. Camera Studies

Bles, London, 1937. £1,250

Fine example of this classic record of the Ballets Russes, with the signatures of both authors, which is unusual.

Image for LISSITZKY. USSR in Construction. The Arctic issue. Moscow, 1933. #2

"The five-year plan for mastering the Arctic" (page 1)

LISSITZKY, El [Lazar Markovich] (designer)

USSR in Construction. The Arctic Issue (1933 No. 9)

The State Publishing Union of RSFSR, Moscow, 1933. £1,150

The famous Arctic issue of the main propaganda magazine from Soviet Union, designed by Lissitzky. A superb production, here in its English version and in fresh condition.

Image for F. TAHIROFF [TAGIROV] and others. New York (an outline). First edition. Moscow, 1933. #2

Fine photomontage book on the Big Apple - published in English in Moscow

TAHIROFF, F[aik] (artist), John KASHKEEN (compiler), John REED, John DOS PASSOS and others

New York (an outline)

Co-operative publishing society of foreign workers in the USSR, Moscow, 1933. £9,750

"The price paid by American people": a fine Soviet book pulished in English in the wake of the Great Depression. With extensive photomontage; a very good copy of the first edition, rare complete with both supplements.

Image for VISHNEVSKII. Three Tatar People. Original photographs, Astrakhan, ca. 1870s. #2

Early photographs of Tatars

VISHNEVSKII, Stepan Mikhailovich

[Three Portraits of Tatar People]

[Astrakhan, early 1870s]. £650

Fine portraits of three people from Tatarstan, in traditional dress. Rare to find such early photographs of Tatar people, and in such fresh condition.

Image for SEBAH. Georgian Man. Photography, ca. 1880s. #2

In traditional dress

SEBAH, Pascal

Portrait of a Georgian Man

Constantinople, [c.1880]. £125

Lovely carte-de-visite portrait by the leading photographer based in Constantinople.

Image for LEIMAN. Panorama of Tuapse. Photographic panels, 1911. #2

Extremely rare and very long view of a Black Sea port

[LEIMAN (attributed to)]

Panorama of Tuapse

[Southern Russia, ca. 1911]. £1,950

A small Russian port on the Black Sea with railway works and development: an informative and very rare photographic panorama, impressively long: almost 1.9 metre!

Image for [ROMANOVS] P. LEBEDEV. Historical album; Portraits of the Royal House of the Russian Land. First edition, very rare. St. Petersburg, 1875. #2

Early photographic album

[ROMANOVS] – P. LEBEDEV (artist)

Istoricheskii albom tysiacheletiia Rossii. Portrety tsarskogo doma zemli russkoi s 862-1862 g [The Millenium of Russia Historical Album. Portraits of the Royal House of the Russian Land 862-1862]

K. Solovev, Skt. Peterburg, 1875. £3,500

Very rare: no copy traced on the Russian market, no copy traced oustide Russia. A luxury celebration of the Russian rulers, with the use of photography, and fine chomolithography. In an impressive full-leather binding.

Image for N. GEKKER [HECKER]. Yakut Physical Type, first edition, in Russian. Irkutsk, 1896. #2

Siberian people in photography

GEKKER, Naum Leontevich [HECKER]

K kharakteristikie fizicheskago tipa iakutov : antropologicheskii ocherk. Zur Charakteristik des physischen Typus der Iakuten [On Characteristics of the Yakut Physical Type]

Irkutsk, Makushin, 1896. £3,500

A shot in the head, gold mining in Siberia, ethnography of the locals, and the use of photography: an interesting and unsual work on these people of deep Siberia. Scarce first edition of the original Russian, complete with its photographic plate.

Image for MITKIN, M. General View of Yalta. Photographic panorama. Yalta, 1890s. #2

Yalta's bay on a 1.5m panorama

MITKIN, Mikhail

Obshchii vid Ialty [General View of Yalta]

[Yalta, 1890s]. £8,500

Fine and scarce photographic view of the famous Crimean coastal town. In an attractive binding of the time.

Image for STANISLAVSKII, K. Photograph inscribed. Moscow, 1911. #2

Chekhov's innovative director

STANISLAVSKII, Konstantin Sergeevich

Cabinet photograph signed to Andrei Pavlovich Petrovskii

Scherer, Nabholz & Co, Moskva, [c. 1911]. £3,750

Excellent photograph of the famous director, beautifully inscribed to a fellow man of theatre.

Image for BOURKE-WHITE, Meet Some of the Soviet People. First edition, c.1941 #2

By the first American woman war photojournalist

BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret

Meet Some of the Soviet People

Russian War Relief, Inc., New York, [1941?]. £800

The variety of peoples of the USSR in fine photographic portraits by a great photographer, possibly the most significant woman photographer of her time.

Image for LOUKOMSKI, G. Le Kreml de Moscou. Paris, c. 1927-28. Complete first edition #1

One of the greatest museums of Russia

LOUKOMSKI [LUKOMSKII] Georgii Krestsenovich

Le Kreml (Kremlin) de Moscou. Ses cathédrales, ses palais et ses trésors d'art

Société moderne d'impressions for Nilsson, Paris, [ca. 1927-28]. £250

A complete example of this impressive photographic survey of the Kremlin and its fantastic museums.

Image for KALINOVSKII, Les chasses au Caucase. Okhoty Kavkaza. First edition, St. Petersbourg, 1900. With 100 plates. #2

Abundant imperial hunting parties in the Mountains

KALINOVSKII, A

Les chasses au Caucase. Okhoty Kavkaza

Vilborg for A. Yakovlev, Skt. Peterburg, 1900. £6,500

First edition of this impressive visual record of imperial hunting parties in the Caucasus - one of the greatest Russian hunting books, in French and Russian, conceived and produced specifically to promote the Caucasian region at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1900. With 100 leaves of illustrations. A good example in the publisher's binding.

Image for RODCHENKO and others. Complete set of Novyi LEF' journal complete with Rodchenko's wrappers. #1

Out of stock

Complete set in original wrappers

RODCHENKO Aleksandr, Varvara STEPANOVA et al. (artists)

Novyi LEF. Zhurnal Levogo Fronta Iskussiv. Nos. 1 - 12 (1927) + 1 - 12 (1928). (All Published)

Moskva, Gosizdat, 1927-28.

A rare complete set of the celebrated 'Novyi LEF' journal, complete with wrappers by Rodchenko.

Image for [SIBERIA & RUSSIAN FRA EAST]. Guide to the Great Siberia Railway. First edition in English. Fine copy. St. Petersburg, 1900. #2

Out of stock

Everything you need to know - and more

DMITRIEV-MAMONOV, A.I., A.F. ZDZIARSKII and John MARSHALL (transl.)

Guide to the Great Siberian Railway

Artistic Printing Society, St. Petersburg, 1900.

Fine example of the first edition in English. A volume with a wealth of information on Russia, Siberia and the Russian Far East under Tsar Nicholas II's rule. Richly illustrated, with foloding maps and city plans.