RARE BOOKS A CATALOGUE
February 2019
....
Photographs
THOMAS ANNAN
Photographs of Glasgow College 1866
Glasgow College as Adam Smith knew it “by far the happiest and most honourable period of my life”
ANNAN,Thomas. Photographs of Glasgow College. Glasgow, T.Annan [1866] Oblong folio album, 15.5 x 11.0 ins, original green cloth, a little worn, skilfully rebacked, triple gilt fillets, with the College coat-of-arms in gilt on upper board and lettered in gilt Photographs of Glasgow College, 20 albumen silver prints mounted on cards rectos, [17.1-13.....
CASPER BAKER
Early photographs of the Royal Navy, Algiers, Seville and Gibraltar
Naval Cadet Casper Baker’s album of photographs 1865-1873 Quarto, 9 1/2 x 11inches, old paper boards, upper cover with paper label in ink Casper Baker, 62 pages, misnumbered 60 in pencil, interleaved with tissue, many albumen silver prints mounted on card, 6 naval photographs, and over 70 other photographs, the majority measuring over 7 x 9 in....
ALPHONSE RUBELLIN
Saddled camel with calf and owner
Smyrna circa 1880
Albumen print with oval corners 17.2 x 20.0cm, pasted on original album leaf titled in ink in a contemporary hand Smyrna Turkey in Asia, preserved in an acid free mount. The bearded and turbaned trader stands in front of his camel with its calf behind in a cobbled and flag stoned street beside a building with five columns at the side with shuttered w....