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Auction: Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History (including Photographs) at Sotheby's, 34-35 New Bond Street, London W1A 2AA

May 14, 2013 from 10:30am to 2:30pm
Sotheby's e-catalogue Highlights include early photographs of China by Felice Beato (Lot 185), including a 6-plate panorama of Peking taken during the Second Opium War (1860) and a fine album of albumen prints by John Thomson (Lot 202) of Swatow, Amoy and Formosa (Taiwan) (c.1871).See More
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Auction: Fine Travel and Plate Books: A Private Collection at Sotheby's

February 28, 2013 all day
Lot 57. Francis Frith. Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem. [c.1858], 20 mammoth albumen prints (485 x 390mm., or the reverse), in the original dark green half morocco bindingEstimate £100,000-150,000 GBPSee More
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Carte de Visite

Focussing on all facets of the history of the carte de visite and the photographers that made them in Great Britain and around the world.See More
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Auction update: Highly important Julia Margaret Cameron/G.F. Watts album

The earliest known album of photographs compiled by Julia Margaret Cameron, including 15 unique images (most of which were hitherto unrecorded), and unseen on the market for more than forty years, sold at Sotheby's London on 12 December 2012 in the sale of English Literature and History for £121,250 (inc.buyer's…See More
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Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History (including Photographs) at Sotheby's

November 15, 2012 from 10am to 5pm
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/travel-atlases-maps-natural-history-l12405/lots.list.1.html#fkeys=filter-medium:-PhotographsPhotographic highlights include:John Thomson’s album “Foochow and the River Min. 1873” (lot 103) and a newly-discovered collection of photographs of Mecca by Al Sayyid Abd…See More
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"Hi Richard  I'm just finishing off writing the first Historical Group E-Newslettter which should be sent out on Friday.  Can I suggest that you look at as soon as it arrives as there may be items in which you will be…"
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Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History at Sotheby's London

November 15, 2011 from 10am to 3pm
Sotheby’s is delighted to announce the exciting discovery of over 220 photographs by the British photographer Linnaeus Tripe of India and Burma taken in the mid-1850s including 42 photographs of which no other prints are recorded, and five previously unknown photographs by Tripe.These photographs were presented by the photographer to the Governor-General of India, the 1st Marquess of Dalhousie and have come by descent to the present owner.The sale also includes early photographs of Siam by…See More
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Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History at Sotheby's

November 4, 2010 all day
Auction including topographical photographs of Malta, Polar exploration, Greece, Ceylon, India, West Africa, the Middle East, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Bermuda and Colombia.Exhibition:Sunday 31 October 12noon-5pmMonday 1 November 9am-4.30pmTuesday 2 Novemebr 9am-4.30pmWednesday 3 November 9am-4.30pmAuction:Thursday 4 November 10.30amSee More
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Auction: John Thomson album of China and Taiwan sold at Sotheby's

An album of 71 albumen prints by John Thomson of Swatow (Shantou), Amoy (Xiamen) and Formosa (Taiwan) sold for £134,500 at Sotheby's London on 14th May 2013 in a sale of Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History. The album had been purchased from Thomson by Dr Edward Irwin Scott (1846-1914), who ran a medical practice with his brother Dr Charles Scott in Swatow. The album included a presentation inscription by Dr Edward Scott to his mother-in-law dated 8th March 1874. Link here:…

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Posted on May 17, 2013 at 13:00

Auction: Record price for Beato photographs of China at Sotheby's

A group of 18 photographs of China by Felice Beato taken in 1860 was sold for £218,500 on the 14th May 2013 at Sotheby's London in the sale of Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History. The collection included a magnificent 6-part panorama of Beijing, the first ever taken showing the interior of the city. The price is believed to be an auction record for a group of photographs by Beato. Link:…

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Posted on May 17, 2013 at 13:00

Auction update: Highly important Julia Margaret Cameron/G.F. Watts album

The earliest known album of photographs compiled by Julia Margaret Cameron, including 15 unique images (most of which were hitherto unrecorded), and unseen on the market for more than forty years, sold at Sotheby's London on 12 December 2012 in the sale…

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Posted on December 12, 2012 at 20:37

Auction Record: Thomson's Foochow and the River Min, 1873

A rare album of photographs of China by John Thomson titled 'Foochow and the River Min' (1873) sold for an auction world-record of £349,250 (including buyer's premium) at Sotheby's on 15 November 2012. One of an edition of only 46, this album…

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Posted on November 19, 2012 at 10:30

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At 15:33 on July 9, 2012, Donald Stewart said…

Hi Richard  I'm just finishing off writing the first Historical Group E-Newslettter which should be sent out on Friday.  Can I suggest that you look at as soon as it arrives as there may be items in which you will be interested. 

Best wishes and hope to see you soon, Donald.

 
 
 

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National Media Museum, Bradford

Victoria and Albert Museum's photography collection

 Photographic History Research Centre, Leicester


De Montfort University. MA course Photographic History and Practice

The Press Photo History Project This project is currently mapping the photo agencies and photographers of Fleet Street and the UK

The correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot

National Monuments Record at English Heritage

UAL Photography and Photography and the Archive Research Centre

www.rps.org/group/Historical Royal Photographic Society's Historical Group

www.londonstereo.com London Stereoscopic Company / T. R. Williams

www.earlyphotography.co.uk British camera makers and companies

Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock.

National Portrait Gallery, London

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Alfred Seaman and the Photographic Convention

Frederick Scott Archer

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