Dominic Winter

676* Magic Lantern Slides. An assorted group of photographic
views and colour story slides, late 19th and early 20th century, some
in boxes but largely loose, some seal wear, mostly 8 x 8cm but also
including 8 x 11cm, etc.
(a small wooden box) £70-100
679* Mendelssohn (Hayman Selig, 1847-1908). Portrait of an
unidentified young woman, circa 1900, hand-painted photograph,
half-length in front of a heavy drape, signed ‘H.S. Mendelssohn’
lower left, 29 x 24cm, framed and glazed in a velvet-covered desk
photo frame (marked ‘H.S. Mendelssohn, Pembridge Crescent, W.’),
with two hinged covers and gilt clasp, velvet partly rubbed and wood
showing through a few splits at front
(1) £150-200
677* Mance (Henry Christopher, 1840-1926). Portrait of the
English electrical engineer Henry Mance sat at a small table with a
prototype of his invention the heliograph, circa 1869, albumen print
carte de visite, printed credit stamp of Sind, Kurrachee to verso and
near-contemporary pencil note dating the photograph to November
or December 1869, 9 x 6cm
In the photograph the young and bearded Mance sits in his army uniform with
his hand resting on a morse code key attached to a swivelling device on which
is mounted a rectangular plate with a hole in its centre, the apparatus is
mounted on a rotating stand. Apparently a prototype of the heliograph, Mance
started working on his invention in 1869 while stationed in Karachi. Mance
made a patent application at the US patent office in February 1876. Rare.
(1) £100-150
678* Maull & Polyblank. A group of 4 portraits, late 1850s, arched
top albumen prints on original mounts within gilt borders with
photographers’ imprint details at foot of each, subjects include
Robert Stephenson (1803-1859), Thomas Graham (1805-1869) and
Samuel Warren (1807-1877), images 19.5 x 14.5cm, plus a head-andshoulders
portrait of Viscount Palmerston, photographed for Herbert
Fry’s National Gallery of Photographic Portraits, late 1850s, oval
albumen print, 20 x 16.5cm, original mount with imprint and
facsimile autograph of the sitter to lower mount, all framed and
glazed, plus other mostly French Woodburytype portraits, mostly
framed and glazed
(20) £100-150
680* Middle East. A group of 9 albumen prints by Antonio Beato
and Jean-Pascale Sebah, circa 1870, the two by Beato of temples
at Karnak, both signed in the negative, 22 x 25cm and slightly
smaller, card mounts, the others by Sebah mostly of ruins but
including one view of Cairo, signed and mostly captioned in the
negative, three loose, three on contemporary mounts and one on
modern archival mount, 20.5 x 27cm and 2 larger, plus a large
albumen print of a Middle Eastern mosque [by F. Meissner, 1860s],
26.5 x 42.5cm, original mount, some marks to image and mount,
plus other British and European albumen print photography interest
including an album with 40 views
(17) £200-300
681* Miscellaneous photography, late 19th and early 20th
century, a group of 10 albums containing mostly British and
European views, family pictures, genre subjects, etc., various
bindings and sizes
(10) £100-200
682* Miscellaneous photography, 19th & 20th century, including
albums, loose prints and press photos, various subjects and sizes
(2 cartons) £100-200
683* Miscellaneous photography, late 19th and 20th century, an
assorted collection of broken albums and loose and mounted
photographs, including British and European views, Japan and India
interest, plus erotica, etc.
(a carton) £150-200
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