Apr 18, 2019 - Sale 2506

Sale 2506 - Lot 23

Price Realized: $ 4,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
BARON ADOLF DE MEYER, et alia.
CAMERA WORK. Number 24 * CAMERA WORK. Number 40.
Edited by Alfred Stieglitz. Together, 2 complete issues with 24 plates, comprising 7 by De Meyer, one by Wilmerding, and 2 by Rey in No. 24; and 14 photogravures by De Meyer in No. 40. 4tos, original gray wrappers, chipped and creased; the lower portion of backstrip perished and the front cover and endpaper mostly detached in No. 40; offsetting throughout.
New York, 1908 and 1912

Additional Details

From the Library of James Newberry.

The issues are originally from the Collection of Stieglitz's brother, Julius Stieglitz (1867-1937), a noted Chicago chemist and esteemed long-term faculty member at the University of Chicago. They were acquired from Hanzel Gallery, Chicago, Illinois in the late 1960s-early 1970s.