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Prints & Photographs

Our selection of photographs and photographic books is notable in terms of condition and connoisseurship. We are also purveyors of museum quality prints, from the Medieval to the Modern, including (but not limited to) original graphic work by noteworthy artists such as Albrecht Durer and Rembrandt, Matisse and Picasso. Graphic and typographic work by the Russian Avante-Garde and the Italian Futurists are also of significant interest.

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"The Holy Family" - an original woodcut print by Albrecht Durer

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Photographs of the 1936 Olympic Games

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Photography in the service of Propaganda

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Olympic Games - Berlin 1936

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COMPLETE SET OF CESKOSLOVENSKA FOTOGRAFIE, the most important Czech photo annual of the 30s and 40s

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Wright Morris "The Inhabitants" 1948: the first photo-novel

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Ponting's Japanese Studies, 1906

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Color Photographic Views of Sarajevo

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The First Paparazzi photobook of New York's high society, unfindable in such brilliant condition

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Riefenstahl's documentary of the Berln 1936 Olympic Games - a fine copy