Edweard Muybridge (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Brown cloth, lettered in gold foil. As issued. Pictorial dust jacket VG with mild tanning, small ink marks to portions of front panel, 1" long shallow chip along top front panel edge, now in mylar. 1st thus. 74-pp. intro., 340 pp. plates including 4,000+ photographs. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.…

hardcover. Condition: near fine. First. Seven foot accordion fold panorama of San Francisco in 1878, and on the reverse, in 1990. Thin folio, photographic boards. (San Francisco: Bedford Arts, 1990). First Edition. Near fine.

xvii, [3] p. 195 double page plates. Publisher's hardback binding. The contents are clean and tight. A very good copy. The plates are a series of high speed (up to 1/1200th of a second) images of men, women, and children walking, running, and standing.

74 p. 183 plates. Publisher's hardback binding with a mark at the foot of the front board and slight wear visible on the spine ends. The contents are clean and tight. The plates are a series of high speed (up to 1/1200th of a second) images of some 34 species walking, running, and flying.

60 classic photographic sequences.

Dover Publications, INC. New York. 1957. Publishers cloth. Dustjacket. 28 x 21 cm. 74 pp + 183 plats. Very good condition. Givers signature on first free endpaper.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. (Muybridge, Edweard). "A Horse's Motion Scientifically Determined" in Scientific American, 19 October 1878, vol 39 no. 16, pg 241 (about 1000 words, plus front page) in the issue of pp 239-254. There is a terrific illustration for this article that takes up nearly the entire front page ("the science of the horse's motion") with an assemblage showing the horse's motion in 18 progressive photographs. Excellent content. The issue is in GOOD condition (5/10 or so), and is extracted from a larger bound volume. The imagery seems to be from the first illusrated appearance of Muybridge's experiments at Palo Alto that had been published as cabinet cards in June 1878. The appearance of the images and the description of the event in Scientific American in October 1878 may be the first "mass market" illustrated presentation of the achievement naming Muybridge specifically as the technical expert and inventor (being supported by Leland Stanford). (I should point out that the most famous image of the galloping horse series does not include the "unsupported motion" shot of the horse with all four hooves off the ground at the same time—but then the horse being used was a trotter, so that explains the absence of the famous image.) A full large book by Muybridge (The Horse in Motion) was published in 1882. We read from the opening of the short article: "A short time since the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN briefly noted the fact that Mr. Muybridge, of San Francisco, had perfected an automatic electro-photographic apparatus, by means of which he had succeeded in recording the action of horses in motion. Mr. Muybridge courteously responded by forwarding a series of instantaneous photographs, showing with absolute accuracy the motions of horses when walking, trotting, and running. From these we have selected two series, the first showing the movement of the horse " Abe Edgington," while walking at a 15 minute gait; the secondshowing the same horse while trotting at a 2:24 gait. These—omitting the driver and his sulky—we have had enlarged and skillfully engraved, as shown in the illustration on the first page." "In taking the negatives of these photographs, Mr. Muybridge employed a series of cameras, operated by electricity, and so placed as to fix with absolute accuracy the several phases in the continuous action of the horse while making one stride. The exposure for each negative was about the two thousandth part of a second. The vertical lines on the background are twenty-eight inches apart; the heavy horizontal line represents the level of the track; the others mark elevations of four, eight, and twelve inches respectively. These lines are necessary for the analysis of the movement of the horse."--from the beginning of the article.…

First edition. One of about 50 sets, signed by the publisher and the facilitator. Copy #22. Originally 300 sets were planned but the production costs were so horrendous that this publication nearly put Chicago Albumen Works out of business and they called it quits at about 50 sets. Ten gold-toned mammoth albumen prints made from Muybridge's original negatives: 29 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches. Accompanying booklet with two essays. Housed in the original canvas clamshell case with morocco gilt lettering label to front. Trifling bit of wear to the box but overall an excellent copy.…