Newton Maker (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library. Red cloth. Corners show modest wear, library marks on spine and endpapers, stamps to textblock. otherwise a clean and solid copy with unmarked pages.

London : Newton & Co., [1897]. Photographic glass magic lantern slide, 82 x 82 mm (mount); the black paper border has a ms. caption in white ink in right-hand margin: 'A Summer Evening / July 1894', and a printed label in the left-hand margin 'From Nansen's "Farthest North," (Copyright)'; maker's printed label partially visible at upper left; old collection number in ms. lower left; the slide is in excellent condition, with no chips, scratches or other marks. Scarce lantern slide reproducing one of the photographs taken on the first Fram expedition (1893-96) under Norwegian explorerFridtjof Nansen. Photographs on the expedition were taken by Nansen himself as well as some of the other crew members. Although they did not reach the North Pole,Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen, with a team ofSamoyed dogsand sledges, achieved a recordFarthest Northlatitude of 86°13.6?N. The set of Farthest North slides was first issued by Newton & Co. early in 1897, around the same time as Nansen's published account of the same name. The following advertisement for the set appeared in the firm's 1899 trade catalogue, Catalogue of magic lanterns, dissolving-view apparatus, and lantern slides: "499. We have obtained the sole right to re-produce as lantern slides, the pictures in Dr Nansen's 'Farthest North'.These Slides are printed from the same negatives as those used by Dr Nansen at his own lectures.Of these Slides, 'The Times' of February 9th, 1897,says: 'A series of singularly beautiful photographic illustrations of the many interesting and exciting incidents of the Expedition.'The above 52 Slides have been selected as forming a fairly comprehensive set.?

[Title from ms. caption on mount]. [London, U.K. : Newton & Co, 43 Museum Street, circa 1900]. Photographic glass magic lantern slide, 82 x 82 mm; black paper border with ms. caption and old collection number in white ink; slide maker's label partially obscured at top corner; in fine condition. This extraordinary image is one of a series of photographs taken by local photographer Guy Clayton Morris (1868-1918) in the Dunedin Botanic Garden in 1899, which depict a mock moa hunt. The "moa" pictured was reconstructed from a skeleton by Augustus Hamilton, registrar of Otago University. Hamilton persuaded Te Rani Hiroa (SirPeter Buck, standing at left), missionaryKoroneho Himi Papakakura (seated at right) and medical student Tutere Wirepa to pose with the recreated moa in a series of tableaux that would attempt to portray what a moa hunt may have looked like. (National Library of New Zealand).