Sale 2489 - Artists & Amateurs: Photographs & Photobooks, October 18, 2018

323 c LEWIS M. RUTHERFORD (1816-1892) Photographie de la Lune, á son 1st Quartier. Carbon print, the image measuring 14 1 / 2 x10 1 / 2 inches (36.8x26.7 cm.), the original printed mount 18 3 / 4 x12 1 / 4 inches (46.4x31.1 cm.), with Rutherford’s signature and date in the plate. 1885 [3,000/4,500] This richly toned carbon print is bound into a volume entitled Port Efeuille Des Eleves, Cours Astronomie. Generously illustrated with maps, diagrams, charts, heliotypes of telescopes, and other celestially-gazing devices. Folio, boards, edgewear. Np, nd. 323 324 324 c   JOHN KUEHNE (1872-1960) Group of 4 prints depicting the negative charge of electricity discharged from a Leyden jar. Ferrotyped silver prints, the images measuring 6x4 3 / 4 to 8 1 / 4 x7 3 / 4 inches (15.2x12.1 to 22.2x19.7 cm.), each with notations, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. Circa 1930 [400/600] Kuehne was a Professor of Physics at the University of Texas, Austin, from 1909-1951. A pioneer, he researched the relationship between magnetism and electricity, and helped found the McDonald Observatory.