Auction Catalogs. C. Wesley Cowan Historic Americana Auction. The Robert W. Lisle History of Photography Collection. December 5, 1998, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Lots include Daguerreotype Cameras and Apparatus, Talbotypes, Vintage Daguerreian Literature, Daguerreian Era Ephemera, Daguerreotypes, Stereoscopic Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Ivorytype, Daguerreian Jewelry, Union Cases and Thermoplastic Case Art, Collodion Wet Plate Cameras and Apparatus, Large Format Wet Plate Imagery, Tintypes, Cartes-de-Visite, Cabinet Cards, Mathew Brady, Abraham Lincoln and Civil War, Viewing Devices such as Zoetrope and Stereoscopes, Niagara Falls images, Gelatin Dry Plate Cameras and Apparatus, Autochrome, Orotone, Street Photographer Cameras, early Kodak cameras, Detective Cameras (1880s), Sheet and Roll Film classic cameras including Leica, Photographic Literature, et al.  Near fine with short crimp top left corner of front cover. 365 lots, numerous illustrations, some in color.