Paris: A. Gaudin, 1859. Third edition. 8vo., 600 pp., 128 illustrations on 10 folding pages, including 1 chromolithograph, 5 photolithographs. Quarter calf and marbled paper over boards; rubbing to the tips and gilt titling on the spine; the crown is slightly chipped and the joints are rubbeb. The top blank..... More
Paris: G. Masson, 1884. Seventh edition. 8vo., 431 pp., over 100 b&w wood engravings, carbon print on card stock. Contemporary binding, quarter morocco, marbled paper over boards, edges rubbed, scuff at the top of the spine. Lacking two leaves of plates. Very good. Revised and enlarged from previous editions with..... More
Paris: A. Gaudin, 1859. Third edition. 8vo., 600 pp., [4] adverts, 128 illustrations on 10 folding pages, including 1 chromolithograph. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled paper over boards and paper spine label. Partially opened between the half-title and title page; otherwise, a very good and bright copy. This is the..... More
Paris: A. Gaudin et Frère, 1856. Second edition. 8vo., 400 pp., plus 4 engraved folding plates and one heliogravure plate, which is detailed with a full tonal range, [3] adverts. Later binding of quarter calf gilt, and marbled paper over boards. The blank lower margin of the title page bears..... More
Paris: Marion et Ce. 1857. First edition. 8vo., 132 pp., 2 tipped in paper samples and 1 engraved plate; bound in at the end are the 10 folding plates from Monckhoven's 1859, RÉPERTOIRE GÉNÉRAL DE PHOTOGRAPHIE PRATIQUE ET THÉORIQUE..., which include a chromolithograph, a photolithograph, engraved plates showing optics, lenses..... More
London: Virtue Brothers, 1863. First English language edition. 12mo., 137 pp., 4, 7, over 100 b&w wood engravings. Publisher's cloth over flexible boards, blind and embossed with printed label affixed to front. Recased with a new spine, endpapers and spine label. Kodak Research Library stamp on title page and Camera..... More
Paris: Victor Masson et Fils, 1866. First edition. 8vo., 271 pp., 5 large folding engraved plates. The title page is torn and partially detached, partially opened at the gutter. Contemporary marbled paper over boards, recently rebacked in quarter morocco with 5 raised bands, titled in gilt. A good copy. Roosens..... More
Paris: Leiber Éditeur, 1862. First edition. 8vo., 212 pp., illustrated. New facsimile paper wrappers. Staining and toning to several leaves,with some tips mildly chipped with no loss of text. A good copy. Housed in a newly made clamshell box with a facsimile of the title page affixed to the upper..... More
Paris: Leiber Éditeur, 1862. First edition. 8vo., 212 pp., iv adverts, illustrated. Later black linen with a morocco spine label, original printed wrappers, which are slightly worn, bound in. Occasional light foxing. A very good copy. Although the title is similar to his earlier, and frequently revised and expanded, TRAITÉ..... More