Paris: Publisher not identified, [1900]. First edition. 4to. [28 cm. x 19 cm], 102 pp., portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrations in text, 10 plates with tissue guards (1 of these in color). Original printed wrappers. Neat ownership signature of a member of the jury of classe 5 on the..... More
Paris: Leiber, 1865. First edition. 12mo., [i], 51 pp, [2] pp, 160 tables, 45 pp, [1] pp, errata. Contemporary (publisher's?) cloth, titled in gilt on the upper cover and in blind on the spine. A fine copy. SIGNED and presented by the author on the blank front flyleaf. Appended to..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1880. First edition. 12mo., 60 pp., frontispiece with tissue guard, engraved illustrations in text. Half morocco and marbled boards, gilt-title within raised bands on spine, t.e.g. Light occasional foxing. A very good copy. This volume is the text of Vidal's lecture presented at the Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1886. First edition. 12mo., 151 pp., engraved figures and charts. Half morocco and marbled boards, gilt title within raised bands on spine, t.e.g.; spine faded and light wear at tips. A very good and bright copy. This manual provides instructions for making negatives/positives for a variety of applications..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1885. First edition. 2 parts bound together. 8vo., [part 1] xvi, 348 pp., phototypie frontispiece, illustrations in text; [part 2] x, 238 pp., gelatin silver portrait frontispiece, text illustrations. Half morocco and marbled boards, raised bands on spine with gilt title and rules, t.e.g.; lightly rubbed. The..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1891. First edition. 12mo., xvi, 127 pp., frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrations in text, including one plate with a mounted color diagram of the visible color spectrum, and a folding diagram of Vogel's spectrographe with tissue guard. Half morocco and marbled boards, gilt-title within raised bands on spine..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1891. First edition. 12mo., xvi, 127 pp., illustrations in text, including one plate with a mounted color diagram of the visible color spectrum, and a folding diagram of Vogel's spectrographe with tissue guard. Quarter morocco and marbled boards, gilt-title within raised bands on spine. Some pencilled underlining and..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1891. First edition. 12mo., xvi, 127 pp., frontis with tissue guard, 14 illustrations in text, folding diagram of Vogel's spectrographe with tissue guard and one plate with a mounted color chart of the visible color spectrum. Printed paper wrappers. A folded contemporary manuscript of six holograph pages concerned..... More
Paris: Leiber, 1869 - 1870. First edition. 12mo., 163 pp. [with] V. Cordier. TRAITÉ INSUCCÈS EN PHOTOGRAPHIE, CAUSES ET RENÈDES. Paris: Leiber, 1866. First edition. [i] iii, 51, [3] pp. [with] Perrot de Chaumeux, L. COLLODION SEC. EXPOSÉ DE TOUS LES PROCÉDÉS CONNUS. MANIPULATIONS - FORMULES. Paris: Leiber, 1863. First..... More
Paris: Alfred Vibien, 1870. First edition. 12mo., 61, [1] pp. Publisher's original printed wrappers. Owner's neat signature on the blank flyleaf, and small ink stamp on the title page. A fine copy. This is the second volume of a two volume work; however, it is an independent work. Roosens and..... More
Bruxelles: Bureau du Bulletin Belge de la Photographie, 1873. First edition. 8vo., 51 pp., later cloth-backed marbled paper wrappers. The title page bears the stamp of a chemist as well as a manufacturer of photographic chemicals (the later stamp also appears on 2 additional leaves). Occasional light foxing, toning and..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1881. First edition. Small 8vo., xiv, 246 pp., photoglyptie (Woodburytype) frontispiece with tissue guard by Liebert, plus another printed by Woodbury; illustrations in text. Half morocco and marbled boards, raised bands on spine with gilt title and rules, t.e.g. Occasional scattered foxing. A very good copy. A nicely..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1877. Third edition [First edition]. Small 8vo., viii, 132 pp., mounted photochrome frontispiece with tissue guard, plus 2 mounted photomechanical plates identified as photochromes; other illustrations in text. Half morocco and marbled boards, gilt title within raised bands on spine, t.e.g.; minor rubbing at the edges. Light occasional..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1900. First edition. Small 8vo., xvii, 445 pp., 65 illustrations in text. New facsimile paper wrappers with fragments of original wrappers bound-in; first few leaves chipped at corners, with no loss of text A good, and unopened copy. Léon Vidal (1834-1906) was head of the Association of Musée..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1879. First edition. Small 8vo., xiv, 284 pp., frontispiece is a phototypie by Quinsac with tissue guard, plus 3 full-page phototypie plates by C. Relvas; other illustrations in text. Half morocco and marbled boards, raised bands on spine with gilt title and rules, t.e.g. Scattered foxing, frontispiece and..... More