E-LIST40 I am pleased to offer for sale a selection of recent acquisitions which include a humorous "Allmyknack" from 1873, two signed works by Walter Chappell, Colson's annotated anthology of the letters and papers of early inventors, Henry Goodwin's Stockholm with 39 tipped-in photogravures,  THE  NATURE-PRINTED BRITISH SEA-WEEDS complete in four volumes, Niewengloski's early work on RAYONS X, and a seemingly unique illustrated  American trade catalogue from 1858. 

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E-LIST 38 I am pleased to offer for sale this group of 74 entries which constitute the critical treatises, manuals and histories of the development of photography, from the first book that suggests the possibility, GIPHANTIA, a work of science fiction, 1761; the ground breaking processes of Daguerre and Talbot; the manuscript processing notes of Hugh Welch Diamond, one of the founding fathers of British photography; the advanced paper process of Le Gray; the advent of the motion picture in a large group of works by Marey and Muybridge; the first viable color processes of Ducos Du Hauron and Cros, with the first work to contain a color photograph from nature by Blanquart-Évrard; and the first work to document the advances of the photomechnical print, also by Blanquart-Évrard.  There is a complete set of the Société Française de Photographie's, CATALOGUE DE LA EXPOSITION ANNUELLE, 1857 - 1876.  These works are a small selection from my inventory of nearly 1000 technical manuals and treatises.  Please inquire for specific  titles. 

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E-LIST 36 I am pleased to offer for sale the third, and final part of a  multi-part series of catalogues from our extensive holdings of over 150 titles. This selection includes long or complete runs of: PENROSE'S PICTORIAL ANNUAL,  PERSPECTIVE, THE PHILADELPHIA PHOTOGRAPHER, THE PHOTO REPORTER, THE PHOTO-MINIATURE, PHOTOGRAMS OF THE YEAR, THE PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNAL, PHOTOGRAPHIC MOSAICS, THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS, THE PHOTOGRAPHIC TIMES, THE PHOTOGRAPHIC WORLD, PHOTOGRAPHISCHE CORRESPONDENZ, PHOTOGRPHY WORKSHOP, QUIVER,  STEREO WORLD, TERRE D'IMAGES, THE THEATRE, TWICE A YEAR, U.S. CAMERA, UNTITLED, and many others.

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E-List 35. I am please to offer for sale the second of a multi-part series of catalogues from our extensive holdings of over 150 titles. This selection includes long or complete runs of: EXPOSURE: JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC EDUCATION, FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS MAGAZINE, FOTO MAGAZINE. PUBLICACION MENSUAL ILUSTRADA CONSAGRADA AL ARTE FOTOGRAFICO (Buenos Aires), GRAPHIC TECHNOLOGY. THE PREPARATION OF PRINTING SURFACES: A BI-MONTHLY REVIEW, GROSSBILD TECHNIK. THE MAGAZINE OF LARGE NEGATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY, HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY: AN INTERNATIONAL QUARTERLY, HUMPHREY’S JOURNAL OF THE DAGUERREOTYPE, IMAGE: JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE, INFINITY: AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPHERS, and such rare titles as IMAGE CONTINUUM, which contains original silver gelatin photographs by Sally Mann, Ted Orland, Jerry Uelsmann, Frank DiPerna, among others, and LA LITHOGRAPHE, JOURNAL DES ARTISTES ETDES IMPRIMEURS, with descripitions of printing from daguerreotypes, 1840.

This sampling is but a fraction of my inventory; for a larger selection, please visit my website http://www.cahanbooks.com.  New additions are uploaded regularly.