Boston: Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1850. Daguerre. First American edition. 12mo., 388 pp., [24] pp. adverts. Decoratively blind-embossed cloth; gilt-titled spine is lacking the top and bottom inch and been laid-down on new cloth. Ex-library and withdrawn from an academic library with their bookplate affixed to the front pastedown and..... 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: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, Imprimeurs Libraires, Éditeurs de la Bibliothèque Photographique, 1889. First edition. 12mo., vi, 26 pp., (12) pp. publisher's catalog. Newly added facsimile wrappers. A fine copy. Sewn in at rear is the publisher's "Catalogue de Photographie." Roosens and Salu No. 3047. More
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1858. First edition. 4to., [3], 198 pp. The cloth binding is lightly faded; lacking front endpaper, front hinge slightly loose, board tips curled, and lightly foxed. Good. Provides a brief history of the "discovery of the beautiful art of photography"; Wedgwood, Niépce, Daguerre and Talbot..... More
(Paris? Imprimerie Nationale? / L'Académie des Sciences, 1875?). Folio, 187 pp., illustrations. Contemporary pastepaper over boards, newly rebacked in morocco with spine label in gilt. Light foxing on first and last few leaves, else very good. An offprint from MÉMOIRES PRÉSENTES PAR DIVERS SAVANTS A L'ACADÉMIE DES SCIENCES DE L'INSTITUT..... More
London: Joseph Lilly, 1863. First edition. 4to., xlii, 377 pp., 37 plates, and numerous wood-engravings. Full contemporary calf, rebacked with morocco labels on spine. The edges are rubbed with wear at the tips and some chipping where the new spine meets the old leather. Scattered foxing. Probably the most thorough..... More
Paris: Gauthiers-Villars et Fils, 1898. First edition, second printing. Small 4to., (vi), 82 pp. The printed paper wrappers are creased and rubbed, mildly chipped along the spine with a 3 inch separation of the front wrapper at the top of the spine. Very good and partially unopened. Text in French..... More
Boston: The American Photographic Publishing Co., 1945. Second printing. 8 vo., 514 pp., diagrams. A near fine copy. Boni p. 59: "An indispensable supplement to E.J. Wall History of Three Color Photography (1925), particularly valuable for its extensive analytical treatment of patent disclosures." More
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London: Taylor and Francis, 1853 - 1855. Mixed editions. 8vos., 27 issues, variable paginations, loose folded sheets, illustrations and figures in text. One issue has the first leaf detatched, several partially separated at the fold with no loss, the last has a few closed tears, several are toned or dusty..... More
NY: Viking Press, 1982. Brassai. First edition. 4to., 224 pp., numerous b&w photos. Fine in cloth with the near fine illustrated dust jacket. Brassaï's memoir of over fifty years of friendship with twenty great artists and art dealers, including: Picasso, Miró, Matisse, Maillol, Giacometti, Dali, Léger, Le Corbusier, Bonnard, and..... More
Brussels: A. D. A. C., 1956. First edition. 4to., 224 pp., adverts, illustration in b&w and color. Light rubbing at the spine along the front joint; very good. More
Mexico D.F. Artes en México, 1969. First edition. 4to., 94 pp., largely illustrated from b&w and color photographs. Light wear to the wrappers. Very good. Texts in Spanish, English, French and German. Published as Issue No. 121 of Artes en México, 1969. More
NY: Artemis Project, 1984. First edition. Oblong 8vo., 108 pp., chiefly illustrated from b&w photographs. Photo-illustratd stiff wrappers. The wrappers and foredge are lightly foxed,; else very good. More
Paris: Éditions du Signe, 1930. First illustrated edition. 4to., 68, [3] pp., color frontispiece and 17 additional color plates. A near fine copy in the publisher's broken and soiled white paper over boards chemise and slipcase. First published anonymously in 1928 in a very small edition with no illustrations, this..... More
19 ring binders and bound notebooks of varying sizes, containing thousands of pages of notes, figures, graphs and formulas, in holograph, typescript and printed form, pertaining to all aspects of the chemical analysis of various clays, and the manufacture of ceramics, with particular attention to porcelain and its glazes, and..... More
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Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Ediciones en Foco, [2019]. First edition. 8vo., 129 pp., 25 color plates, errata sheet laid-in. Color illustrated stiff wrappers with printed inner flaps. Fine, as new. In this new bibliography, Roberto A. Ferrari has greatly expanded upon his Bibliografia de Publicaciones Argentinas con Fotografías Montadas [1864..... More
Buffalo: Self published, 1972. Krims, Les. First edition. 6 x 5 1/2 inches, 2 folded pages of text, with 10 loose plates from photographs. Housed in hinged box with mounted plate from a photograph. One small faint spot on the cover image and a tiny spot of rubbing to the..... More
Millerton, NY: An Aperture Book, Publication made possible by United Technologies Corporation, 1981. First ed. 4to., 111 pp., b&w captioned photographs. A fine copy in pictorial dw. Includes photographs by: Bischof, Capa, Cartier-Bresson, Erwitt, Koudelka, Morath, Stock and others. More
Bullock, Wynn. Poem by Ursula Le Guin. NY: Aperture, 1993. First ed. 4to., 119 pp., frontis, b&w photos. Fine in the illustrated dj that has a short tear at the top of the front panel. With excerpts from the writings of Wynn Bullockwith an extensive bibliography. More
NY: Abbeville Press, 1988. First edition. Fine in stiff wrappers. More
Mount Vernon, NY: Consumers Union, 1987. Richards, Eugene. First edition. 4to., (vi), 218 pp., numerous b&w photo-illustrations. Pictorial stiff wrappers. A fine copy. The author/photographer recorded his visits to the poor in: South Dakota, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Tennessee, Illinois, Wyoming, New York City, Arkansas, Boston, California. More
Amherst, Massachusetts: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1988. First edition. 8vo., xii, 242 pp., 40 plates from b&w photographs. First and last free endpaper are toned; else fine in stiff wrappers. More
Boston: Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, 1987. First edition. 4to., [15] pp., b&w plates from photographs. Photo-illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. Published as the catalogue for an exhibition and symposium on the work of, Victor Burgin, John Hillard, Jo Spence and Mitra Tabrizian. More
Waterbury, CT. American Office Print, [ca. 1850]. Hayden. Broadside, 12 x 10 inches, text with decorative border. Fine. A fine example of an itinerant daguerreotypist's broadside. Purposefully, spaces for the town and building location have been left blank to accommodate the changing locales. More
Prague: Torst, 1995. Sudek, Josef. First edition. Folio, 407 pp., b&w, over 200 sepia-toned and color illustrations from photographs. The staple bound 30 pp. pamphlet of the abridged and translated text is laid-in. A fine copy in dust jacket, in the publisher's worn and broken plain card slipcase. A major..... More