NY: Aperture, 1985. Hosoe, Eikoh. First edition thus. Folio, color illustrations, b&w photographs. A fine copy in the color illustrated dust jacket, with the publisher's printed silver wraparound band, which is lightly rubbed and creased. SIGNED in silver in by Hosoe in Japanese on the front free endpaper. The third..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978. First edition. 8vo., 359 pp. Fine in the price-clipped illustrated dust jacket. A fictional account of Maude Pratt "a character larger than life, coarse, sensitive, unforgiving, strangely admirable, a genius of the photograph" - from the dust jacket blurb. More
Stockholm: Riksutställningar, 2001. First edition. 4to., 74 pp., illustrated from color and b&w photographs. French fold sheets bound in color illustrated stiff wrappers with inner flaps. Small stain on the bottom edge; a very good copy. Prepared as the catalogue for an exhibition and dedicated to Shoji Ueda (1913 -..... More
Paris: Alexis Gaudin et Frères, 1855. First edition. 8vo., xxiv, 140 pp. Lacking the engraved portrait frontispiece. Quarter calf and marbled paper over boards, gilt-title within gilt rules on spine, which is moderately rubbed. [bound with] Blanquart-Évrard, M. [Louis Désiré] TRAITÉ DE PHOTOGRAPHIE SUR PAPIER; AVEC UNE INTRODUCTION PAR M...... More
London / New York: Phaidon Press, 2004 / 2006. First editions. 4tos., 320 / 336 pp., fully illustrated from color photographs. Fine, near new in color illustrated dust jackets. Volume I is SIGNED by Martin Parr on the half-title page. To this cataloguer's mind, the best of the compendiums that..... More
Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, [1858]. Second edition. 8vo., xx, 412 pp., charts and tables. A fine and bright copy in contemporary gilt titled and decorated quarter morroco and paper over boards. Charles Louis Barreswil, 1817 - 1870, studied chemistry under Jules Pelouze, and later directed his laboratory, working with Claude Bernard. After..... More
Washington: Published for the National Portrait Gallery by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983. Cornelius, Robert. First edition. 4to., 152 pp., text illustrations, 32 full-page plates. The rear wrapper is somewhat warped. A very good copy, published only in illustrated stiff wrappers. Though his career was short, his studio was only..... More
Paris: Imprimerie Paul Dupont, 1892. First edition. 8vo., x, 162 pp., 6 plates. New paper wrappers with the original printed wrapper mounted to covers. A few leaves have short closed tears; several leaves not completely opened. Includes statements by Niépce and Daguerre; the presentation of Daguerre's discovery at the Chamber..... More
Paris: Chez Dentu, et chez l'auteur, 1862. First edition. 8vo., [ii], 413, [blank 414], 419 - 420 pp. [i.e. 416 pages]. Quarter morocco and marbled paper over boards. Moderate foxing to the first and last few leaves. Light rubbing at the edges; a very good copy. Joseph Auguste Belloc, 1789..... More
Paris: The Author, 1858. First edition. 8vo., [iv], 447 pp. Contemporary quarter roan and marbled paper over boards. Mild rubbing at edges; shelf numbers and deaccession stamps of the Société Francaise de Photographie on the blank margin of the half-title and title page, a few blank lower tips are creased..... More
[Philadelphia: Michael Becotte], 1977. Becotte, Michael. First edition. Oblong elephant folio, 17 x 22.5 inches, which consist of a title sheet, colophon and 20 offset lithographs from photographs, loose as issued, all contained in a cloth box of tray and lid with a mounted illustrated offset photographic plate. Two corners..... More
Brewster, Mass. Steven Albahari / 21st, 2004. Joel-Peter Witkin. First edition. Folio, 171 pp., illustrated with both color and b&w photographs. Red cloth with a debossed photograph affixed to the front cover. Housed in the publisher's white cloth clamshell box, titled along the spine. All housed in the publisher's card..... More
Halle: Verlag von Wilhelm Knapp, 1905. Third edition. 8vo., xvi, 484 [1] pp., 12 plates - including one folding panoramic plate, photogravures, photogalvanographs, and one color plate, with numerous text illustrations. Newly bound in half calf and marbled paper over boards. Original wrappers bound in. Slight bump to the blank..... More
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Baltimore: Richard Walzl; John Cox, Book, Job and Poster Printer, 1872. Second edition. 12mo., original mounted albumen frontispiece with tissue guard, 179, [1] pp., illustrations, map. The printed and illustrated wrappers are also illustrated on the reverse. The wrappers are chipped at corners; a closed tear at the spine base..... More
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1968. Easterly, Thomas M. Offprint - Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Missouri Historical Society, July 1968. 8vo., p. 329 - 339, 10 reproductions from photographs. Printed paper wrappers. Near fine. Thomas M. Easterly was a daguerreotypist based in St. Louis, who began making photographs of Native..... More
Paris: Paul Montel, 1925. Puyo, C. First edition. Small 8vo., 68 pp. Printed stiff wrappers. Pencil underlining and notations; else very good. Constant Puyo, 1857 - 1933, was a prominent French Pictorialist and leading member of the Photo Club de Paris. He wrote several instructional manuals and published his work..... More
London: The Autotype Company, [ca. 1920]. First edition. 12mo., 46 pp., (3) adverts. Printed stiff wrappers. Fine. Describes the carbro method, the bromoil process, inking, transferring the pigmented print, and the Autotype press. Roosens and Salu No. 7602. More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1888. First edition. Small 8vo., vi, 29 [3] pp., plus 4 pp. adverts. Plain stiff paper wrappers with publisher's label, possibly a remainder issue. A near fine copy, unopened. Explains the use of silver, iron salts, and potassium bichromate in making of photographic reproduction of prints..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1897. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Small 8vo., xii, 212 pp., illustrated. Original decorative wrappers. A very good unopened copy. A comprehensive treatise on short-duration (exposure) photography, inclusive of cameras, shutters, lenses, lighting, sensitized materials and processing. Albert Londe, 1858 - 1917, was an influential French..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1892. First edition. 8vo., 36 pp., 16 illustrations. Printed paper wrappers. The upper tip of the rear wrapper is creased. Near fine and unopened. A presentation on the applications and advances in medical photography, with interesting illustrations. At the head of the title: CONSERVATOIRE NATIONAL DES..... More
NY: Press of W.R. Jenkins, 1891. First edition. 12mo., xii, 213 pp., plus adverts. Publisher's cloth titled in gilt on the upper cover. Fine. A comprehensive manual and formulary on the development of contemporary processes. Roosens and Salu No. 3058. More
London: John Churchill, 1855. First edition. 12mo., xvi, 384 pp., errata, figures in text. Publisher's gilt and blind-embossed cloth. There is a short closed tear on the half-title page with no loss, and a private library stamp on the front free endpaper and blank margin of the preface. The rear..... More
New York: Scovill Manufacturing Co., 1883. First edition. 12mo., 220 pp., illustrations, (12) pp. adverts. Original gilt-titled ribbed cloth over bevelled boards, titled in gilt on the upper cover; with complimentary label of The Photographic Times, American Photographer, and the Scovill Manufacturing Company affixed to the front pastedown. A slight..... More
Paris: A. Gaudin, 1859. Third edition. 8vo., 600 pp., 128 illustrations on 10 folding pages, including 1chromolithograph, 5 photolithographs. Quarter morocco, marbled paper over boards, gilt on spine largely rubbed away. Some expert conservation to upper spine, slight wear at tips, modern dealer stamp on half-title, top blank corner of..... More
Boston: Boston University Art Gallery, 1994. First edition. Small 4to., [5], 44 pp., b&w plates from photographs. Photo-illustrated stiff wrappers. Price sticked on rear wrapper; near fine. Documentary photography and the African American experience by Kim Sichel; Seeing ourselves by Edmund Barry Gaither. African Americans in Boston: a demographic survey..... More