Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1862. First edition. Thick 8vo., 367 pp., illustrations in text. Contemporary binding of half morocco and marbled paper over boards, spine titled and decorated in gilt. Spine, tips and edges rubbed, lacking a few chips to the marbled paper; faint scattered foxing and soil; else very good..... More
London: D. Bogue, 1854. Fourth edition. Small 4to., xi, 144 pp., color frontispiece with tissue guard, 9 monochrome plates, plus 6 leaves of mixed tints. Publisher's cloth stamped decoratively in blind with gilt title on spine; slightly frayed at the foot and short tear at the crown. The frontispiece is..... More
NY: The Scovill & Adams Company, 1892. First edition. 8vo., vii, 426 pp., illustrated. The publisher's cloth binding is illustrated in gilt and black. The front fly and first blank are detatched; rear hinge open but firm. Very Good. A technical manual covering several platinum processes and their chemistry; calotypes..... More
Angers: Imprimerie de P. Lachèse, 1866. Dollé, M. Maurice. First edition. Small 4to., 88 pp., [3] leaves of mounted albumen plates ofa possible 6. Printed original wrappers with a new paper spine; wear, short tears and light chipping to edges of the wrappers; scattered light foxing to the text. The..... More
Paris: Gauthiers-Villars, 1887. First edition. 8vo., ix, 193 pp., 3 mounted plates (1 in color) prior to title-page with a printed tissue guard, text illustrations, plus 2 original mounted photographs. New front wrapper and spine; original rear wrapper retained. Text block toned with a few small chips lacking from blank..... More
London: Gregory Printers, 1884. Eighth edition. Small 8vo., 48 pp., plus 40 pp. "Stanley's Photographic Catalogue," illustrations. The front cover of the illustrated paper wrappers has been mounted to new paper wrappers. Housed in a custom made cloth and decorative paper four point folder. Very good. A well illustrated manual..... More
Paris: L'Auteur, 1855. First edition. 8vo., ii, 312 pp., illustrated with 90 engravings. Printed paper wrappers. A small hole in the rear wrapper has been patched; general light staining, foxing, else very good. Housed in cloth clamshell cox with printed spine label. A detailed review of electroplating techniques, including daguerreotype..... More
Philadelphia: Edward L. Wilson, 1883. First U.S. edition. 8vo., 368 pp., Artotype print portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, 72 wood-engraved illustrations. Publisher's blind decorated cloth titled in gilt on the spine. Lacking the blank front free endpaper; very good. Vogel was one of the most prolific writers and chemists of..... More
Halle a.S. Wilhelm Knapp, 1893. First edition. 8vo., 157 pp. Printed paper wrappers, which are edge-chipped, lacking a portion of the adverts on the rear wrapper and with a new spine. Ex-library with the stamp of Dr. Eder's library and the Eastman Kodak, Kodak Park Library. Housed in a newly..... More
Durham, N. C. Trinity College Press, 1924. First edition. 8vo., [ii], xi, 250 pp. Publisher's navy cloth, titled in gilt along the spine. Moderate wear with a small droplet stain along the foredge of 20 pages, a few pencil markings. Very good. The copy of Guy B. [Benton] Johnson, signed..... More
London: Ernest Benn, [1929]. First edition. 8vo., 183 pp., 6 leaves of plates. Cloth. Pencil sketch on rear blank endpaper; else very good. Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, 1828-1914, was an English physicist and chemist who invented the Autotype (a carbon process), and the dry photographic plate, which was an important..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1901. Second ed. (entirely revised). Small 8vo., viii, 74 [2] pp., illustrations in text. Publisher's decorative paper wrappers. Spine cover chipped, with text block split at mid-section; unopened. A good copy. Gabriel Lippman was the inventor of interference process. Variant wrappers from previous copies... More
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. First edition. thick 4to., xxi, 769 pp., profusely illustrated from b&w and some color photographs. Fine, as new in dust jacket, sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap. From the Publisher: This is the first Oxford Companion to deal with the subject of photography. It..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1898. Demachy, Robert. First French edition. 8vo., 76 pp., illustrated. Printed paper wrappers, which are lightly soiled, scufed, with a worn and chipped spine, old stamps; a good copy. The gum bichromate, or pigment process by two of the leading Pictorialists. Roosens and Salu No. 7915..... More
Leipzig & Berlin: Verlagsbuchhandlung Von Otto Spamer, 1864. First German edition. 8vo., xii, 417 pp., wood engravings, 6 pp. adverts. Gilt decorated with a photographic motif and blind-stamped morocco, rebacked with a new morocco spine with label. Toned at the edges with occasional foxing. A very good copy. This is..... More
Liepzig: Ed. Liesegangs Verlag, M. Eger, 1915. First edition. 8vo., 132 pp., 15 b&w photographic plates, 19 illustrations in text, [8] adverts. Original decorative wrappers lightly chipped with tears at the spine. Near very good. A comprehensive manual of the bromoil process, which was favored by the Pictorialists. Photographic plates..... More
Paris: Gauthiers-Villars et Fils, 1896. First edition. 4to., 48, [1] pp., 6 leaves of plates (one in color), with printed tissue guards, and illustrations in text. Printed paper wrappers. The wrappers are partially chipped along the spine; creased and worn at the corners and edges, some rubbing. Largely unopened. Very..... More
Paris: Charles Mendel, [1899]. First edition. 8vo., (iv), 69 [2] pp., b&w plates. Black linen with the title and library numbers in gilt on the spine. Old library stamps throughout, else very good. Discusses and uses plates from Louis Boutan whose, LA PHOTOGRAPHIE SOUS-MARINE ET LES PROGRÈS DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE..... More
Ellstree, Herts. [England]: Wellington & Ward, 190? Fifteenth edition. 12mo., 153 pp., text illustrations, b&w photos. Gilt-titled cloth. Some staining to cloth, one photo plate loose and laid in. A good copy. Manufacturers of photographic supplies, this manual suggests which type of Wellington equipment to use - plates, paper and..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1905. First ed. 8vo., ix, 79 pp., illustrated with diagrams. Printed paper wrappers with a small rubbed spot on the front. A very good copy and unopened. This manual provides a theory of shutters and a mathematical analysis of their function. OCLC only locates a single copy at..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1879. 8vo., 34 pp., illustrated. Printed paper wrappers, rubbed and worn. Dampstained. A survey of photography and review of photomechanical techniques including Woodburytype, Photoglyphe, photogravure, photolithography and photochemistry. More
Paris: Gauthiers-Villars, 1882. First edition. 12mo., 42 pp., plus publisher's catalogue. The printed paper wrappers are edge-chipped and toned; spine repaired. There istoning and scattered foxing, otherwise in very good condition as well as unopened. HOUSED IN A NEWLY MADE PAMPHLET CASE OF CLOTH WITH PRINTED PAPER LABEL. A thorough..... More
London: John Joseph Griffin & Co., 1851. [second edition, revised]. 8vo., series title, x, 2 engravings, 234 pp., [10] pp. catalogue of photographic apparatus dated July, 1851. Numerous illustrations. Original decoratively blind-stamped red cloth. Newly rebacked with printed paper label on spine, tips rounded. General soiling, occasional chemical stains and..... More
London: H. Fisher, Son, and Co., [1832]. Seventh edition. Thick 4to., [2], 2 pp., iv, 1066 pp., engraved frontispiece, plates, maps, text illustrations. Contemporary half calf and decoratively embossed cloth; elaborately decorated in gilt on the spine. Dampstain to the corner of approx. half of the leaves, occasional foxing, front..... More
London: Printed at the Caxton Press, by Henry Fisher, 1824. Sixth ed. 2 volumes. 8vos., [vol. I] x, 496 pp., frontispiece with tissue guard; [vol. II] vi, 472 pp., frontispiece; illustrated by 108 copperplate engravings, many folding. Publisher's original paper over boards with printed spine labels, spines chipped. A very..... More