Paris: Charles Mendel, [1903]. First ed. Small 8vo., viii, 9-160 pp., illustrations. Quarter morocco and marbled paper over boards. Blank margins toned; a very good copy. A manual for small camera, instantaneous and reportage photography, including: selecting equipment and subjects, making and processing plates, etc. Roosens and Salu No. 5330... 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: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1874. First edition. 12mo., (iv), 331 pp., photoglyptie (Woodburytype) frontispiece, 65 engraved illustrations. Newly bound in half navy morocco and marbled paper over boards with the original printed wrappers bound in. Several of the leaves have a creased corner, with a few showing some damage..... 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, 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, 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, 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: Victor Masson et fils, 1865. First edition. 8vo., 122 pp., 10 b&w wood engravings. Paper wrappers with some chipping at edges and a new paper spine; text foxed, with a faint tidemark to the first 50 pages. Housed in new clamshell box of linen with paper label. Very good..... 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
Bruxelles: Éditions Lebeer-Hossmann, [1970s]. First edition. 12mo., 95 leaves, [90] b&w plates from photographs. Photo-illustrated stiff wrappers. Slight bump at the crown and light soiling and wear to the wrappers. A very good copy. A collection of photographs by and of Magritte and his circle. More
Carmel, CA: The Friends of Photography, 1985. Walker, Todd. First ed. 4to., 47 pp., 34 color photographs. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. Issued as UNTITLED 38. More
Yonkers, NY: Hudson River Museum, 1973. First edition. 4to., (10) pp., plus over 70 b&w and color photo-plates, (1) p. list of plates. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Near fine. Contains short biographies about and photos by: Todd Walker, Benno Friedman, Oscar Bailey, Emmet Gowin, Barbara Morgan, Mark Cohen, Frederick Sommer, Robert..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1895. First edition. Small 4to., vii, 158 pp., 17 illustrations, 8 plates with tissue guards. Newly bound in paper over boards with paper labels on front and spine, with the original printed paper wrappers bound in. The wrappers are a trifle dusty and rubbed in one..... More
Paris: Librairie des Auteurs et de l'Académie des Bibliophiles, 1867. Niépce, Nicéphore. First edition. 8vo., 282 pp., portrait frontispiece. The original printed paper wrappers are chipped along the foredge and bottom with a new spine cover added; tips bumped. A very good copy housed in a newly made clamshell box..... More
Paris: Roret, 1843. First edition. 16mo., 453 pp., 2 large folding engraved plates. Contemporary quarter calf with morocco label, titled with simple decorations in gilt. Joints slightly rubbed; the foredge of the first plate is a bit soiled, foxed and worn with no loss. Faint foxing on the title page..... More
Paris: Se Trouve Chez L'Auteur, 1855. First edition. 8vo., 46 pp. Later binding of gray cloth with a leather title label on the spine. Ex-library, from the Bibliothek der Graphischen Lehr - und Versuchsanstal Wein, with their stamp, deaccession stamp and catalogue number on the blank upper margin of the..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1883. Second edition. 8vo., xiv, 280 pp., errata, phototypie portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. Quarter cloth and marbled paper over boards, titled in gilt on the spine. Occasional light foxing, board and spine edges lightly rubbed; else very good. Alphonse Louis Poitevin (1819 - 1882) was trained as..... More
Paris: Librairie de Firmin Deidot Frères, Fils et Cie, 1867 - 1868. First edition. 2 volumes bound as one. 8vo., iii, 431, [1]; 377, errata, [1]; 8 plates (some folding), of which 5 are color printed, other illustrations in text. Aside from occasional faint foxing, a fine and complete work..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1927. First edition. 12mo., xvi, 1029 pp. Publisher's navy blue cloth, titled in gilt on the spine. Tears at the spine ends, tips rubbed through; a well used copy. Beaumont Newhall's copy, SIGNED with his pencil signature on the front free flyleaf, dated 1932. Additionally..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1876. First edition. 12mo., 63 pp., [1], [6] adverts. Printed wrappers, which are soiled and creased, scattered foxing to the text; otherwise very good. A history of the earliest research into three-color photography, with emphasis on the work of Ducos du Haron, and Dumoulin's own improvements upon the..... More
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1845. First U.S. edition. First U.S. ed. 16 mo., 60 pp.; 48 pp., illustrated with woodcuts. Publisher's cloth decorated in blind and gilt. Spine ends chipped, with light rubbing at the tips and scattered foxing. A very good copy. Fisher, an assistant in the Laboratory of..... More
London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., and Horne and Thornthwaite, 1857. Fourteenth edition. 12mo., [iv], 65; p. [66] -68, 89-120 pp., woodcut illustrations in text, adverts. Original printed paper over boards, possibly later rebacked with cloth. Old collection and library stamps. The covers are stained and rubbed; there are small stains..... More
Paris: Marchal Billard & Cie, 1881. First edition. Small 8vo., 58 [2] pp. Printed paper wrappers; the blank lower tip of the front is lacking. A very good copy, partially unopened. An early, and primary, legal discussion regarding protecting the propriety of photographs through legal recourse. Roosens and Salu No..... More
Paris: Gauthiers-Villars, 1911. First edition. Small 8vo., viii, 111 pp., a few text illustrations. Publisher's printed paper wrappers, which are lacking a few small chips at the spine ends, and a few creases to wrappers. A very good unopened copy. A review and manual for the autochrome process. Roosens and..... More
London: John W. Parker and Son, 1853. 8vo., 485-610 pp., plus illustrated adverts. Original printed paper wrappers; a one-inch portion of the lower spine has been repaired with matching paper, lower blank tip of the front wrapper lacking, as is a short piece near the top. Very good. Housed in..... More