Nevada City, California: Carl Mautz Publishing, 2002. First edition. Oblong 4to., 119 pp., illustrated from b&w drawings. Fine in the illustrated dust jacket. A chronologic listing of: Invention Patents, Reissued Invention Patents, and Design Patents. More
Venezia: Marsilio, 1997. First edition. 8vo., 517 pp., [122] illustration in color and b&w from photographs and drawings. Color illustrated stiff wrappers with printed inner flaps. A very good copy. An exhaustive history of the projected image prior to the advent of cinema and the mechanisms employed. Includes extensive notes... More
Hermance, Switzerland: Editions Camera Obscura, 1985. First edition. 2 volumes, 4to., 837 pp., illustrated from b&w photographs, and facsimile signatures. Photo-illustrated glossy paper over boards; lightly rubbed. Very good. A comprehensive, bilingual (French and English) encyclopedia which includes a photograph of the photographers, their signature, chronology exhibition list and bibliography. More
NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1992. First edition. Oblong 4to., 127 pp., chiefly illustrated from color and b&w photographs. Fine, in photo-illustrated dust jacket that has a subtle indenture on the front panel. Bodly SIGNED by the photographer on the title page. Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Larry Sultan... More
Paris: Librairie j.-b. Baillière et fils, 1887. First edition. 8vo., half-title, [1] advert, 106 pp., 3 - 8 adverts, with 7 leaves of plates. Original printed wrappers, with an advert on the rear wrapper. The front wrapper is edge chipped and detached with no loss of text; the rear wrapper... More
London: David Nutt, 1895. Emerson, P.H. First edition. 4to., vi, (ii) 165 pp., 16 plates with printed tissue guards. White linen, stamped with title and decorative motif, calf-backed with titling in gilt. The plates are printed on a handmade Japan vellum paper and are very fine, with all printed tissue... More
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1862. First edition. 12mo., 261 pp., [3] pp. adverts. Publisher's gilt and blind-stamped cloth, rubbed through at the tips; owners' names on the blank endpapers; lacking a corner from the blank free endpaper; occasional small stains. This manual substantially revises and enlarges upon the... More
Halle a.S. W. Knapp, 1891-1892. Second edition. 8vos., [vol. I] xii, 485 pp.; [vol. II] x, 518 pp.; [vol. III] x, 496 pp.; text illustrations. Half morocco and marbled boards. Owner's neat stamp on endpapers. The second volume has occasional marginalia in ink, holographic notes on paper which have been... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1887. Second French edition. Small 8vo., xiv, 98 pp., mounted platinum photographic frontispiece, illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Slight edge wear, creasing and moderate staining to wrappers. Very good. Housed in a custom made cloth clamshell box with facsimile paper label on front. This manual discusses Pizzighelli's newly modified... More
Philadelphia: Photographers Association of America, 1912. First edition. 16mo.,[ii], 42 pp., frontispiece with printed tissue guard, chapter heads and tails illustrated in vignette, initial caps illustrated. Printed stiff wrappers. Fine, as new. Prepared for the 32nd Annual Convention of the Photographers Association of America. The authors comprised the faculty of... More
Boulogne-sur-Mer: Imprimerie de Charles Aigre, 1858. First edition. 8vo., 22 pp., plus two folding plates. Later cloth and marbled boards. Neat library deaccession stamp of S. F. P. (Société Française de Photographie.) Tiny closed tear at the gutter between the first blank and title page. Very good. The authors offers..... More
Paris, Boulogne-sur-Mer [printed]: Chez MM. A. Gaudin et Frère, 1856. First edition. 8vo., 15 pp. Later cloth and marbled boards. Neat library deaccession stamp of S. F. P. (Société Française de Photographie.) Very good. SIGNED by the author on the copyright page. The author presents a new process for obtaining..... More
Paris: J.-B. Bailliére et Fils, 1866. First edition. 8vo., iv, 333 [3] pp., 41 text illustrations, 3 mounted albumen photo-plates. Bound with: PRÉCIS DE MICROPHOTOGRAPHIE, par G. Huberson. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1879. First ed. 100 pp., frontispiece, illustrated, 4 pp. catalogue. And bound with: PHOTOMICROGRAPHIE EN CENT TABLEAUX POUR PROJECTION, par... More
London: Printed for Thomas Boys, 1817. First edition. 8vo., half-tile, xxv, 191 pp., [with] A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE APPARATUS & INSTRUMENTS EMPLOYED IN EXPERIMENTAL AND OPERATIVE CHEMISTRY, IN ANALYTICAL MINERALOGY, AND IN THE PURSUITS OF THE RECENT DISCOVERIES OF VOLTAIC ELECTRICITY. MANUFACTURE AND SOLD BY FREDRICK ACCUM, OPERATIVE CHEMIST... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1898. First French edition. 12mo., (ii), 95 pp., frontispiece, figures in text. Printed wrappers. Near fine. The frontispiece is a facsimile of a platinotype print before and after development. Hinton was the editor of the PHOTOGRAPHIC ART JOURNAL and THE AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER. An accomplished Pictorialist, he... More
Philadelphia: Benerman & Wilson, 1875. Second edition. 8vo., xvi, [17]-389 pp., illustrated, including 4 small mounted albumen photographs. The title page is soiled; small circular hole on p. 383 - 384 (terminal leaf) with the loss of a few words Re-backed with the original spine laid-down and new endpapers supplied;... More
Leipzig: F.A. Grockhaus, 1884. Second edition. 12mo., viiii, 302 pp., mounted Woodburytype frontispiece, 5 plates (2 plates with 4 mounted Woodbury photographs, heliographic print, copper-plate print from heliograph, and map reduction plate), text illustrations. Quarter calf and tips with marbled boards. Hinges and edges rubbed, foxing on first and last... More
Paris: Amyot, 1859. First edition. 8vo., iv, 280 pp., 32 b&w figures in text. New binding of quarter morocco with tips, marbled paper over boards, five raised bands on spine, with gilt titling. Occasional foxing and soiling at the untrimmed edges; slight bump to the text at the upper tip... More
Paris: La Librairie Encyclopédique De Roret, 1862. Revised second edition. 2 volumes. 12mo., xix, 256 pp., 71 pp.; xiii, 340 pp., illustrations in text and one folding plate which is lacking a small portion. Illustrated original wrappers, chipped at edges. Stamps from the Cromer Collection on each title and vol... More
Philadelphia: Benerman & Wilson, 1871. First U.S. edition. 8vo., xx, [17]-331 pp., [1] p., (32) pp. adverts, illustrated, including 4 small mounted original albumen portrait photographs (p. 242, 244). Publisher's cloth titled in gilt on the spine. Lower board tips bumped, slight fraying at the spine ends. Chemical spotting at... More
Paris: G. Masson, 1888. First edition. 8vo., 312 pp., 3 leaves of plates with tissue guards, text illustrations. Contemporary cloth with decorative spine, t.e.g. Small numbered paper label affixed to the lower front board. Extremities lightly rubbed. A very good copy. A well-illustrated survey, which covers all areas of photography... More
Paris: Adrien Delahaye, 1865. Second edition. Thick 8vo., xiii [errata], 563 n pp., frontispiece portrait, illustrations, engraved plates, and 2 folding engraved plates. Morocco-backed marbled paper over boards. Mildly rubbed at tips, light occasional foxing. The hinges are scaped with slight cracking but firm. A near very good copy. ... More
Philadelphia: Edward L. Wilson, 1881. First ed. 8vo., 376 pp., carbon frontispiece, figures and diagrams in text. Recased in the publisher's gilt-embossed cloth. Tips and spine ends have been expertly repaired; occasional foxing, else near very good. Wilson was the editor of The Philadelphia Photographer as well as other photographic... More
NY: Edward L. Wilson, 1894. First edition. 8vo., ([viii], 530 pp., adverts at rear, diagrams, illustrations. Gilt-embossed cloth. Edge-rubbed, hinges weak. A good copy. An exhaustive encyclopedia of processes, formulae, equipment, etc. Edward Livingston Wilson [1838 - 1903) was a prolific writer on photographic technique and the founder and editor... More
Paris: E. Dentu, Libraire-Éditeur, 1861. First edition. 8vo., 47 pp. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Later cloth and marbled boards. Tips of a number of leaves creased; ex-library of the Sociéte Française de Photographie with their deaccession stamp and minimal markings. Very good. Menut Alexander Alophe, 1812 - 1883, studied under Paul..... More