Saint - Quentin (Aisne): J. Moureau et Fils, 1883. First edition. 8vo., (iv), 12 pp., 3 color illustrations (chromotypes) Decorative stiff paper wrappers. Edges browned and worn. A good copy. An example of using watercolors to highlight the printing of illustrations in the color relief process. Scarce. OCLC locates a single..... More
Paris: MM. Puech, [1884]. First edition. 8vo., 15 pp. Printed wrappers. Near fine. Eder discusses, in his chapter "Film Photography and the Rapid Growth of Amateur Photography," (HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY) the advantages of using light sensitive paper over glass plates and lists the various inventors who advanced the processes. He..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1880. First ed. 12mo., 86 pp. Newly bound in half morocco and marbled paper over boards, with gilt-titled morocco label on spine. Occasional foxing, else very good. Instructions for the preparation of sensitized dry collodion plates (the tannin process); preparing printing papers, and helpful hints offering shortcuts in..... More
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green and John Taylor, 1833. A New Edition. 12mo., x, 383, [1] pp.,with engraved illustrated title page, diagrams and illustrations in text. Original cloth with worn paper label on spine. Faded at edges; slight fraying at the spine ends; a very good..... More
Edinburgh: Banks & Co., n.d. [ca. 1880]. Oblong 8vo., illustrated title page, plus 18 engraved plates with blank tissue guards, 8 pp., text. Decorated cloth. Dark stains to cloth; engraved plates are fine. A book of engravings by a firm established in 1826, from plates made by William Banks, founder..... More
Edinburgh: Banks & Co., n.d. [ca. 1880]. Oblong 8vo., unpaged, illustrated title page, 16 engraved plates. Gilt and blind-stamped cloth, a.e.g. Dark splatter stains to cloth, short tear to cloth at the rear joint, dampstain to blank corner of the leaves, not affecting the engravings. A good copy. A book..... More
Edinburgh: Banks & Co., n.d. [ca. 1880]. Oblong 8vo., unpaged, illustrated title page, 15 engraved plates with blank paper guards. Gilt and blind-stamped cloth, a.e.g. a few dark splatter stains to cloth, dampstain on corner of the engraved itle page, else fine. A book of engravings by a firm established..... More
Paris: F. Savy; J. Rothschild, 1862. First edition. Small 8vo., 460 pp., illustrations. Printed paper wrappers. Dampstain to fore edge and lower corners of several leaves; ex-library stamp; scattered light foxing. The wrappers have been expertly repaired and a new spine has been applied, otherwise a very good, unopened copy..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1877. First edition. 8vo., vi, 210 pp., illustrated. Printed paper wrappers which are chipped at the bottom edge; rebacked with a new paper spine. Ex-library stamp on the front wrapper and title page; scattered foxing. A good copy which is unopened. Provides a detailed review of photographic processes..... More
London: John Murray, 1834. Second edition. 16mo., viii, 351 pp., over 80 text illustrations. Printed cloth over boards. The binding has been expertly rebacked with the original printed spine laid-down, new endpapers were added. Very good. Written shortly before the introduction of photography, this book discusses vision, optics, optical illusions..... More
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green and John Taylor, 1831. First edition. 12mo., [8 adverts], x, 383 pp.,with an engraved illustrated title page, 176 illustrations in text. Original cloth with chipped paper label on spine. Cloth slightly faded at edges, occasional light foxing, else very good. Part..... More
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1846. Fourth ed. 2 volumes. 12mo., [vol. I] xxiii, 528 pp.; [vol. II] xii, 548 pp.; each with engraved portrait frontispieces. Half calf and marbled boards. The tips are rubbed; light foxing to portraits and title page. A very good copy. A vast survey including information..... More
Paris: Editions Marval, 1982. First edition. 4to., 98 pp., illustrated from b&w photographs and graphics, with [4] pp. from color photographs. Wire spiral bound heavy gray boards with printed label on the upper cover. Light soil to the printed label; else fine. Through a series of images on the inhabitants..... More
Los Angeles: Melrose, 1984. First edition. 4to., 135 pp., chiefly illustrated from color photographs. Slight bump to the upper board tips; else near fine in the photo-illustrated dust jacket. Award winning photo-illustrator whose images have appeared in Vogue, Esquire, Life, Look and Geo. More
[Rochester]: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1977. First edition. Oblong 4to., [22] leaves of b&w photomontage images. Color printed stiff wrappers. Fine. A humorous look the photographer's family gatherings. OCLC locates eleven copies. 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 to the wrappers. A very good copy. A collection of photographs by and of Magritte and his circle. More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1887. Second French edition. Small 8vo., xiv, 98 pp., mounted photo frontispiece, illustrations. Gilt-titled cloth. The binding and endsheets are dampstained; text toned and brittle with a short closed tear to the blank margin of the first free-flyleaf to the half-title page. The printed tissue guard for the..... More
London: British Periodicals; Philadelphia: Frank V. Chambers, [1928]. Second impression. 12mo., 44 pp., adverts. Printed stiff wrappers. The covers were repaired with cellophane tape which aged and cracked, leaving the wrappers detached. A good copy. A practical manual on the Oil, Bromoil, and their derivatives, Oil and Bromoil Transfer. Roosens and..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1901. First edition. 12mo., vi, 27 pp., frontispiece, adverts. Printed paper wrappers which are slightly scuffed on the front, with an illegible small ink stamp on the rear. Blindstamped "Homage" on the half-title page. Very good. Publisher's promotional flyer laid in. Roosens and Salu No. 1171... More
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[n.p. Keith Smith], March 1966. Edition 8 of 11. Original photo-etching, 4 in. (10 cm.) height x 3 in. ( 7.5 cm.) width, printed on square woven paper 7 1/4 in. Tipped to a heavier Strathmore paper with a window. SIGNED, titled and dated in pencil beneath the image. Fine..... More
Each photograph measures 9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm.) width x 7 11/16 in. (19.5 cm.) height. Each has a printed paper label from the Ministry of Information affixed to the blank verso; beneath it is stamped "Cecil Beaton Photograph." Slight silvering to each at the bottom right corner; one print..... More
[San Francisco]: Sun in Scorpio/ Flash Publications, 1993. Gatewood, Charles. First edition. 4to., 64 unnumbered pages, full-page b&w plates from photos. Fine, as new in photo-illustrated dust jacket. Limited to 2000 numbered copies, SIGNED. A compilation from Gatewood's various "bodies" of work: Sidetripping in New Orleans, pierced bodies, tattoos, and..... More
Paris: La Librairie Encyclopédique De Roret, 1858. First edition. 12mo., vi, 456 pp., 90 pp. adverts., illustrations in text. Recent calf backed marbled paper over boards with the spine in six compartments and titled in gilt, illustrated original wrappers bound-in, with the top corner of the rear wrapper expertly replaced..... More
New York: Alfred Stieglitz, 1904. Four pages of a bifolium, 7 x 6 inches, on the letterhead of The Photo-Secession, dated May 20 - 04. Slight smudging to the 0 in the date line; an early fold and a few light creases; otherwise near fine. In the December 1903, Obrig..... More
Paris: Amyot, [1861]. First edition. 8vo., 330 pp., 65 illustrations in text. Contemporary quarter leather with title and decorations in gilt with marbled paper over boards; edges and hinges rubbed; contents clean and very good. Presented in nine parts: the first part offers a comprehensive history starting with Euclid to..... More