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: 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

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

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: 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: 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: 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

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

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: 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

NY: Scovill Manufacturing Co., 1882. First edition. 8vo., 92 pp., original mounted albumen photographic frontispiece, engraved figures in text, 1 engraved plate, [11] pp. adverts. Pencil underline on the title page, small dampstain at the top blank margin of the engraved plate. Near fine. [bound with] Taylor, J. Traill. THE..... More

[Paris]: Aux Bureaux D'Abonnement et de Vente, 1839. First edition. 4to., 412 pp.,profusely illustrated with engravings. Bound in the publisher's illustrated paper over boards with cloth spine. Tips and edges rubbed and lightly soiled; moderate foxing. Very good. Contains the article "La Photographie, ou le Daguerréotype" [374-376 pp.] illustrated with..... More

NY: Tennant and Ward, 1936. First English language edition. 8vo., x, 272 pp. Publisher's cloth. Endpapers slightly darkened, else very good. Georges Potonniée, a French photohistorian, set out to correct the record concerning the discovery and early history of photography - before his HISTOIRE DE LA DÉCOUVERTE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE..... More