NY: Scovill Manufacturing Company, 1887. First edition. 8vo., 136 pp., frontispiece portrait, plus xxvi pp. illustrated adverts. Publisher's brown cloth decorated in gilt and black, slightly rubbed at the front hinge and the base of the spine and tips. Handwritten on front pastedown is "Orange Camera Club" with no other..... More

NY: Columbia University Press, 1937. First edition. 8vo., [109] pp., original illustrated yellow front wrapper. With: AUTHORS AND SHORT TITLE INDEX (TO THE) EPSTEAN COLLECTION: BOOKS ON PHOTOGRAPHY AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN THE GRAPHIC ARTS IN THE RARE BOOK DEPARTMENT OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. [NY: Columbia University Library, 1938]. Corrected..... More

London: John Joseph Griffin & Co. and Richard Griffin and Co., Glagow, 1853. Third edition, enlarged. 8vo., hand-colored frontispiece with tissue guard, x, 321 pp., [18] pp. catalogue of instruments, illustrated with numerous engravings. Later binding of half calf and marbled paper over boards, new endpapers. Very good. Robert Hunt..... More

London and Glasgow: Richard Griffin and Company, 1854. Fourth edition, revised. 8vo., [ix] adverts, series title page, chromolithograph frontispiece, xii, 329 pp., [2] pp. adverts, 87 b&w engraved figures, 1 b&w engraved chapter vignette. May, 1854 CATALOGUE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS bound into rear and partially loose Publisher's blind embossed cloth..... More

Boston: Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1850. Daguerre. First American edition. 12mo., 388 pp., [24] pp. adverts. Decoratively blind-embossed cloth; gilt-titled spine is lacking the top and bottom inch and been laid-down on new cloth. Ex-library and withdrawn from an academic library with their bookplate affixed to the front pastedown and..... More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, Imprimeurs Libraires, Éditeurs de la Bibliothèque Photographique, 1889. First edition. 12mo., vi, 26 pp., (12) pp. publisher's catalog. Newly added facsimile wrappers. A fine copy. Sewn in at rear is the publisher's "Catalogue de Photographie."Roosens and Salu No. 3047. More

(Paris? Imprimerie Nationale? / L'Académie des Sciences, 1875?). Folio, 187 pp., illustrations. Contemporary pastepaper over boards, newly rebacked in morocco with spine label in gilt. Light foxing on first and last few leaves, else very good. An offprint from MÉMOIRES PRÉSENTES PAR DIVERS SAVANTS A L'ACADÉMIE DES SCIENCES DE L'INSTITUT..... More

Boston: The American Photographic Publishing Co., 1945. Second printing. 8 vo., 514 pp., diagrams. A near fine copy. Boni p. 59: "An indispensable supplement to E.J. Wall History of Three Color Photography (1925), particularly valuable for its extensive analytical treatment of patent disclosures." More

NY: Viking Press, 1982. Brassai. First edition. 4to., 224 pp., numerous b&w photos. Fine in cloth with the near fine illustrated dust jacket. Brassaï's memoir of over fifty years of friendship with twenty great artists and art dealers, including: Picasso, Miró, Matisse, Maillol, Giacometti, Dali, Léger, Le Corbusier, Bonnard, and..... More

NY: Artemis Project, 1984. First edition. Oblong 8vo., 108 pp., chiefly illustrated from b&w photographs. Photo-illustratd stiff wrappers. The wrappers and foredge are lightly foxed,; else very good. More

19 ring binders and bound notebooks of varying sizes, containing thousands of pages of notes, figures, graphs and formulas, in holograph, typescript and printed form, pertaining to all aspects of the chemical analysis of various clays, and the manufacture of ceramics, with particular attention to porcelain and its glazes, and..... More

Buffalo: Self published, 1972. Krims, Les. First edition. 6 x 5 1/2 inches, 2 folded pages of text, with 10 loose plates from photographs. Housed in hinged box with mounted plate from a photograph. One small faint spot on the cover image and a tiny spot of rubbing to the..... More

NY: Abbeville Press, 1988. First edition. Fine in stiff wrappers. More