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 about IL VIAGGIO DELL'ICONONAUTA DALLA CAMERA OSCURA DI LEONARDO ALLA LUCE DEI LUMIÈRE

Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, 1980. Talbot, Fox. First edition. 4to., 216 pp., hundreds of illustrations. A fine copy in the illustrated dust jacket that has one tiny closed tear. SIGNED by the author on the title page. A well researched and essential reference for the study of one of... More about FOX TALBOT AND THE INVENTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY

(London): Hurtwood Press in association with The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983. First edition. 4to., 112 pp., 37 b&w and color plates, text illustrations. One board tip has a tiny bump, else a very good copy in lightly scuffed dust jacket. A guide to the major photographic processes from 1840... More about A GUIDE TO EARLY PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1975. First edition. 4to., x, 180 pp., 110 b&w plates. A fine copy in a near fine pictorial dust jacket. These essays by twenty-one internationally known authorities in the field cover many facets of the history of photography. Essayists include: J. Adhémar, T. Barrow..... More about ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF BEAUMONT NEWHALL

NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, [1988]. First edition. 4to., 56 pp., 33 b&w photographs. Illustrated stiff wrappers. One tip bumped. Very good. Represented: Man Ray, Strand, Hine, Sheeler, Stieglitz, Rodchenko, Weston, Renger-Patzsch, Sander, Tabard, Umbo, Moholy-Nagy, Atget, Bellmer, Model, etc. More about PHOTOGRAPHY BETWEEN THE WARS: SELECTIONS FROM THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY COLLECTION

Paris: Georges Carré et C. Naud, 1898. First edition. 8vo., 186 pp., 40 pp. publisher's catalog at end. Cloth over flexible boards. A near fine copy. Letters and papers by these first inventors of photography, with annotations and comments by Colson; includes bibliographical footnotes. Texts in French. An early anthology... More about MÉMOIRES ORIGINAUX DES CRÉATEURS DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE: NICÉPHORE NIÉPCE, DAGUERRE, BAYARD,...

NY: Abrams with the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1978. First edition. Oblong 4to., 272 pp., 172 b&w photos. Two-toned cloth with mounted photo. Fine. Issued without a dust jacket. A chronological illustrated history of the photographers who documented the discovery and expansion of the west. They include, Watkins... More about PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE OLD WEST.; Photographs selected and printed by William R. Current

Gettysburg, PA: W.C. Darrah, Publisher, 1977. First edition. 4to., 246 pp., 301 color and b&w illustrations. A fine copy in dust jacket that is lacking a samll chip on the front panel and has a tiny tear at the spine. Regarded as the best single volume historical survey. More about THE WORLD OF STEREOGRAPHS

NY: Rizzoli International Publications, 1982. First U.S. ed. Folio, 269 pp., 90 color and 238 b&w illustrations. Near fine in dust jacket. A survey of photography as a medium of artistic expression and achievement from its prehistory in the 1820s to the photo-artists of the 1980s. More about PHOTOGRAPHY: HISTORY OF AN ART

Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1974. First American ed. 4to., 128 pp., photos. Fine in pictorial dust jacket. Boldly SIGNED by the author on the title page. Presents documentary photographs made with calotype and wetplate cameras through to the beginning of dry plate (ca. 1884); includes work by Fenton... More about REALITY RECORDED: EARLY DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY

Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1968. Easterly, Thomas M. Offprint - Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Missouri Historical Society, July 1968. 8vo., p. 329 - 339, 10 reproductions from photographs. Printed paper wrappers. Near fine. Thomas M. Easterly was a daguerreotypist based in St. Louis, who began making photographs of Native... More about THOMAS M. EASTERLY'S PIONEER DAGUERREOTYPES OF PLAINS INDIANS

Halle a.d. Saale: Wilhelm Knapp, 1913. First edition. 4to., (i), 187 pp., 7 plates and facsmiles. Printed stiff wrappers which are chipped at the foredge and along the spine with partial separation, but holding firm. Internally, a very good and unopened copy. A survey of early writings concerning photography, from... More about QUELLENSCHRIFTEN ZU DEN FRÜHESTEN ANFÄNGEN DER PHOTOGRAPHIE BIS ZUM XVIII. JAHRHUNDERT:;...

NY: Clarkson N. Potter, 1979. First edition. Clarkson N. Potter, 1979. First ed. Oblong 4to., xx, 131 pp., 130 photos, plus (8 pp.) chronology, bibliography, indices. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket that has one tiny closed tear. A comprehensive collection of early travel photos from Cairo to Nubia. More about UP THE NILE, A PHOTOGRAPHIC EXCURSION: EGYPT, 1839-1898