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
(Gettysburg: (William Culp Darrah - Times and News Pub. Co., 1964). First edition. 8vo., xii, 255 pp., illustrations. Gilt-titled cloth. A very light bruise to the lower front board tip, else a near fine copy in gilt-titled blue cloth; issued without a dust jacket. SIGNED by the author. A pioneering..... More
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
Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. Second printing. Thick 8vo., xii, 494 pp., b&w illustrations from photographs and drawings. Remainder line on bottom edge; else fine in illustrated stiff wrappers. "Women's Camera Work explores how photographs have been and are used to construct versions of history and examines how photographic representations..... More
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
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
Amsterdam: Fragment Uitgeverij and Rotterdam: Het Museum, 1989. First ed. Small 4to., 192 pp., numerous b&w photos. Photo mounted to front of stiff paper boards. Moderate soiling to the edges and title page. Very good in pictorial dust jacket. A survey of the commercial photographers and studios in Netherlands East..... More
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
Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1888. First edition in French. Small 4to., xiv, 221 pp., mounted phototypie frontispiece, numerous illustrations. New custom binding of quarter cloth and decorative paper over boards, printed spine label. The frontispiece mount is chipped at the edges, toning and occasional ex-library stamps in the margin. A...... More
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
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Paris: Impr. Nationale, 1880. First edition. 8vo., 67 pp. Original printed wrappers, which are toned at the edges, with a few chips and creases. Text is unopened. INSCRIBED by the author. Alphonse Davanne is a most important figure in the early history of photography. Born 1824 in Paris, he was..... More
Paris: Publisher not identified, [1900]. First edition. 4to. [28 cm. x 19 cm], 102 pp., portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrations in text, 10 plates with tissue guards (1 of these in color). Original printed wrappers. Neat ownership signature of a member of the jury of classe 5 on the..... More
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Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Ediciones en Foco, [2019]. First edition. 8vo., 129 pp., 25 color plates, errata sheet laid-in. Color illustrated stiff wrappers with printed inner flaps. Fine, as new. In this new bibliography, Roberto A. Ferrari has greatly expanded upon his Bibliografia de Publicaciones Argentinas con Fotografías Montadas [1864..... More
Buenos Aires, Argentina: Editorial Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2010. First edition. 8vo., 73 pp., b&w illustrations, plus 1 CD-ROM. Color illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine, as new. With dogged determination, Roberto A. Ferrari tracked down Daguerre's copy of his original contract with Niépce, which was housed in the..... More
Paris: Victor Masson / Langlois et Leclercq, 1853. Second edition, revised and enlarged. 12mo., xi, 486 pp., illustrations in text. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled paper over boards; previous owner's neat ex-libris affixed to the front pastedown. Very good. Contains a lengthy (120 pp.) chapter on the discovery of the..... More
Berkeley: University of California, 1988. First edition. 4to., xi, 361 pp., numerous b&w photos. Pictorial stiff wrappers. A fine, as new copy. Portrays America in the last years of the Great Depression and the first years of World War II in nearly three hundred images by Lange, Delano, Evans, Vachon..... More
Austin: Published in cooperation with the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center and the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery by the University of Texas Press, 1985. First edition. 4to., x, 164 pp., numerous b&w photos. Pictorial paper over boards. A very good copy. Published in conjunction with an exhibition. More
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1858. First edition. 4to., [3], 198 pp. The cloth binding is lightly faded; lacking front endpaper, front hinge slightly loose, board tips curled, and lightly foxed. Good. Provides a brief history of the "discovery of the beautiful art of photography"; Wedgwood, Niépce, Daguerre and Talbot..... More
Florence: Fratelli Alinari, 1993 and 1998. First edition. 8vo., 225 pp., b&w and color photographs. Housed in publisher's cloth slipcase and boxed with 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.) Accompanying CD-ROM entitled: La fotografia, una storia per immagini : Fratelli Alinari, 1852-2000. (Florence: Fratelli Alinari, 1998). Fine, as new..... More
NY: MOMA, 1981. First edition. Oblong 8vo., 152 pp., 82 plates (9 in color), 38 reference illustrations. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine. INSCRIBED by the author. More
NY: Pantheon, 1982. First American ed., expanded from the catalogue published by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 4to., 59 pp., plus 108 b&w photographic illustrations. A fine, as new copy in illustrated stiff wrappers. More
Boston: Boston Book & Art Shop, 1962. First American edition. 4to., 258 pp., 244 full-page b&w plates. Previous owner's neat signature on the blank front free flyleaf, else very good in dust jacket. More
Buenos Aires: Abadía Editora, 1986. First edition. Oblong 4to., 180 pp., b&w illustrations from photographs and facsimiles. Photo-illustrated stiff wrappers, which are lightly rubbed; internally fine. An excellent historical survey which includes an extensive biographical listing of practitioners and bibliography. Text in Spanish. More
NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1984. First edition. 4to., 247 pp., over 330 color and b&w photo-illustrations. Silver-titled black cloth. A fine copy in illustrated dust jacket. A comprehensive survey, one of the first to cover this important field; the author identifies the dominant forces and the leading figures in each..... More
Washington, D. C. National Gallery of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1989. First edition. Oblong folio, xviii, 510 pp., hundreds of photos in color and b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Very good. A massive exhibition catalog, with text and bibliography by Sarah Greenough, Joel Snyder, David Travis, and Colin Westerbeck..... More