[Saskatoon: Association of Canadian Archivists], 1978. First edition. 8vo., 256 pp., b&w illustrations from photographs. Illustrated stiff wrappers, which are lightly rubbed; very good. Articles include: The Photographic Record of Pre-Confederation British Columbia by Joan M. Schwartz; Alexander Henderson: Nineteenth-Century Landscape Photographer by Stanley G. Triggs; Photographic Documentation and Buildings..... More

(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

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

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

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

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

København: Nationale Fotomuseum, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, 2002. First edition. 8vo., 103 pp., illustrated from b&w and color photographs and paintings. Color illustrated stiff wrappers with a photographically illustrated over wrapper. Fine. Published as the catalogue for the exhibition at the Nationale Fotomuseum, Denmark, August 29 - October 26, 2002. The..... 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

Paris: Gauthier-Villars; Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1886, 1888. First editions. Small 4tos., [vol. I] xv [1], 467 pp., mounted carbon frontispiece (lacking the printed tissue guard), 1 full-page b&w collotype after a photo, with tissue guard, 120 text illustrations (including mounted color chart); [vol. II] xiii, 573 pp., photogravure frontispiece with..... More

Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1862. First edition. Thick 8vo., 367 pp., illustrations in text. Contemporary binding of half morocco and marbled paper over boards, spine titled and decorated in gilt. Spine, tips and edges rubbed, lacking a few chips to the marbled paper; faint scattered foxing and soil; else very good..... 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

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

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