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
Fort Lauderdale: Museum of Art; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; NY: Abbeville Press, 1987. First edition. 4to., 272 pp., frontis, profusely illustrated with b&w and color photos. A fine copy in dust jacket. An extensive survey based on a major exhibition of the same title; includes essays..... More
NY: Oxford University Press / International Center of Photography, 1982. First edition. 4to., xii, 198 pp., fully illustrated from color and b&w photos and other illustrations. Illustrated stiff wrappers which are slightly rubbed. A very good copy. An incomparable historical survey. This is the catalogue that accompanied the exhibition which..... More
Ixelles: A. Cnophs Fils; Bruxelles: Librairie Universelle de Rozez, 1881. First edition. 8vo., 19 pp. Printed paper wrappers. Very good. OCLC locates four copies; Bibliotheque Nationale de France, University of Arizona, National Gallery of Art, University of Texas, Harry Ransom Center. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. First edition. 4to., xiii, 364 pp., numerous illustrations. A very good or better copy in a spine-faded pictorial dust jacket. Forty-six critical essays on the Pictorialist by a well known contemporary of the movement. An essential addition to the study of Alfred Stieglitz, his..... More
Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 1998. First edition. 4to., 365 pp., profusely illustrated in b&w and color. A near fine copy in illustrated dust jacket. Krone (1827-1916), known for his portraiture, landscape interest in science and astronomy; in 1847 he fixed an image of a shooting star on a daguerreian plate;..... More
Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 1981. Hill, David Octavius. First edition. 4to., 220 pp., numerous illustrations in text, plus a profuse catalog of hundreds of small format reproductions of their calotypes. Pictorial stiff wrappers. One tiny scrape to the front wrapper foredge; a near fine copy. David Octavius Hill and..... More
London: Times Newspapers Limited, 1973. Hill, David Octavius. First edition. 8vo., unpaged, plus 64 full-page plates with captions. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Previous owner's name monogram stamped in ink on the half-title page. Wrappers lightly soiled, else a good copy. More
Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. First edition. Large 4to., xv, 490 pp., profusely illustrated with b&w photos. Fine, as new in dust jacket and shrinkwrap. Catalogues each of the some 1,850 works in The Cleveland Museum of Art collection and illustrates about 1,100 of them. 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
Glasgow: Richard Griffin and Co., 1841. First edition. 8vo., viii, 96 pp., lithographic frontispiece showing an image in positive and negative, with 29 illustrations in text. The frontispiece shows staining and foxing at the edges; a few leaves have creased corners and modest foxing. The top and bottom of the..... More
London: Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844. First edition. 8vo., vii, 303 pp., 32 pp. adverts, hand-colored engraved folding frontispiece, text diagrams. Recased in the decoratively blind-stamped publisher's original cloth. The lower edge of the binding is rubbed, with moderate wear at the tips. A very good copy..... More
London: John W. Parker and Son, 1853. 8vo., 485-610 pp., plus illustrated adverts. Original printed paper wrappers; a one-inch portion of the lower spine has been repaired with matching paper, lower blank tip of the front wrapper lacking, as is a short piece near the top. Very good. Housed in..... More
San Francisco: Published for an exhibition organized by Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1986. First ed. 8vo., 47 pp., frontis, 27 plates, detailed listing of the 78 daguerreotypes exhibited. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Slight wear to extremities..... More
München: Schirmer-Mosel, 1980. First edition. Small 4to., 268 pp. Fine in dust jacket. This is the second volume of three that draws together theoretical writings on photography. Authors include; Marius de Zayas, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Laszlo Moholoy-Nagy, Alexander Rodtschenko, Man Ray, et al. Text in German..... More
Seebruck am Chiemsee: HeeringVerlag, 1979. First ed. Small 4to., 279 pp., (1) advert, numerous b&w photos, 6 in color. Illustrated paper over boards. Spine toned. Very good. A detailed and extensive work; the chapters include an overview of the development of the daguerreotype; individual practitioners and histories by cities and..... More
Seebruck am Chiemsee: HeeringVerlag, 1979. First edition. Small 4to., 270 pp., (1) advert, numerous b&w photos, 6 in color. Illustrated paper over boards. A near fine copy. A detailed and extensive work; the chapters include an overview of the development of the daguerreotype; individual practitioners and histories by cities and..... More
Rochester: The Photographic Historical Society, 1974. First edition. 4to., 13 pp. Stapled into hole-punched printed wrappers. Slight toning. Near fine. A chronological survey of the various camera and lens manufacturers, which were founded in Rochester, New York. Often these companies were started by former employees of one company and later..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. First edition. 8vo., xi, 305 pp., nearly 150 b&w photographs. A fine copy in dust jacket. "Behind the Iron Curtain, against all odds, photography flourished as an art in the German Democratic Republic. The many images in this volume amply demonstrate that fact while..... More
Berlin: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, 2005. First edition. Small 4to., 287 pp, chiefly illustrated from b&w and color photographs. Illustrated stiff wrappers, which are slightly rubbed. Near fine. Published as the catalogue for the exhibition: Neues Sehen in Berlin: Fotografie der Zwanziger Jahre, Kunstbibliothek, Museum für Fotografie, Staatliche Museen..... More
Paris: Grassart; A. Gaudin et Frère, 1856. First edition. 12mo., vii, 220 pp., a.e.g. Publisher's blue cloth, decorated in blind on the covers and spine. The binding shows blistering and fading from dampness, with a faint and diminishing tidemark through p. 11 and again on the last 30 pages, primarily..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1972. First edition. 8vo., xix, 347 pp., profusely illustrated. A fine copy in the illustrated dust jacket that has one tiny spot on the front panel. An exhaustive and well written history from the Alpha Reflex to the Zephyr. More
Paris: Bernard Grasset, (1948). First edition. Thick 4to., 716 pp., profusely illustrated with photos and vignettes. Illustrated self wrappers, few short tears at the spine ends, else very good, and unopened. An extensive treatment of the art of motion picture photography from the earliest time to date. More