New York: Wiley & Halsted; London: Trübner & Co., 1858. Fifth edition. 8vo., 242 pp., [3] adverts. Original cloth. Rebacked with the original gilt-titled spine laid-down; rubbed at the fore edge; previous owners' names on endpapers in pencil; else very good. Contains a thorough discussion of the ambrotype process including..... More

Chicago: Burke & James Incorporated, March 1925. Small oblong 4to., 74 pp., illustrated from photographs. Decorative paper wrappers, which are moderately edgeworn. Dampstain on the rear wrapper and along the edges of leaves throughout. A good copy. Rexo products, airbrushes, drawing tables, frames, printing equipment, developing tanks, albums, motion picture..... More

Chicago: Burke & James Incorporated, [1923]. 8vo., 192 pp., illustrated from b&w photographs and engravings. Decorative stiff wrappers. Ink date and slight staining on the front; light chipping at the spine ends. Very good. This priced catalogue offers the Rexo camera, Expo Watch Camera, Ingento View Camera, tripods, lenses, Biascope..... More

NY: C.P. Goerz American Optical Co., 1909. 8vo., 64 pp., numerous b&w photographs and illustrations. Decorative stiff wrappers, which are edge-chipped and repaired at the spine. Dated in ink on the blank margin of the title page; one 4 pp. signature detached. Very good. A complete, priced catalogue of Goerz..... More

Munich: Hanns Bierl, publisher, 1950. First edition. 8vo., 157 pp., illustrated from b&w photographs. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Light soiling to the wrappers. Very good. A complete survey of the various types of cameras being produced in Western Germany in 1950, each is pictured with a concise technical description. Among the..... More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1890. First edition. 8vo., xi, 121 pp. Publisher's printed wrappers. The wrappers and last 5 leaves are creased. Very good. A manual of determining exposures under various conditions and situations. Roosens and Salu No. 3717. More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1880. First edition. Small 4to., viii, 58 pp., illustrated. Printed paper wrappers; remnant of a paper label affixed to the top of the front wrapper, slight foxing; very good and unopened. Eder in HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY mentions this title along with those by Abney, Burgess, and Monckhoven, as..... More

Paris: Librairie Scientifique, Industrielle et Agricole, [1876]. First edition. 8vo., 246 pp., approximately 100 pp. of publisher's adverts. Original printed wrappers, which are chipped on the spine, with a partial printed label of the distributor affixed on the upper cover and title page. Old dampstain on the majority of pages;..... More

Paris: Adrien Delahaye, 1865. Second edition. Thick 8vo., xiii [errata], 563 n pp., frontispiece portrait, illustrations, engraved plates, and 2 folding engraved plates. Morocco-backed marbled paper over boards. Mildly rubbed at tips, light occasional foxing. The hinges are scaped with slight cracking but firm. A near very good copy.  ..... More

London: Ilford, 1926. First English language edition, or second edition. 8vo., x, 251 pp., text illustrations, adverts. Gilt-titled cloth. Very good. Devoted entirely to graphic arts reproduction processes; line photoengraving, half-tone, photolithography, photogravure, three-colour process, polychromatic half-tone, etc. Translated from the original French edition. More

Paris: Gauthier-vVillars et Fils, 1894. First edition. 12mo., vi, 72 pp., 11 figures in text. Publisher's wrappers, which show a moderate dampstainon the rear and final blank endpaper. Tiny ink notation on the front wrapper, pencil notaions on page margins. Very good. First separate work on photographic perspective. Roosens and..... More

Paris: Georges Carré et C. Naud, 1897. First edition. 8vo., iv, 165, 29 pp., [2] adversts, 1 double-page plate in color, 3 in b&w. Publisher's red cloth, titled in gilt on the spine and upper cover; modereate wear and fading. Library stamp and number on the title page. A near..... More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1888. First edition. Small 8vo., vi, 29 [3] pp., plus 4 pp. adverts. Plain stiff paper wrappers with publisher's label, possibly a remainder issue. A near fine copy, unopened. Explains the use of silver, iron salts, and potassium bichromate in making of photographic reproduction of prints..... More