Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1891. First edition. 8vo., vi, 36 pp., illustrated. Printed paper wrappers; spine chipped and label removed from front wrapper. A few small pencil marks in margins, rear wrapper creased. Near very good. A clearly written manual for making ferrotypes, also known as tintypes, including a technique..... More
Paris: A. Guyot, 1834. Fifth edition. 8vo., 203 pp., 5 folding engraved plates. Contemporary binding of quarter morocco and marbled paper over boards; raised bands with gilt detail and titling on spine; all edges marbled. Slight wear to tips; pages toned with slight intermittent foxing, with a bit more pronounced..... More
Paris: Au Bureau du Cosmos et Chez Delahaye, 1855. First edition. 8vo., 104 pp. Printed wrappers are slightly edgeworn and show age-toning and light stains. Very good. Housed in a new quarter cloth and pastepaper clamshell box. Stéphane Geoffray (1827-1895) banker, lawyer and photographer, was the inventor of the waxed..... More
Paris: Gauthiers-Villars, 1882. First edition. 12mo., 42 pp., plus publisher's catalogue. The printed paper wrappers are edge-chipped and toned; spine repaired. There istoning and scattered foxing, otherwise in very good condition as well as unopened. HOUSED IN A NEWLY MADE PAMPHLET CASE OF CLOTH WITH PRINTED PAPER LABEL. A thorough..... More
Paris: Les Mondes / Gauthier-Villars, 1872. First edition. 12mo., xii, 54 pp., [4] adverts., 29 engraved illustrations in text. Printed original wrappers, which are foxed and chipped along the spine (with no loss of text), front wrapper detatched. The text is foxed with a small stain to the blank lower..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1888. First edition. 12mo., vi., 19, [1], [12] adverts, 4 pp. folded advert laid-in. Original printed paper wrappers, distributor's printed label affixed to the front wrapper; slight chipping at the foredge; faint tidemark in text. A very good copy. A manual for the application of photographs..... More
NY: Falk Publishing Co., 1927. Second ed. 8vo., 435 pp., adverts. Publisher's orange colth which has a white scuff mark on the front panel and light wear at the spine crown. A very good copy. This is the textbook for the course in cinematography at the New York Institute of..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1895. First edition. 4to., vi, [2] 175 pp. Quarter calf titled in qilt on the spine and marbled paper over boards. Rubbed, spine faded, blank corners of half-title and title page clipped with no loss of text. Internally a very good copy. "An indispensable reference tool..... More
London: John Weale, 1854. First English language edition. 12mo., xii; 108 pp., 10 b&w wood engravings in text. Cloth over flexible boards, embossed in blind, with a rubbed printed label affixed to front cover. Bookseller label affixed to verso of the front cover; conservation to spine, Slight offsetting to the..... More
London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1825. First ed. Thick small 4to., xvi, [8], 939 [25] pp., frontispiece, plates (some folding), portraits. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, gilt title and decorative rules within raised bands along spine, endpapers and edges marbled. A closed tear to first folding leaf..... More
London: John Churchill, 1855. First edition. 12mo., xvi, 384 pp., errata, figures in text. Publisher's gilt and blind-embossed cloth. There is a short closed tear on the half-title page with no loss, and a private library stamp on the front free endpaper and blank margin of the preface. The rear..... More
NY: H.H. Snelling, 1858. Fourth edition. 12mo., xii, 257 pp., figures in text. Printed paper wrappers. Edge-chipped with a closed tear, ex-libris of the New York Camera Club affixed to the blank reverse of the front wrapper; conservation to spine, else a good copy. Housed in a newly made clamshell..... More
London: John Churchill, 1859. Fifth edition. 12mo., xvi, 516 pp., figures in text. The blank upper corner of half-title replaced; Publisher's cloth decorated in blind on the covers, rebacked with the gilt titled spine laid-down. Very good. First published in 1855, this manual quickly became the standard for its time..... More
London: John Churchill, 1861. Sixth edition. 12mo., xvi, 571 pp., figures in text, adverts. Publisher's cloth decorated in blind on the covers; rebacked with gilt titling on the spine; the original yellow endpapers show soiling tiny chip to the blank bottom margin of the title page. Moderate wear. A near..... More
New York: Scovill Manufacturing Company, 1886. Ninth edition. 8vo., 384 pp., figures in text, plus 38 pp. illustrated adverts. Published in full leather over flexible boards, this volume has been rebound in new leather over flexible boards utilizing the orignal marbled endpapers, titled in gilt on the spine, a.e.g. A...... More
NY: The Scovill & Adams Company, 1892. First edition. 8vo., vii, 426 pp., illustrated. The publisher's cloth binding is illustrated in gilt and black. The front fly and first blank are detatched; rear hinge open but firm. Very Good. A technical manual covering several platinum processes and their chemistry; calotypes..... More
London: Hazell, Watson, and Viney, 1890. First edition. 12mo., iv, 217 pp., frontispiece with tissue guard, diagrams and photos in text, adverts. Publisher's red cloth, titled in gilt. Spine is worn and chipped at the crown; paper label partially removed from spine. Very good. "A general instructional work for the..... More
[London: R. and E. Taylor], 1840. First edition. 4to., 59 pp., 2 leaves of plates. Later wrappers with printed labels on the front wrapper and spine. Extracted from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume 130. Fine. Housed in a newly made pamphlet case of cloth-backed paper over..... More
NY: Robinson & Caswell, 1856. First edition. 8vo., xii, 175 pp. Decoratively blind-stamped cloth, gilt title. Light wear at the spine ends and tips, occasional foxing; front hinge partially opened, else very good. In 1850, the Rev. Levi Hill announced his "discovery" of producing a daguerreotype in color, which he..... More
NY: Robinson & Caswell, 1856. First edition. 8vo., xii, 175 pp. Publisher's decoratively blind-stamped cloth, gilt title on the upper cover. Short chip at the top of the spine, slightly extending to the upper board; slight stain at the bottom 1 1/2 inches of the front cover; scattered foxing. Very..... More
NY: Holman & Gray, Printers, 1851. First edition. 8vo., 15 pp. Stitched into the original printed wrappers. The bottom tip of the leaves extend beyond the trimmed edge are lightly creased. There are small remnants of a brown paper affixed to the blank rear wrapper. A near fine copy. In..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1898. First French edition. 12mo., (ii), 95 pp., frontispiece, figures in text. Printed wrappers. Near fine. The frontispiece is a facsimile of a platinotype print before and after development. Hinton was the editor of the PHOTOGRAPHIC ART JOURNAL and THE AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER. An accomplished Pictorialist, he..... More
Watkins Glen, NY: Century House, [1956]. First edition. Small 4to., 192 pp., illustrated. Illustrated stiff wrappers. The wrappers are lightly toned and have a crease to the rear tip. A very good copy. Includes statements by: Thomas Wedgwood, Daguerre, Cruikshank, Fax Talbot, F. Scott Archer, Charles Dickens, George Eastman, P.H...... More
Philadelphia: Frank V. Chambers, (1924). First edition. Small 8vo., 96 pp., adverts. Pencil checks on many of the entries. The publisher's tan cloth is slightly rubbed. A very good copy. An extensive list of the chemicals, their preperation and aplication in a multitude of photographic processes. More
London: Hockin & Co., 1860. Fourth edition. 12mo., [x], 167 pp., concludes with p. viii Hockin's trade catalogue of apparatus and chemicals, folding double page illustrated plate. Blind-stamped cloth with gilt title. Edgeworn, slight staining and fading to cloth, light occasional foxing, front hinge slightly opened. There are ink and..... More