Chicago: John Wilkinson Co., 1891. Third edition, revised and enlarged. 8vo., 178 pp., 8 photographic plates, text illustrations, adverts. Cloth. Edges lightly rubbed, pencil notes on rear pastedown and a few check marks on one text page. Very good. Covers exposures, chemicals, developing, the dark room, printing, various papers, landscape..... More
New York: Humphrey's Journal Print, 1857. Third edition, revised and greatly enlarged. 12mo., xii, [13]-215 pp., illustrated. Errata pasted to blank front free endpaper (as found in other copies). Original blind stamped cloth. Two paper labels affixed to the spine, chipping at the spine ends; ex-libray with the label of..... More
NY: S.D. Humphrey, 1858. Fifth edition. 8vo., xii, 13-214 pp., 5 pp. adverts. Publisher's gilt-titled red cloth which is lightly rubbed at the tips. The previous owner's neat signature is written on the first blank leaf, and there are a few pencil underlinings to the first printed page, with a...... More
NY: S.D. Humphrey, 1858. Fifth edition. 8vo., xii, 13-214 pp., 5 pp. adverts. Gilt-titled red cloth. Lightly worn at edges; original owner's name handwritten on the blank margin of nearly every recto page, with juvenile scribbles on the front and rear blanks and endpapers, remnants of paper labels on the..... 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
London: John Joseph Griffin & Co. and Richard Griffin and Co., Glagow, 1853. Third edition, enlarged. 8vo., hand-colored frontispiece with tissue guard, x, 321 pp., [18] pp. catalogue of instruments, illustrated with numerous engravings. Later binding of half calf and marbled paper over boards, new endpapers. Very good. Robert Hunt..... More
London: John Joseph Griffin & Co., 1851. [second edition, revised]. 8vo., series title, x, 2 engravings, 234 pp., [10] pp. catalogue of photographic apparatus dated July, 1851. Numerous illustrations. Original decoratively blind-stamped red cloth. Newly rebacked with printed paper label on spine, tips rounded. General soiling, occasional chemical stains and..... 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
London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1849. Daguerre. Second ed. 8vo., xxvi, 478 pp., (24) pp. Half calf and marbled paper, with all edges marbled, calf spine and tips replaced. The front marbled endpaper is partially detatched. A very good copy. Hunt (1807-1887) was librarian and keeper of mine records at..... 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
[NY: The Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1931]. 8vo., 13 pp., illustrations. Stiff wrappers with three-hole-punch along the spine edge. Very good. "A description of special forms of screens on which parallax panoramagrams may be projected to produce pictures in relief." - from the cover. Stereoscopic projection... More
London: Charles Knight and Co., 1839. First ed. 4to., xvi, 748 pp., errata leaf, illustrated largely with b&w engravings and a few printed in colors, t.e.g. Marbled paper over boards with spine and corners in morocco, titled in gilt. The boards are rubbed and the hinges have been expertly repaired;..... More
Paris: Bureaux de l'Artiste, 1839. First edition. 4to., 4 pp. Faint foxing, archival paper repair along the fold; with a toned area, 1 x 1/2 inch at the top blank margin where tape has been removed. Very good. Laid-in a paper and boards folder with a printed paper label on..... More
Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. First edition. Small 4to., xviii, 371 pp., illustrated. A very good to near fine copy in dust jacket. More
The Bibliographical Society of America. 1973. 8vo., 283 - 304 pp., illustrations. Stapled into printed wrappers. Light crease at the spine. Near fine. The authors present evidence that Henry Hunt Snelling's 1849, THE HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY, which was commonly referred to as the first bound..... More
Paris: C. Klary, 1903. First edition. 4to., 78 pp., 77 photos, 1 phototypie print (loose and laid in), illustrations in text, 40 plates (most with two photos to a plate), 33 pp. illustrated adverts. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Printed on coated stock, moisture has caused slight effacement to the blank margins..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1889. First edition. 12mo., ix, 96 pp. Original printed wrappers. Fine. A manual for enlarging portrait photographs and the subsequent coloring with pencil, crayons and pastels. Roosens and Salu No. 3582. More
Paris: Société d'Éditions Scientifiques, 1893. First edition. Small 8vo., xi, 174 pp., illustrated. Printed wrappers. The spine is worn and darkened; the edges of the text block are age toned. The is a modest chip from the blank margin of the half-title page From the collection of Abel Buguet, director..... More
Braunschweig: H. Neuhoff & Co., 1861. Third edition, enlarged. 8vo., viii, 399, [1], and [40] adverts and priced catalogue printed on green stock, engraved figures in text. Publisher's cloth decorated in gilt and blind. Scattered foxing; otherwise, a fine copy. A comprehensive manual for both professional and amateur photographers, first..... More
Paris: Libr. centrale des sciences de Leiber; Bruxelles: librairie d'Auguste Schnée, 1861. First French edition. 8vo., 312 pp., [5] priced adverts of chemicals and supplies printed on yellow paper, engraved figures in text. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled paper over boards, edges and tips rubbed. Rear upper tip bumped; occasional..... More
Halle: Wilhelm Knapp, 1926. Kuhn, Heinrich. First edition. 8vo., 147 pp., adverts. Printed paper wrappers. Chipped at edges, wrappers detached, photographic club stamp on front, toned, unopened. Fair. Kühn was born in Dresden to a wealthy family in 1866; in 1879 he made his first photographs. He studied botany and..... More
Paris: Amyot, 1859. First edition. 8vo., iv, 280 pp., 32 b&w figures in text. New binding of quarter morocco with tips, marbled paper over boards, five raised bands on spine, with gilt titling. Occasional foxing and soiling at the untrimmed edges; slight bump to the text at the upper tip..... More
Paris: Amyot, 1859. First edition. 8vo., iv, 280 pp., 32 b&w figures in text. New binding of quarter calf with tips, marbled paper over boards, five raised bands on spine, with gilt titling. Light toning at the edges and slight intermittent foxing. Very good. A detailed manual covering portraiture and..... More
Paris: Amyot, 1863. First edition. 8vo., 136 pp., 39 engraved illustrations. Light intermittent foxing; a portion of the blank margin of p. 95 - 96 is lacking. A very good copy in the original illustrated paper wrappers. A series of 224 short instructional articles, which comprise a complete course in..... More