Geneva: Librairie Droz SA, 1981. Blanquart-Evrard. First edition. 8vo., 325 pp., 22 full-page b&w photos and facsimile plates, 555 images in small format. Printed stiff wrappers. Slight bump to the upper tip and light soiling to the glossy wrappers. Includes an extensive historical essay and full descriptions, including locations for... More about BLANQUART-EVRARD ET LES ORIGINES DE L'ÉDITION PHOTOGRAPHIQUE FRANÇAISE.; CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ...

Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1889. First ed. Small 8vo., x, 146 pp., illustrated. The printed paper wrappers are chipped at the corners and lacking much of the spine; very slight occasional foxing. A good copy. Phototype was a name formerly given the photolithographic process invented by Poitevin and to a.... More about MANUEL DE PHOTOTYPIE

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1865. 8vo., 74 pp., 4 lithographic plates. String-tied, issued without wrappers. Near fine. The author disputes the claim that several images were photographically created in the eighteenth-century. They were actually made with a camera obscura. It was the author's grandfather, Matthew Boulton, a collaborator with James... More about REMARKS CONCERNING CERTAIN PICTURES SUPPOSED TO BE PHOTOGRAPHS OF EARLY DATE

Paris: Librarie Encyclopédie de Roret, 1839. First French edition. 24 mo., 286 pp., 2 folding engraved plates, in seven panels each. Bound with 90 pp. catalogue for ENCYCLOPÉDIE DE RORET dated June 1857. Quarter-morocco with tips and marbled paper over boards; spine with raised bands, gilt title on spine. Moderate... More about NOUVEAU MANUEL DE MAGIE NATURELLE ET AMUSANTE

New York: Daniel Burgess & Co., 1856. Second edition. 12mo., 184 pp., plus 3 adverts. Blind-stamped cloth, which is faded, with wear at the corners; the crown of the spine is chipped, and the front hinge is partially cracked at the title page but holding. Signature of the original owner... More about THE AMBROTYPE MANUAL:; A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE ART OF TAKING POSITIVE PHOTOGRAPHS ON GLASS,...

Santa Fe: Twin Palms Publishers, 1998. First edition. Large 8vo., (100) pp., plus 127 full-page color plates. Fine, as new in dust jacket. Selections from Dr. Burns' outstanding collection of 40,000 examples of medically related photograph, from the inception of the medium through its' first one hundred years. Includes extensive notes on each illustration. More about A MORNING'S WORK: MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE BURNS ARCHIVE & COLLECTION, 1839-1939

Boston: David R. Godine, 1973. Cameron, Julia Margaret. First Revised Edition. Folio, 32 pages of introduction and notes, 44 photographic plates with captions opposite. A near fine copy in illustrated dust jacket. Originally published in a limited edition in 1926, this edition has a new preface and additional photos. More about VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS MEN & FAIR WOMEN.; Introductions by Virginia Woolf and Roger...

Chicago: Wilson & St. Clair, Publishers, 1868. Carbutt, John. First ed. Small 4to., (ii), ix, (10) - 693 pp., with 96 mounted albumen photographs, including a view of City Hall and 95 portraits. One plate shows moderate wear along the blank foredge; there is occasional light staining to a few... More about BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE LEADING MEN OF CHICAGO; WRITTEN BY THE BEST TALENT OF THE NORTHWEST

Mexico, D.F. Fonda de Cultura Económica, 1989. First edition. 4to., 111, (1) pp., over 45 full-page color and b&w plates after daguerreotypes. Photo-illustrated glossy stiff wrapper with inner flaps. Light wear to the edges of the wrappers, a very good copy. The title translates to: "On the polished surface of..... More about SOBRE LA SUPERFICIE BRUÑIDA DE UN ESPEJO: FOTÓGRAFOS DEL SIGLO XIX; Edición Pablo Ortiz...

NY: E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., 1870-1901. First edition. 8vos. Each monthly issue approximately 30 pp., illustrations in text, and photographic frontispiece with tissue guard starting in the 1880s. As follows: Vol. 1, No. 7, 1870, partially disbound with chipped wrappers, in cloth case; Vols. 2-3, 1871-1872, complete, bound... More about ANTHONY'S PHOTOGRAPHIC BULLETIN

Paris: Chez L'Auteur, 1841. First edition. 8vo.,[3], 78, [2] pp. table and errata, one folded plate. [bound with] Chevalier, Charles. MÉLANGES PHOTOGRAPHIQUES. SUPPLÉMENT DES NOUVELLES INSTRUCTIONS SUR L'USAGE DU DAGUERRÉOTYPE. Paris: Chez L'Auteur, 1844. First edition. 8vo., [4], 127 pp., lacking the folded plate. [bound with] Chevalier, Charles. NOUVEAUX RENSEIGNEMENS... More about NOUVELLES INSTRUCTIONS SUR L'USAGE DU DAGUERRÉOTYPE.; DESCRIPTION D'UN NOUVEAU PHOTOGRAPHE, ET...

Paris: Chez Lerebours et Secretan, [1847]. First edition. 8vo., 8, [1] pp. Original printed wrappers. Light toning at the edges, with a light chemical stain on the blank margin of 2 leaves. A very good copy housed in a paper over boards pamphlet case with printed paper labels. Little seems... More about PHOTOGRAPHIE. DESCRIPTION DU PROCÉDÉ AMÉRICAIN.; [cover title

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 about MÉMOIRES ORIGINAUX DES CRÉATEURS DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE: NICÉPHORE NIÉPCE, DAGUERRE, BAYARD,...