(Göteborg): Gumpertska konsthandelns förlag, n.d. (ca. 1865-1870). First edition. Folio, with 12 (7 x 8 1/2 inch) original gold-toned albumen photographs on printed stiff paper mounts (12 1/ 4 x 16 1/2 inches). Calf-backed gilt-stamped and decoratively embossed cloth folder. Lightly faded, worn and rubbed at the edges, else very..... 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
Boston: David R. Godine, 1993. Notman, William. First edition. 4to., (viii), 226 (5) pp., numerous full-page b&w photos. Fine in illustrated dust jacket. A comprehensive view of the work of the giant of nineteenth-century Canadian photography. With his sons and protégés, Notman had studios in Boston and Albany, Montreal, Toronto..... 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, 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
London: John Churchill, 1855. Second edition. 12mo., xvi, 344 pp., errata, figures in text. Recased and rebacked in the publisher's gilt and blind-embossed cloth, original spine cloth laid-down. Faint dampstains on the front and rear free endpapers; slight bump to one lower board tip. Very good. First published in 1855..... More
Montreal: McGill University Press, 1967. Notman, William. First ed. Folio, (12) pp., plus 174 full-page plates, (24) pp. of History and notes on plates, folding plates. Fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket. William Notman was the premier photographer working in Canada during from the mid nineteenth century through the..... More
Montreal: McGill University Press, 1967. Notman, William. First edition. Folio, [12] pp., plus 174 full-page plates, [24] pp. of History and notes on plates, folding plates. A very good copy in the rubbed dust jacket. William Notman was the premier photographer working in Canada during from the mid nineteenth century..... More
(Oakland, CA): The Oakland Museum, 1973. First edition. Oblong small 4to., 31 pp., 14 plates, six-plate panoramic gatefold (View of San Francisco, 1853), text illustrations. The illustrated stiff wrappers are rubbed. A very good copy. More
London: Henry Greenwood & Co., 1870-1963. First editions. 12mos.; variable paginations; many containing original illustrations from a variety of photographic processes. 60 volumes as follows: 1870, 1893 - 1895, 1899, 1901 - 1902. 1910 - 1963. Most volumes are bound in the publisher's original cloth, style varied over time, and..... More
Edinburgh: The Scottish Arts Council, 1970. Hill, David Octavius. First edition. Small 4to., 86 pp., 31 plates, addenda and errata sheet laid-in. Pictorial stiff wrappers in printed glassine wrapper which is lacking a chip from the blank rear panel. Near fine. Published on the occasion of a traveling exhibition; lists..... More
NY: St. Martin's Press, 1973. Hill. First American edition. 4to., 4 pp., 95 pp. of b&w plates. A fine copy in dust jacket. More
Essen: Museum Folkwang Essen, 1963. Hill, David Octavius; Adamson, Robert. First edition. Small 4to., [18] pp., plus 28 pages illustrating 41 b&w plates from photographs. Photo-illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine. The catalogue for the exhibition of 214 works at the Museum Folkwang Essen, March 16 - April 14, 1963. Essay..... 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
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
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
Parisiis: Ex Typographia Firminorum Didot, 1855. First edition, as such. 12mo., xlvi, 299 pp., 18 mounted albumen photographs, and 2 double-page maps with tissue guards, a.e.g. Bound in a later full morocco, decorated with rules and corner ornaments in blind, patterned endpapers. The gutter is partially opened at the title-page..... More
London and Glasgow: Richard Griffin and Company, 1854. Fourth edition, revised. 8vo., endpaper adverts front and rear, series title page, chromolithograph frontispiece, xii, 329 pp., [2] pp. adverts, 87 b&w engraved figures, 1 b&w engraved chapter vignette, followed by 32 pp., illustrated CATALOGUE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS Sold by John Joseph..... 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
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 rounding at the tips. A very good copy. "Robert..... 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. Publisher's blind stamped cloth titled in gilt on the spine; small tears to the spine have been expertly repaired; tips and edges are rubbed through to..... More
Paris: J. Dumaine, 1866. First edition. 8vo., [vi], 75 p., 2 large folded plates, including a panoramic plan of the polygon at Versailles. Wrappers printed in facsimile. Short tape repair to the blank reverse of the final folding plate. Housed in a new card pamphlet case with printed paper labels..... More