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
Seebruck am Chiemsee: HeeringVerlag, 1979. First ed. Small 4to., 279 pp., (1) advert, numerous b&w photos, 6 in color. Illustrated paper over boards. Spine toned. Very good. A detailed and extensive work; the chapters include an overview of the development of the daguerreotype; individual practitioners and histories by cities and..... More
Seebruck am Chiemsee: HeeringVerlag, 1979. First edition. Small 4to., 270 pp., (1) advert, numerous b&w photos, 6 in color. Illustrated paper over boards. A near fine copy. A detailed and extensive work; the chapters include an overview of the development of the daguerreotype; individual practitioners and histories by cities and..... More
Paris: Amyot, [1861]. First edition. 8vo., 330 pp., 65 illustrations in text. Contemporary quarter leather with title and decorations in gilt with marbled paper over boards; edges and hinges rubbed; contents clean and very good. Presented in nine parts: the first part offers a comprehensive history starting with Euclid to..... More
Paris: A. Texier, 1854. First edition. 12mo., 235 pp. Contemporary quarter morocco gilt and marbled paper over boards. An early manual on the contemporary processes of albumen and collodion and the preparation of photographic chemicals. Roosens and Salu No. 6523. Bellier de la Chavignerie, Manuel Bibliographie du Photographe Francais, 1863..... More
Paris: Librairie Scientifique-Industrielle de L. Mathias (Augustin), 1847. 2 volumes. Thick 4tos., unpaged, illustrated. Half calf and cloth with gilt rules and title on spine, cloth slightly stained, spine and tips rubbed, scattered foxing, else very good. Contains early information regarding photography, lenses, panoramas, photoengraving, photolithography, sensitized papers, etc.... More
[Saint-Cloud]: Imprimerie Belin Frères, 1900. First edition. 4to., 35 pp., (45) illustrations from b&w photographs, drawings and graphs. Printed wrappers. Aside from light toning at the edges of the front wrapper, a fine, as new copy. Housed in a newly made cloth over boards pamphlet case. The International World Exposition..... More
Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago and The University of Chicago Press, 1987. Le Gray, Gustave. First ed. Oblong 4to., 184 pp., frontis, over 100 photos and illustrations. A near fine copy in a very good illustrated dust jacket. Gustave Le Gray (1820-1882), a French painter and photographer was the..... More
Paris: Musée des Arts Décoratifs/Flammarion, 1986. Le Secq, Henri. First edition. 4to., 191 pp., full-page captioned photos, plus a pictorial catalogue of 717 images in reduced format. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper (from Christian Le Secq). A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket, housed in the publisher's plain..... More
Paris: Musée des Arts Décoratifs/Flammarion, 1986. Le Secq, Henri. First edition. 4to., 191 pp., full-page captioned photos, plus a pictorial catalogue of 717 images in reduced format. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket, housed in the publisher's plain cardstock slipcase. Le Secq (1818-1882), a painter, was commissioned in 1851..... More
Philadelphia: Benerman & Wilson, 1868. First edition. 8vo.,viii, [17] - 336 pp., occasional diagrams, plus 20 pp. adverts. Newly bound in half calf and marbled paper over boards. Near fine. A clearly written, complete procedural, with the following major parts which contain chapters of specific topics: Introduction to Photography; Photographic..... More
Paris: Lerebours et Secretan, 1846. Fifth edition. 8vo., [4], vii, 288 pp., folding plate loosely inserted, adverts. Scattered foxing to the first and last few leaves. Quarter morocco and paper over boards, gilt decorations on spine. The binding is lightly rubbed and worn at the tips. A very good copy..... More
Paris: N.-P. Lerebours, 1843. Fourth ed. 8vo., (iv), 203 pp., folding plate, plus 16 pp. catalogue. Cloth backed marbled paper over boards with a morocco spine label. The half-title shows modest soiling; occasional scattered foxing with a small stain to the top blank corner of the last few leaves; the..... More
Paris: A. Liébert, 1864. First edition. 8vo., xii,422, 15 pp. engraved figures in text. Contemporary quarter leather, gilt titled and decorated within raised bands on spine and marbled paper over boards. Light rubbing to the edges; else a fine and bright copy. Following the text is a 15 page advertisement..... More
Paris: A. Liébert, 1878. Third edition. 8vo., xi, 679 pp. photogravure frontispiece, 16 carbon photographs mounted on 6 leaves, and one mounted photo-lithograph, other illustrations in text. Contemporary half morocco with tips, gilt titled and decorated within raised bands on spine, t.e.g. Occasional scattered foxing. A near fine copy. Alphonse..... More
Berlin: Theobald Grieben, 1860 - 1867. First and mixed editions. 8vo., variable paginations, occasional illustrations from engravings. 8 volumes. Volume 1 is comprised of later printings (1861 & 1862) of the monthly issues. All others are first editions and published monthly in their corresponding year. All volumes bound in quarter..... More
NY: D. Van Nostrand, 1888. First ed. Small 4to., viii, 143 pp., 4 pp. adverts.; 10 tipped-in "specimen heliograms" and 32 illustrations in text. Cloth, with moderate wear at the spine ends. A few scattered stains, else very good copy. Although the title implies that this manual was designed for..... More
[Lyon: Freres Lumière, 1896]. Small 4to., (4) pp. Printed on a thick woven stock in blue ink with gold border rules and decorations. Moderate toning and light foxing, with evidence of a prior horizontal fold. Very good. Enclosed in a four point pamphlet case of paper over boards with a...... More
Paris: Librairie j.-b. Baillière et fils, 1887. First edition. 8vo., half-title, [1] advert, 106 pp., 3 - 8 adverts, with 7 leaves of plates. Original printed wrappers, with an advert on the rear wrapper. The front wrapper is edge chipped and detached with no loss of text; the rear wrapper..... More
NY: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. First U.S. edition. 2 volumes in 1. 8vo., vi, iv-vii, 251 pp.; vi, 231 pp., (10) pp. of adverts, with a folding map and 6 plates, some folding, many hand colored. Bound in the publisher's brown cloth with the title on the spine in gilt..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890. First edition. Oblong 4to., 24 pp., with 12 photogravure plates and plate guards with texts, a.e.g. Plain tan paper over boards, which is rubbed with staining on the rear board. The text block and plates show occasional foxing and soiling, with a few short marginal tears..... More
Deume-Antwerpen: Afdeling Foto en Film, 1970. First edition. Small square 4to., unpaged, 121 b&w photo-plates. Paper over boards with dust jacket. The dust jacket has a few short tears and is rubbed at the edges. A very good copy. In Dutch, French, English and German. More
Angers: Imprimerie de P. Lachèse, 1866. Dollé, M. Maurice. First edition. Small 4to., 88 pp., [3] leaves of mounted albumen plates of a possible 6. Printed original wrappers with a new paper spine; wear, short tears and light chipping to edges of the wrappers; scattered light foxing to the text..... More
Paris: Bauthier-Villars, 1899. First edition. 8vo., 40 pp., 23 figures in text from drawings and photographs. Printed wrappers. Small chip from the spine top. Near fine, and unopened. Housed in a newly made clamshell box. Marey presented this lecture on his methodology, apparatus, and its implications at a conference held..... More
Paris: G. Masson, éditeur, Librairie de l'Académie de Médecine, 1894. Marey. First edition. 8vo., 335 pp., with three leaves of plates, one folding. The text is further illustrated with 214 drawings, charts, graphs, and from b&w photographs. Later binding of quarter blue morocco and cloth with the spine in six..... More