Buenos Aires: Abadía Editora, 1986. First edition. Oblong 4to., 180 pp., b&w illustrations from photographs and facsimiles. Photo-illustrated stiff wrappers, which are lightly rubbed; internally fine. An excellent historical survey which includes an extensive biographical listing of practitioners and bibliography. Text in Spanish. More
![GÖTEBORGS ALBUM; [cover title]. Göteborgs Musei Fotogr. Atelier](/pictures/thumb/29430.jpg?v=1466624019)
(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
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
NY: Scovill Manufacturing Company, 1887. First edition. 8vo., 136 pp., frontispiece portrait, plus xxvi pp. illustrated adverts. Publisher's brown cloth decorated in gilt and black, slightly rubbed at the front hinge and the base of the spine and tips. Handwritten on front pastedown is "Orange Camera Club" with no other..... More
![THE JOURNAL OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY [OF LONDON]. Arthur Henfrey](/pictures/thumb/53008.jpeg?v=1571778544)
London: Taylor and Francis, 1853 - 1855. Mixed editions. 8vos., 27 issues, variable paginations, loose folded sheets, illustrations and figures in text. One issue has the first leaf detatched, several partially separated at the fold with no loss, the last has a few closed tears, several are toned or dusty..... 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
(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
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
Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 1981. Hill, David Octavius. First edition. 4to., 220 pp., numerous illustrations in text, plus a profuse catalog of hundreds of small format reproductions of their calotypes. Pictorial stiff wrappers. One tiny scrape to the front wrapper foredge; a near fine copy. David Octavius Hill and..... 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
New York: S.D. Humphrey, 1851. First editions. 8vo. continuously paginated vii, 384 pp. 12 issues, Vol. 2 No. 1, May 15, 1851 to Vol. II, No. 12, November 1, 1851. Original illustrated wrappers present on all but issue #10, with some mild chipping at the edges of a few issues..... 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: 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
Southampton: Photo-Zincographed by Her Majesty's Command at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, Colonel Sir H. James, Director. 1862. First ed. Folio, (vi), 16 pp.; illustration, text in red and black. The original 4 pp. prospectus has been tipped-in following the text. Decoratively blind-embossed cloth with gilt title and emblem, recased..... 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