[Paris]: Hachette & Cie. 1899. Kuhn. First edition. Folio, 50 pp., (1), plus seven hand-pulled photogravure plates with tissue guards. Text is further illustrated with over 40 additional photo-illustrations. Occasional foxing to the blank margins, not affecting the images. The illustrated wrappers are moderately soiled and rubbed. In all, this..... More
Paris: Desloges, 1859. First edition with this title. 8vo., 167 pp., [1], 8 adverts. Original printed wrappers which are largely eroded at the spine, toned with some chipping at the edges. The text is foxed with a dampstain at the lower blank margin. A good copy. An interesting manual on..... More
Halle a.S. W. Knapp, 1891-1892. Second edition. 8vos., [vol. I] xii, 485 pp.; [vol. II] x, 518 pp.; [vol. III] x, 496 pp.; text illustrations. Half morocco and marbled boards. Owner's neat stamp on endpapers. The second volume has occasional marginalia in ink, holographic notes on paper which have been..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1887. Second French edition. Small 8vo., xiv, 98 pp., mounted platinum photographic frontispiece, illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Slight edge wear, creasing and moderate staining to wrappers. Very good. Housed in a custom made cloth clamshell box with facsimile paper label on front. This manual discusses Pizzighelli's newly modified..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1887. Second French edition. Small 8vo., xiv, 98 pp., mounted photo frontispiece, illustrations. Gilt-titled cloth. The binding and endsheets are dampstained; text toned and brittle with a short closed tear to the blank margin of the first free-flyleaf to the half-title page. The printed tissue guard for the..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1887. Second French edition. Small 8vo., xiv, 98 pp., mounted platinum photographic frontispiece, illustrations. [bound with] Lamy. E. LE PROCÉDÉ AU CHARBON. Manufacture des Papiers Photographiques. Paris: Maurice Bry & Cie., Successeurs de E. Lamy, [1903] Cinquième edition. 8vo., vii, 312, [3] pp. Contemporary quarter calf with marbled..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1883. Second edition. 8vo., xiv, 280 pp., errata, phototypie portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. Quarter cloth and marbled paper over boards, titled in gilt on the spine. Occasional light foxing, board and spine edges lightly rubbed; else very good. Alphonse Louis Poitevin (1819 - 1882) was trained as..... More
London: John Churchill & Sons, 1858. First edition. 8vo., x, 256 pp., engravings in text and 4 pp. adverts. Rebacked in the publisher's cloth binding with the original spine laid-down; tips rubbed. The text is moderately toned and soiled. A very good copy. The Arno Press reprinted this in 1973..... More
Paris: Henri Lefebvre, 1935. 4to., iii, 144 pages of b&w plates from photographs, most full-page, many with two images, 3 mounted plates. Gilt-decorated paper over boards;a one inch tear at the top of the front hinge, light foxing on the title page and endpapers, some spotting at the edges. Text..... More
Paris: NBC Éditions, 1999. First edition. 4to., 147 pp.,96 large plates from sepia tone photographs, other illustrations in text. Illustrated stiff wrappers with printed flaps. Small nick at the base of the spine and light scuffing. Near fine. Catalogue for the exhibition of this nineteenth century French photographer held at..... More
London: Hazell, Watson, & Viney, 1889. Robinson, H.P. Second edition, revised. Small 8vo., vi, 146 pp., plus adverts; frontispiece with tissue guard, 1 plate in text with tissue guard. Cloth with gilt titles. Small chip from corner of endpaper, else very good. From the title page: With Additional Chapters on..... More
Hartford: H.J. Rodgers, Publisher, 1872. First edition. 12mo., 235 pp., plus errata leaf, numerous engraved illustrations. Purple cloth faded on spine. Lacking the engraved frontispiece and the engraved drawing of Samuel F.B. Morse's memorial stone on page 223 (224 is blank); the majority of the blank terminal free endpaper is..... More
Paris: C.H. Mendel, [1896]. First edition. 12mo., 102 pp., 16 figures, mainly in text, including 2 b&w plates from x-ray photographs and wood engravings. Original illustrated paper wrappers, with light chipping at the spine ends. Pages slightly toned and occasional scattered foxing. Very good. An early illustrated treatise on the..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1841. First ed. Thick 8vo., viii, 815, [1] pp., illustrations, tables, forms. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, raised bands on spine with gilt decoration, marbled endpapers and edges. Slight crease to the blank margin of the first few leaves. Cracks to the hinges..... More
Vienna: Verlag des Camera-Clubs, 1894 -1896. First editions. 4tos., variable paginations, with illustrations in text and original mounted photogravures. Bound in quarter cloth with marbled paper over boards. 3 volumes comprised of monthly issues: Volume 1, No. 1 (January 1894) to Volume 3, No. 12 (December 1896). Bound with a...... More
Wien: Verlag von Carl Gerold's Sohn, 1864 - 1908. First editions. 8vos., variable paginations, with mounted original albumen photographic plates. 43 volumes. This set was acquired from the British Patent Office and bears their stamp throughout. A few volumes show early dampstaining, and thirty-six volumes have been newly-bound in quarter..... More
Paris: La Librairie Encyclopédique De Roret, 1857. First French edition. 12mo., xi, 492 pp., illustrated from engravings. Contemporary quarter morocco gilt and marbled paper over boards. Edges rubbed, light foxing on a few pages. A very good copy. A comprehensive manual to date. Translated from the Italian with notes by..... More
Amsterdam: Letteren & Kunst, 1964. First German language ed. Small thick 4to., 303 pp., plus (14) pp. notes and index, profusely illustrated in gravure, several color plates, one of which has an embossed illustrated acetate overlay. Fine in a near fine illustrated dust jacket. A remarkable illustrated historical survey and..... More
London: Lovell Reeve, 1858. First edition. 8vo., 451 pp., approx. 45 pp. advertisements, including the catalogue of one hundred stereoscopic views of Egypt and Nubia, published by Negretti & Zambra; 20 mounted albumen stereographs with tissue guards, engraved map. Gilt-decorated textured cloth, t.e.g. Lightly rubbed on extremities, head and foot..... More
London: Dirk Nishen Publishing and Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1988. Wood, John Muir. First edition. 4to., 95 pp., text illustrations, 66 plates. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Subtle creases to cover; else very good. A professional musician, Wood was active in Edinburgh at the same time as Hill and Adamson. In the..... More
London: Printed by the editor for B. Crosby and Co., 1808. First ed. 8vo., xviii, 505, 506*-507* (sic), 506-530 [48] pp. frontispiece, illustrations, plates (1 folding) folding tables. Following the title page is a tipped-in plate showing the layout of the type case, which has a few closed tears, and..... More
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[London]: Printed by J. & H. Cox, Brothers, 74 & 75, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's-Inn Fields, 1841. First edition. 4to., 4 pp. Aside from a few faint pinpoint spots of foxing, this is a fine, as new copy. Housed in a custom made cloth chemise and slipcase, titled in gilt..... More
London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., and Horne and Thornthwaite, 1857. Fourteenth edition. 12mo., [iv], 65; p. [66] -68, 89-120 pp., woodcut illustrations in text, adverts. Original printed paper over boards, possibly later rebacked with cloth. Old collection and library stamps. The covers are stained and rubbed; there are small stains..... More
London: Horne, Thornthwaite and Wood, 1845. Second edition, enlarged. 8vo., 5 - 62 pp., 3 engraved plates. Lacking preliminary leaves through the title page and the catalogue of photographic supplies, p. 63 - 72. Removed from a bound volume, this has added contemporary leaves of manuscript formulas by Dr. Hugh..... More
Paris: G. Masson, [1884]. Fourth edition, entirely revised. 8vo., xi, 321 pp., color frontispiece with tissue guard, plus 3 color plates, 218 illustrations in text. Gilt decorated red morroco spine with textured red cloth, a.e.g. Slightly rubbed at extremities, occasional light foxing, else very good. A manual containing wonderful illustrations..... More