NY: Published by Pudney & Russell, 1860. First edition. 8vo., xii, 168 pp.; [with] [A Directory to the Principal Objects of Interest in New-York] 7-42 pp., illustrated plates from wood engravings, 1 folding plate, a color advertisement. Gilt-decorated cloth, a.e.g. Extremities moderately rubbed. Lacking the terminal blank free endpaper. Very..... More

NY: Tennant and Ward, 1935. Niepce, Nicephore. First U.S. edition. 8vo., (viii), 163 pp., (4) adverts. Cloth. A fine copy. Edward Epstean's translation into English of La vérité sur l'invention de la photographie. Reprint of 1867 edition published in Paris by the Library of Authors and of the Academy of..... More

[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

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 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

Venezia: Tipografia Ripamonti-Ottolini, 1870. 8vo., 48 pp. Printed paper wrappers. Housed in a newly made three-point cloth folder, with a paper label on upper cover and spine. The wrappers are chipped at the corners; the rear wrapper has been expertly replaced. The blank lower tips of most leaves are chipped..... More

NY: Clarkson N. Potter, 1967. First edition. 4to., ix, 139 pp., illustrated. A near fine copy in dust jacket. An historical survey of the practitioners, the art of, and the cases used in American daguerreotypes. 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

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

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

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-cap..... 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