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, 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

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..... 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

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

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

Paris: La Librairie Encyclopédique De Roret, 1851. Nouvelle édition, entièrement refondue, ornée de figures, et mise au courant des perfectionnements les plus récents. 16mo., xvi, 368 pp., 90 pp. publisher's catalogue, illustrations in text, and one large folding engraved plate with 36 figures. Quarter vellum gilt with spine label and..... More

Paris: Chez tous les librairies, [ca. 1860]. Second edition. 16mo., 216 pp., albumen photographic frontispiece. Occasional light foxing. Contemporary quarter morocco spine titled and decorated in gilt, with rubbed marbled paper over boards. Early owner's ex-libris affixed to the front pastedown. A very good copy. This small book of literary..... More