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
NY: Seely & Garbanati, 1858-1867. First editions. 8vos., variable paginations. 9 volumes as follows: Vol.1, 1858-59; Vol. 2, 1859-60; Vol. 3, 1860-61; Vol. 4, 1861-62; Vol. 5, 1862-63; Vol. 6, 1863-64; Vol. 7, 1864-65; Vol. 8, 1865-66; Vol. 9, 1866-67. Newly bound in quarter gray cloth with gray paper over... 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
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1989. Hill and Adamson. First edition. Oblong 8vo., 77 pp., 31 photos. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Very good. Photos by Brewster, Hill and Adamson, Talbot, et al. Published in conjunction with an exhibition presented at The University of Michigan Museum of Art. 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
Paris: Société Française de Photographie, 1857 through 1876. First editions. 8vos., various paginations, from approx. 25 pp. to 65 pp. Original printed paper wrappers. 10 volumes, all published. The issue of 1859 has a dampstain running along the blank lower margin of the first 20 pp. and soiled wrappers. The... More
Essen: Museum Folkwang Essen, 1963. Hill, David Octavius; Adamson, Robert. First edition. Small 4to., (18) pp., 41 sepia-toned plates. Photo-illustrated stiff wrappers which are lightly rubbed on the blank rear panel. A small MoMA identification label affixed to the blank reverse of the front wrapper. Near fine. An early German... 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: Scientific Publishing Co., 1884-1899. First editions. 4tos., variable paginations. 30 volumes. A long and unbroken run from Vol. 1, No. 1, October 10, 1884 - Vol. 30, No. 795, December 29, 1899. A few volumes show early dampstaining, and all volumes have been newly bound in quarter cloth and... 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
![THE PROCESS OF TALBOTYPE [FORMERLY CALLED CALOTYPE] PHOTOGENIC DRAWING, COMMUNICATED TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY, JUNE 10, 1841. William Henry Fox Talbot.](/pictures/thumb/52094.jpeg?v=1496691798)
[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 fewfaint pinpoint spots of foxing, this is a fine, near new copy. Housed in a custom made cloth chemise and slipcase, titled in gilt along... More
Paris: Lerebours et Secrétan; Lyon, Chez L'Auteur, 1847. First edition. 8vo., 194 pp.,(1), illustrations in text, at chapter heads. Contemporary quarter black calf, gilt titled on spine with black cloth over boards. Slight stain on one page, else a fine and bright copy. Little has been written or known of... 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
New York: Joseph H. Ladd, 1864, 1866, and 1867. First editions. 12mos. 3 volumes. [1864] 144 pp., plus illustrated adverts. Publisher's cloth, decorated in blind and tilted in gilt on the upper cover. The cloth shows stains and wear; scattered foxing, stains and toning. [1866] 106 pp., adverts. The original... More
Quedlinburg and Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von Gottfr. Basse, 1845. First edition. 8vo., 72 pp., folding frontispiece. Later paper over boards with panel of the original printed front wrapper mounted on the upper cover. Some leaves have small closed tears, chips, creases, and faint stains. A good copy. Calling upon... 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: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1895. First French edition. Small 8vo., vi, 100 pp., 12 adverts, frontispiece with tissue guard, 2 plates with tissue guards, text-illustrations. The printed paper wrappers are moderately worn, with a short closed tear to front wrapper and first two pages. Very good, unopened. This manual describes... 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
New York: A Studio Book, The Viking Press, 1980. First U.S. edition. 4to., 192 pp., hundreds of b&w and color illustrations. A near fine copy in dust jacket. "For two years the research team on Camera sifted through tens of thousands of photographs in great museums and private collections throughout..... More
London: Kegan Paul, 1883. Fourth edition. 8vo., viii, 280 pp., mounted Woodburytype frontispiece with tissue guard, 5 plates which include examples of albumen and Woodbuytypes, copper-plate print from heliograph, and electotype from heliograph, and a survey map; text illustrations, adverts. Publisher's decorated cloth. Rebacked with the original spine laid down... More
London: Henry S. King & Co., 1875. First English language edition. 8vo., xi, 288 pp., mounted Woodburytype frontispiece with tissue guard, 5 plates which include examples of albumen and Woodbuytypes, copper-plate print from heliograph, and electotype from heliograph, and a survey map; text illustrations, adverts. Publisher's cloth which is moderately... More
San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery in association with Bedford Arts, Publishers, 1989. Watkins, Carleton E. First edition. Square 4to., vii, (2), 219 (3) pp., frontis, 110 full-page plates, several folding. A fine, as new copy in the photo-illustrated dust jacket, sealed in the original shrink-wrap. Photographs made by Watkins in his... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. First edition. Oblong thick 4to., xi, 450 pp., numerous b&w and color photographs. A fine copy in a near fine, lightly rubbed, illustrated dust jacket. Contributions include the following essays: "Photography in Nineteenth-century Latin America: the European Experience and the Exotic Experience" by Boris... More