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

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., 35 publisher's adverts, 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..... More

Baltimore: Richard Walzl; John Cox, Book, Job and Poster Printer, 1872. Second edition. 12mo., original mounted albumen frontispiece with tissue guard, 179, [1] pp., illustrations, map. The printed and illustrated wrappers are also illustrated on the reverse. The wrappers are chipped at corners; a closed tear at the spine base..... More

San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/ NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1999. Watkins, Carelton. First edition. 4to., 228 pp., 105 full-page plates, including 4 gate-fold plates, other illustrations in text. Paper over boards, with photo-illustrated dust jacket. Fine, as new in the publishers shrinkwrap. Catalogue for a traveling exhibition..... More

's Gravenhage: Ter Algemeene lands drukkerij, 1833. First edition. 8vo., 61 pp., plus 4 plates (3 folding). Contemporary diced paper over boards, decorated with gilt, a.e.g. Ink owner's stamp on the blank verso to the title page. Lacking a tiny chip from the spine ends. Near fine. The Dutch and..... More

(Aberdeen): Aberdeen University Press in association with the University of Aberdeen, (1981). Wilson, George Washington. First edition. Oblong small 4to., x, 204 pp., 220 illustrations. A near fine copy in the photo-illustrated dust jacket. Wilson, the leading portrait photographer of Aberdeen in the 1850s, was an early innovator experimenting with..... More