Trenton Falls, NY: J. R. Moore, ca, 1864-1866. 7 CDVs, each 2 5/16 x 3 13/16 inches. An albumen photograph on the front of each, with a hand-cancelled tax stamp on the reverse. Also, each is hand titled in ink, on the reverse. The Civil War popularized photography to a...... More
Paris: Héliographique des Chemins de Fer, Motteroz, 1879. Second edition. 12mo., [vi], 79 pp., 2 b&w lithographic plates. Original printed blue wrappers bound in a l;atter half calf with gilded spine decorations. Scattered foxing, with 2 engraved bookplates of former owners. Joints and edges are rubbed, with mild wrinkling to..... More
Paris: André Jammes, 1963. Negre, Charles. First edition. Oblong folio, 41 pp., 30 tipped-in collotype plates, 1 large folding collotype plate with tissue guard. Plain stiff wrappers in printed over wrapper, which has a collotype mounted on front. With plain acetate dust jacket that has a tiny closed tear at..... More
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
London: W. Kent & Co., and James Newman, 1859. Second edition. 12mo., xi, 98 pp., 22 illustrated adverts. Gilt-titled and decorated cloth over boards. The cloth is faded and is mildly worn at the tips, with a one inch separation at the spine, which extends to the front flyleaf; text..... More
Paris: Librairie des Auteurs et de l'Académie des Bibliophiles, 1867. Niépce, Nicéphore. First edition. 8vo., 282 pp., portrait frontispiece. The original printed paper wrappers are chipped along the foredge and bottom with a new spine cover added; tips bumped. A very good copy housed in a newly made clamshell box..... 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
NY: Tennant and Ward, 1935. Niepce, Nicephore. First U.S. edition. 8vo., [viii], 163 pp., [4] adverts. Publisher's green and patterned silver cloth. A fine copy. Victor Fouque's, La vérité sur l'invention de la photographie, 1867, was the first biography of Niépce; in it, Fouque argues that Niépce's role in the..... More
Paris: Librairie Militaire. J. Dumaine, 1862. First edition. 8vo., 31 pp., albumen photographic frontispiece, 1 leaf of diagrams, 1 large folding engraved plate. [bound with] D'Abbadie, A. RAPPORT SUR LA PLANCHETTE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE DE M. AUGUSTE CHEVALLIER. Extrait du Bulletin de la Société de Géographie, (Décembre 1862.) (Paris: Impriemerie de L...... 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
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, 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
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
Paris: Henri Lefebvre, 1935. First French edition. 4to., iii, 3 mounted plates, plus 144 b&w plates, most full-page, many with two images. Gilt-decorated paper over boards; new paper spine, with light chipping at the tips and edges. Very good. Photos by Nadar, Cameron, Le Secq, A.A. Turner, Disdéri, Marville, Frith..... 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
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
Philadelphia: Thos. H. McCollin & Co., 1886 - 1900. First editions. 8vos., variable paginations, with original photographs mounted throughout. 14 volumes. This unbroken run begins with Vol. 7, and concludes with Vol. 20. Acquired from the British Patent Office and bears their stamp throughout, often in the margin or surface..... 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