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

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: 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

London: Hazell, Watson, & Viney, 1899. Wall, E.J. Fifth edition. 12mo., vii, 104 pp., viii-xxi pp. (adverts), original carbon print mounted as frontispiece. The cloth is showing light fading from moisture and wear; tissue repair at the front hinge; text shows leght wear and edgetoning. A good copy. An excellent..... 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

Aberdeen: Printed by John Duffus, 1866. First edition. 8vo., 12 card leaves with mounted albumen photographs, followed by a descriptive letterpress leaf. Light foxing to a few descriptive leaves, heavier on the title page and last leaf; the albumen photographs are richly toned, with the usual light fading at the..... 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