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
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
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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: 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
Boston: Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1850-1871. First editions. 12mo., variable paginations, engraved frontispieces. 20 volumes. 21 years; 1850-1862, 1864-71. (1866 -67 issued as a single volume). A near complete run, lacking only the issue for 1863. All volumes bound in publisher's cloth over boards. Several volumes are ex-library with minimal..... 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
Philadelphia: Benerman & Wilson, 1871 - 1872. First editions. 4tos., variable paginations, each issue calls for a mounted photographic plate which is missing in 4 issues: Vol. 1, No. 7; Vol. 2, Nos.14, 15, 16. Decorated stiff wrappers. 2 volumes (23 issues). Each volume is housed in a newly-made clamshell..... 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