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
Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1981. First edition thus. 4to., numerous full-page b&w photos with text opposite. Illustrated stiff wrappers. The front wrapper is lightly creased, and the lower left corner on the rear wrapper is creased, else a near fine copy. SIGNED by the Photographer on the..... More
Barre, Mass. Barre Publishers, 1972. Mugnier, George Francois. First edition. Oblong 4to., 127 pp., b&w photographs with captions and text. Illustrated endpapers, cloth-backed boards. A fine copy in a rubbed pictorial dust jacket. George Francois Mugnier was the leading commercial photographer in New Orleans at the close of the nineteenth... 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
Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Reprinted from The Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 236, No. 3, September, 1943. Offprint. 8vo., 265-271 pp., illustration. Printed paper wrappers; moderate creasing along the top and bottom edges. Very good. An article discussing the first uses of photography, leading to James Renwick and Edward Antony's 1840... More
Raleigh: Nichols & Gorman, 1869. First edition. 8vo., 136 pp., large folding map with hand colored reference markings by Colton dated 1855. Very light occasional foxing and age-toning; newly rebacked with cloth. Nineteenth century owner's bookplate affixed to the blank front pastedown. Overall, a very good copy. More
NY: Printed by E. Conrad, City of New York, (1833). First edition. Broadside 19 1/2 x 28 inch., printed on silk. There are small holes, evenly spaced along the edges of the margins from a previous mounting, likely on a frame. The edges of the silk are left unfinished and... More
Urbana and Chicago: Chicago Historical Society/University of Illinois Press, 1989. First edition. Oblong small 4to., xvii, (3) 194 pp., 162 full-page b&w photos. Fine in pictorial dust jacket. Photos by: John Vachon, Russell Lee, Jack Delano, Dorothea Lange, Esther Bubley, Theodor Jung, Carl Mydans, Ann Rosenor and Edwin Rosskam. More
Album of 143 silver gelatin photographs, largely 33 x 26.5 cm or the reverse, printed on a warm and cold tone photographic stock, dry mounted on album leaves 40.6 x 38 cm, recto only with printed captions. Full blue morocco covers, lined in blue silk, gathered with screw posts and... More
NY: Hopkins & Seymour, January, 1806. First edition. 8vo., vi (1) 215 pp. Bound with; AN ANSWER TO WAR IN DISGUISE; OR, REMARKS UPON THE NEW DOCTRINE OF ENGLAND CONCERNING NEUTRAL TRADE. February, 1806. 8vo., 76 pp. Top margin of the first title page has been clipped; with evidence of... More
Amsterdam: Nicholas Visscher and Peter Schenk, Jr., 1715. Full sheet, 18.5 x 23.25 inches, with full margins and original color. Aside from a few small spots of foxing in the title panel, a very good example. The original plates of this Visscher map, ca. 1689 were sold to Peter Schenk... More
N.p. Westways, Automobile Club of Southern California, 1939. Weston, Edward. First edition. Folio, 49 pp., 130 photos. Cloth-backed photo-illustrated paper over boards. The board tips are rubbed with moderate wear. A few small smudges on the front free endpaper; else very good copy, internally bright. A scarce Weston item, issued... More