Paris: A. Gaudin, 1859. Third edition. 8vo., 600 pp., [4] adverts, 128 illustrations on 10 folding pages, including 1 chromolithograph. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled paper over boards and paper spine label. Partially opened between the half-title and title page; otherwise, a very good and bright copy. This is the..... More
Paris: A. Gaudin et Frère, 1856. Second edition. 8vo., 400 pp., plus 4 engraved folding plates and one heliogravure plate, which is detailed with a full tonal range, [3] adverts. Later binding of quarter calf gilt, and marbled paper over boards. The blank lower margin of the title page bears..... More
Paris: Leiber Éditeur, 1862. First edition. 8vo., 212 pp., illustrated. New facsimile paper wrappers. Staining and toning to several leaves,with some tips mildly chipped with no loss of text. A good copy. Housed in a newly made clamshell box with a facsimile of the title page affixed to the upper..... More
Paris: Leiber Éditeur, 1862. First edition. 8vo., 212 pp., iv adverts, illustrated. Later black linen with a morocco spine label, original printed wrappers, which are slightly worn, bound in. Occasional light foxing. A very good copy. Although the title is similar to his earlier, and frequently revised and expanded, TRAITÉ..... More
Paris: Administration du "Bulletin de L'imprimerie" 1888. First edition. 8vo., ix, 343 pp., 6 plates, text illustrations, adverts. Printed paper wrappers, with a short chip lacking at the base of the spine. Near fine. A review of printing techniques, including stereotype, electro-galvanography, photogravure, phototypie, photochromie, and typochromie. More than a...... More
Dobbs Ferry, New York: Barbara Morgan, Willard & Barbara Morgan Archives, [c. 1980]. Morgan, Barbara. Poster, single sheet 26 x 20 inches [66.04 x 50.8 cm]. Fine. SIGNED by the photographer beneath the image on the right. Barbara Morgan (1900 - 1992) was an accomplished photographer, and co-founder of the..... More
Dobbs Ferry, New York: Barbara Morgan, Willard & Barbara Morgan Archives, [c. 1980]. Morgan, Barbara. Poster, single sheet 26 x 22 inches [66.04 x 55.88 cm]. Fine. SIGNED by the photographer beneath the image on the right. Barbara Morgan (1900 - 1992) was an accomplished photographer, and co-founder of the..... More
Silver gelatin photograph, 12 3/4 x 10 5/16 in. [32.3 x 27.3 cm.], printed on unmounted photographic stock, 17 x 15 3/8 in. SIGNED and dated in ink by the photographer beneath the image on the right, and titled in ink on the lower left margin. Additionally, signed and titled..... More
Tokyo: Haga Books, 1972. Moriyama, Daido. First edition. 4to., unpaged b&w and color photo-plates. Stiff wrappers. Faint toning on wrappers; bookseller's ticket affixed to verso of front wrapper. Housed in the publisher's photo-illustrated card slipcase, which has a crack at the spine and moderate wear. A very good copy. Highly..... 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
London: Chapman & Hall, 1901. Muybridge, Eadweard. First edition. Oblong folio, 280 pp., 86 of 87 plates from photographs, plus additional plates, 4 adverts. Gilt-titled red cloth; the lower cloth tips are rubbed, expertly rebacked with the original spine laid-down with new front and rear endpapers. Lacking p. 107 -..... More
Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun-sya, 1975. Narahara, Ikko. First edition. Square folio, (226) pp., 101 full-page photographs, with titles on opposite leaves. A fine copy aside from a few tiny flecks of blue ink, which lifted from the spine; housed in the publisher's near fine paper over boards slipcase with paper spine..... 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
New York: Oxford University Press, 1927. First edition. 12mo., xvi, 1029 pp. Publisher's navy blue cloth, titled in gilt on the spine. Tears at the spine ends, tips rubbed through; a well used copy. Beaumont Newhall's copy, SIGNED with his pencil signature on the front free flyleaf, dated 1932. Additionally..... More
London: Printed for Knight and Lacey, 1825. First edition. Thick 8vo., [viii publisher's adverts], xiv, 795 [1] pp., folding frontispieces, [95] numerous plates (some folding, including diagrams). Contemporary binding of marbled paper over boards, backed in thick green paper with a printed spine label; boards and corner rubbed and chipped..... More
Paris: Alexis Gaudin et Frères, 1855. First edition. 8vo., xxiv, 140 pp. Lacking the engraved portrait frontispiece. Quarter calf and marbled paper over boards, gilt-title within gilt rules on spine, which is moderately rubbed. [bound with] Blanquart-Évrard, M. [Louis Désiré] TRAITÉ DE PHOTOGRAPHIE SUR PAPIER; AVEC UNE INTRODUCTION PAR M...... More
Richmond: West & Johnson, 1863. First edition thus. 12mo., xiii, (i), 14-216 pp., with 12 plates (two folding). There are childish pencil scribblings on the table of contents, and on 3 of the plates. Pale blue cloth with the original paper label affixed to the upper board. The paper label..... More
Paris: Administration (Imprimerie A. Lahure), 1883. First edition. Folio [18 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches] unpaged, profusely illustrated with b&w and color lithographs, including vignettes, full page, and some double page. Decorated cloth, printed in colors. A near fine and bright copy. PARIS ILLUSTRÉ, an elaborately illustrated periodical, commenced publication..... More
Paris: Gauthiers-villars, 1885. Second edition. 12mo., 80 pp., mounted photographic frontispiece with printed tissue guard. The tissue guard has a closed tear. [bound with] Petit, A.[Auguste] Pierre. LA PHOTOGRAPHIE ARTISTIQUE: PAYSAGES, ARCHITECTURE, GROUPES ET ANIMAUX. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1883. First ed. 12mo., 46 pp. Very good. [bound with] Colson, R. [René]..... More
NY: Simon and Schuster, 1960. Penn, Irving. First edition. 4to., 184 pp., more than 250 color and b&w plates. A fine copy in the dust jacket that has a tiny tear and crease at the crown of the spine, housed in the photo-illustrated slipcase, which also is minimally worn and..... More
NY: Grossman, 1974. Penn, Irving. First edition. Oblong 4to., 96 pp., 76 b&w captioned photos interspersed with text. A fine copy in a near fine and slightly toned photo-illustrated dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by the photographer on the half-title page. Penn would pack his backdrop and travel the world..... More
Rochester: Eastman Kodak Company, 1910. First edition. Oblong 4to., (ii) frontis, 7 - 67 pp., 98 b&w photographs. Cloth over boards with buckram spine. The front board is warped and the cloth faintly stained; the cloth on the rear is more prominently stained; spine is somewhat mottled. Issued without a...... More
Paris: Leiber, 1864. First edition. 12mo., vii, 287 pp., illustrated from engravings. Contemporary half morocco gilt and marbled paper over boards. Slight rubbing at the tips with the previous owner's ink signature on the first blank leaf; the owner has also written his name "C. CABOCHE" across the top edge..... More
Albany, NY: The Photographic Society of America, 1935 - 1958. First editions. 8vos. and 4tos., variable paginations, illustrated with b&w photographs. 17 volumes. Bound in gray buckram over boards, wrappers bound in. The wrappers of a few early issues are lightly soiled; stain on the rear board of one volume..... 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. The blank margins of the plates are foxed, not affecting the images. The illustrated wrappers are moderately soiled and rubbed. In..... More