London: Taylor & Francis, Ltd., 1976 - 1997. First editions. 4tos. Printed stiff wrappers. 84 issues. Volume 1, No. 1 to Volume 21, No. 4. A long and unbroken run. Very good to fine. A scholarly journal, largely concerned with the early history of the medium, and the historical through...
Los Angeles: Balcony Press, 2003. First edition. Small 4to., frontispiece, 325 pp., numerous b&w and color illustrations and photos. Printed stiff wrappers. Fine, as new. A survey of the modernist movement in Los Andeles by such noteables as Jake Zeitlin, Merle Armitage, Arthur Millier, Henrietta Shore, Peter Krasnow, Paul Landacre...
London: Printed for Thomas Boys, 1817. First edition. 8vo., half-tile, xxv, 191 pp., [with] A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE APPARATUS & INSTRUMENTS EMPLOYED IN EXPERIMENTAL AND OPERATIVE CHEMISTRY, IN ANALYTICAL MINERALOGY, AND IN THE PURSUITS OF THE RECENT DISCOVERIES OF VOLTAIC ELECTRICITY. MANUFACTURE AND SOLD BY FREDRICK ACCUM, OPERATIVE CHEMIST...
Paris: E. Dentu, Libraire-Éditeur, 1861. First edition. 8vo., 47 pp. Illustrated wrappers. Light soiling to the wrappers, with scattered light foxing in the text. A very good copy. Menut Alexander Alophe, 1812 - 1883, studied under Paul Delaroche and Camille Roqueplan. As Pierre-Lin Renié wrote, "Alophe epitomizes the mediocre painter...
Paris: E. Dentu, Libraire-Éditeur, 1861. First edition. 8vo., 47 pp. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Later cloth and marbled boards. Tips of a number of leaves creased; ex-library of the Sociéte Française de Photographie with their deaccession stamp and minimal markings. Very good. Menut Alexander Alophe, 1812 - 1883, studied under Paul.....
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989. First edition. 4to., xii, 93 pp., profusely illustrated with b&w photo-illustrations. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Moderate wear; foxing along the foredge; else very good. Contributors include: Eugenia Parry Janis, Beaumont Newhall, Melissa Banta, Carney Gavin, James S. Ackerman, and others. With articles on the collections at...
Rio de Janeiro: Elsevier Editora Ltda. 2004. First edition. 8vo., xv, 281, [2] adverts., illustrations from drawings and photographs in text. Illustrated stiff wrappers with printed inner flaps. Fine. "The dissertation is based on exploratory research, covering the period during which the photographic image starts to be incorporated by the...
Seattle: Superior Publishing Co., 1964. Muybridge, E. First edition. 4to., 192 pp., fully illustrated with b&w photos. Very good in a lightly worn illustrated dust jacket. An important history which includes biographies and examples of photographers who were active in the west but seldom mentioned in other texts, i.e.; Duhem.....
NY: NYGS, 1975. First American edition. 4to., 285 pp., profusely illustrated in color and b&w. A fine copy in illustrated dw.
Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1977. Later printing. Thick 8vo., 703 pp., 313 plates. Near fine in the illustrated dust jacket that is toned on the front panel. An exceptionally well researched history of the science and art of photography through 1925.
Leipzig: VEB Fotokinoverlag, 1966. Third printing. Thick 8vo., 703 pp., 313 plates. A fine copy in the color illustrated dust jacket that is worn at the edges. An exceptionally well researched history of the science and art of photography through 1925.
Leipzig: Fotokinoverlag, 1965. Second printing. Thick 8vo., vii, 703 pp., 313 plates. Lower board tips lightly bumped and endpapers toned. A very good copy. An exceptionally well researched history of the science and art of photography through 1925.
Praha: ASCO, 1993. First edition. 8vo., 451 pp., numerous b&w illustrations from photos. Near fine in a very good illustrated dust jacket. An essential reference for the study of Czech and Slovakian photographers; each photographer's entry includes a biography, chronology, exhibition list and bibliography. Also includes a detailed list and...
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2001. First edition. 8vo., xi, 236 pp., b&w illustrations from photographs in text. Fine in the illustrated dust jacket.
Boston & Toronto: LIttle, Brown and Co., 1975. First American edition. 4to., 304 pp., profusely illustrated with color and b&w photos. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Beaton's history brings forward the biography and contributions of several little known photographers.
Leipzig: Fotokinoverlag, (1977). First edition. 8vo., 184 pp., 2 diagrams, 44 b&w photos. Printed stiff wrappers. Very good. Essay on the aesthetics of photography. Text in German.
Paris: The Author, 1858. First edition. 8vo., [iv], 447 pp. Contemporary quarter roan and marbled paper over boards. Mild rubbing at edges; shelf numbers and deaccession stamps of the Société Francaise de Photographie on the blank margin of the half-title and title page, a few blank lower tips are creased.....
Paris: Chez Dentu, et chez l'auteur, 1862. First edition. 8vo., [ii], 413, [blank 414], 419 - 420 pp. [i.e. 416 pages]. Quarter morocco and marbled paper over boards. Moderate foxing to the first and last few leaves. Light rubbing at the edges; a very good copy. Joseph Auguste Belloc, 1789...
Bern: Benteli Verlag und Zürich: Kunsthaus, 1979. First edition. 4to., 413 pp., illustrated with 917 b&w reproductions. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Near fine. A broad historical survey of the relationship between photography and painting; with artists' biographies.
Bern: Benteli Verlag und Zürich: Kunsthaus, 1977. First edition. 4to., 413 pp., illustrated with 917 b&w reproductions. Cloth. A near fine copy. A broad historical survey of the relationship between photography and painting; with artists' biographies.
Lille: Imprimerie L. Danel, 1869. First edition. 4to., Original printed front wrapper, 2 blanks, half-title, title, 61 pp., 14 leaves of plates with tissue guards, rear printed wrapper. Newly bound in half navy morocco and marbled paper over boards, spine in 6 compartments with raised bands and gilt titling, rules...
Paris - Lille: Didron; Chez L. Quarre, 1869 - 1870. First edition. 8vo., [ii], 561 pp. Contemporary quarter morocco gilt and cloth over boards, t.e.g., others untrimmed. The board tips are rubbed through and there is scattered foxing to the text. A near very good copy. LA PHOTOGRAPHIE, SES ORIGINES...
Geneva: Librairie Droz SA, 1981. Blanquart-Evrard. First edition. 8vo., 325 pp., 22 full-page b&w photos and facsimile plates, 555 images in small format. Printed stiff wrappers. Slight bump to the upper tip and light soiling to the glossy wrappers. Includes an extensive historical essay and full descriptions, including locations for...
NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1962 and 1972. First editions. 2 volumes. Small 4to., xvi, 335 pp.; xv, 535 pp. Gilt-titled cloth. Near fine set in dust jacket. Essential reference.
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1865. 8vo., 74 pp., 4 lithographic plates. String-tied, issued without wrappers. Near fine. The author disputes the claim that several images were photographically created in the eighteenth-century. They were actually made with a camera obscura. It was the author's grandfather, Matthew Boulton, a collaborator with James...
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