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..... More
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..... More
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. More
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..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2001. First edition. 8vo., xi, 236 pp., b&w illustrations from photographs in text. Fine in the illustrated dust jacket. More
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. More
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. More
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..... More
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. More
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. More
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..... More
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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..... More
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..... More
NY: McGraw-Hill, 1966. First U.S. edition. 4to., 367 pp., hundreds of illustrations. A very good copy in dust jacket that lacks several large pieces. More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2001. First edition. 8vo., xi, [378] pp.b&w and color plates in text. A fine copy in the illustrated dust jacket. More
Venezia: Marsilio, 1997. First edition. 8vo., 517 pp., [122] illustration in color and b&w from photographs and drawings. Color illustrated stiff wrappers with printed inner flaps. A very good copy. An exhaustive history of the projected image prior to the advent of cinema and the mechanisms employed. Includes extensive notes..... More
NY: G.K. Hall & Co., 1994. Annan, J. Craig. First ed. Small 4to., xx, 192 pp., illustrated. Cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket. Fine. J. Craig Annan (1864-1946), photographer and son of a photographer, played an important role in the fight for recognition of photography as an art in its own..... More
[Saskatoon: Association of Canadian Archivists], 1978. First edition. 8vo., 256 pp., b&w illustrations from photographs. Illustrated stiff wrappers, which are lightly rubbed; very good. Articles include: The Photographic Record of Pre-Confederation British Columbia by Joan M. Schwartz; Alexander Henderson: Nineteenth-Century Landscape Photographer by Stanley G. Triggs; Photographic Documentation and Buildings..... More
Mexico, D.F. Fonda de Cultura Económica, 1989. First edition. 4to., 111, (1) pp., over 45 full-page color and b&w plates after daguerreotypes. Photo-illustrated glossy stiff wrapper with inner flaps. Light wear to the edges of the wrappers, a very good copy. The title translates to: "On the polished surface of..... More
NY: Crown Publishers, 1978. First edition. Oblong 4to., 232 pp., index, over six hundered illustrations, many in color. . A near fine copy in the illustrated dust jacket. An excellent historical survey by the curator of the Kodak Museum in England. More
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1975. First edition. 4to., x, 180 pp., 110 b&w plates. A fine copy in a near fine pictorial dust jacket. These essays by twenty-one internationally known authorities in the field cover many facets of the history of photography. Essayists include: J. Adhémar, T. Barrow..... More
Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1972. Revised and enlarged edition. 4to., (xvi), 324 pp., b&w illustrations. A fine copy in the illustrated dust jacket that is lightly rubbed. SIGNED by the author. Greatly expanded from the 1964 first edition of 79 pp., issued in paper wrappers... More
NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, [1988]. First edition. 4to., 56 pp., 33 b&w photographs. Illustrated stiff wrappers. One tip bumped. Very good. Represented: Man Ray, Strand, Hine, Sheeler, Stieglitz, Rodchenko, Weston, Renger-Patzsch, Sander, Tabard, Umbo, Moholy-Nagy, Atget, Bellmer, Model, etc. More
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994. First edition. Oblong Small 4to., 112 pp., chiefly illustrated with b&w or toned stereo-views. A fine, as new copy in illustrated paper over boards (no jacket, as issued). An excellent survey and historical record. Includes stereopticon in rear pocket; bibliographical references and index... More
[Tempe, AZ: School of Art, Arizona State University], 1985. First edition. History of Photography Monograph Series Special Edition No. 1. 8vo., ix, 114 pp. Printed stiff wrappers. Fine. A collection of essays from 1853 - 1878 by: George B. Ayres, Cuthbert Bede, Valentine Blanchard, Sir David Brewster, Robert Hunt, Sir..... More