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..... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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