Chicago: Geo. K. Hazlitt, 1900. First edition. 12mo., 66 pp., (12) adverts., 5 photographic plates tipped to colored mounts, other illustrations in text. A rubbed photographic plate mounted on upper board. The title page has been reattached on a tab; several ex-library stamps. A good copy. Includes 2 portraits by... More

Boston: NYGS / Little, Brown and Company, [1983]. Adams, Ansel. First edition thus. 8vo., x, 210 pp., numerous b&w photos and illustrations. The original price sticker is affixed to the front panel of the dust jacket. A fine copy. The New Ansel Adams Photography Series / Book 3, revised and... More

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

Paris: Librairie Plon, 1904-1908. First edition. Small 4tos., each volume approx. 700 pp., tipped-in and mounted plates, other illustrations in text, and illustrated adverts and appendices. 4 volumes: 1904, 1905, 1907 and 1908. All volumes in publisher's printed cloth, which is slightly soiled, with advert stamped on the top or... More

San Francisco: San Francisco Artspace, 1989. Babcock, Jo. First edition. Oblong 8vo., (12) pp., 10 b&w photos. Die-cut stiff wrappers. Very good. Jo Babcock transforms objects into pinhole cameras -- suitcases, paint cans, mailboxes, gallery spaces and even Volkswagen buses. Babcock received his BFA and MFA from the San Francisco... More

Garden City: Amphoto, 1973. Facsimile of 1855. with new material. 8vo., (7) 83 pp., plus illustrations. Very good in moderately soiled dust jacket. A classic in photographic literature. Bede (Bradley) wrote and illustrated this humorous instructional manual. More

Paris: Chez L'Auteur, [1861]. First edition. 16mo., 129 pp. Printed wrappers. A segment of the front wrapper, which was lacking, has been replace with no loss of text; author / title in holograph was added to the spine. A tear on the title page has been repaired on the blank... More

Paris: Leiber, 1862. First edition. 8vo., [ii], [2], 413, [blank 414], 419-420 pp. [i.e. 416 pages, and complete]. Original printed wrappers, bound in modern half brown morocco and marbled paper over boards with the spine in six compartments, titled in gilt. Publisher's address eradicated from the front wrapper with no... More

London: The Kinematograph Weekly, 1911. First edition. 8vo., v, [2], 271 pp., plus 40 pp. adverts. Gilt-titled green cloth. Previous owner's calling card affixed to the front pastedown and signature on the half-title page; dampstain to the lower portion of the front board through to corresponding portion of the third... More

Melun: Imprimerie Administratice, 1893. Nouvelle edition. Small 4to., lxxxiv, 148 pp., frontispiece, illustrated and charts in text. [bound with] IDENTIFICATION ANTHROPOMÉTRIQUE. INSTRUCTIONS SIGNALÉTIQUES. ALBUM: PREMIÈRE PARTIE. PLANCHES RELATIVES AUX OBSERVATIONS ANTHROPOMÉTRIQUES. [and] DEUXIÈME PARTIE. PLANCHES RELATIVES AUX RENSEIGNEMENTS DESCRIPTIFS. [and] TROISIÈME PARTIE. PLANCHES RELATIVES AU RELEVÉ DES MARQUES PARTICULIÈRES. Melun... More

NY: Arno Press, 1973. Facsimile of the 1853 first edition. 8vo., 104, 8, [4] pp. Silver cloth, titled and decorated with blue ink. Issued without a dust jacket. Fine. Issued in the reprint series, The Literature of Photography, this is a most complete and early American manual on the daguerreoype... More

Paris: Leiber; Leipzig: Jung-Treuttel; Madrid: C. Bailly-Baillère, 1864. First separate edition. 12mo., 35 pp., mounted photo plate frontispiece. Illustrated paper wrappers. Creased, occasional staining, else very good. Housed in a newly made morocco and cloth clamshell box. Blanquart-Evrard was a prolific inventor of photographic process and notable publisher of outstanding... 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