INSTANTANEOUS PHOTOGRAPHY
NY: The Scovill and Adams Company, 1895. First U.S. edition. 12mo., (viii), 95, [1], ii pp., adverts, illustrated. Printed stiff paper wrappers. Near fine. Roosens and Salu No. 5321. OCLC locates only seven copies. More
NY: The Scovill and Adams Company, 1895. First U.S. edition. 12mo., (viii), 95, [1], ii pp., adverts, illustrated. Printed stiff paper wrappers. Near fine. Roosens and Salu No. 5321. OCLC locates only seven copies. More
NY: Scovill Manufacturing Company, 1883. Abney. First American edition. 8vo., vii, 192 pp., 36 pp. adverts, engraved illustrations. Printed stiff wrappers. The lightly chipped and stained wrappers have been expertly repaired and attached with a new printed paper spine. Small piece torn from the top corner of the first blank;... More
London: Puiper & Carter, 1874. First trade edition after a privately printed edition. 12mo., viii, errata slip, 168 pp., viii adverts, illustrations in text, adverts. Original printed wrappers lightly worn and soiled, hand lettered "ABNEY '74" on the blank spine. Very good. Photomechanical techniques and detailed information on a wide... More
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... 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
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1970. Adams, Ansel. First revised edition. 8vo., 304 pp., illustrated. Near fine in a slightly worn pictorial dust jacket. For those who still use film and the darkroom, an essential reference and manual. For those of the digital era, yes, even you can benifit from... More
NY: Scovill and Adams, 1892. Fourth edition. 8vo., 215 pp., illustrations in text, plate with tissue guard. Newly bound in paper over boards, with printed label on front. Slight foxing especially at edges, faint stains, a few tips creased; else very good. This manual leads the reader through darkroom procedures... More
NY: Scovill and Adams, 1897. Sixth edition, eighth thousand. 8vo., 215 pp., illustrations in text. Publisher's decorative illustrated paper wrappers. Previous owner's neat stamp on the title page; a small sliver is lacking from the blank rear wrapper; else near fine. This manual leads the reader through darkroom procedures, printing... 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: 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..... More
NY: Lustrum Press, 1980. Erwitt, Elliott. First edition. 4to., 175 pp., b&w plates. Near fine in photo-illustrated stiff wrappers. Statements and photos by: Robert Adams, Mark Cohen, Judy Dater, Elliott Erwitt, Ralph Gibson, John Gossage, Horst, Robert Mapplethorpe, Mary Ellen Mark, et al. 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
NY: NYGS, 1975. First American edition. 4to., 285 pp., profusely illustrated in color and b&w. A fine copy in illustrated dw. 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
Paris: MM. Puech, [1884]. First edition. 8vo., 15 pp. Printed wrappers. Near fine. Eder discusses, in his chapter "Film Photography and the Rapid Growth of Amateur Photography," (HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY) the advantages of using light sensitive paper over glass plates and lists the various inventors who advanced the processes. He... More
Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, Gendre et Successeur de Bachelier, [1854]. First edition. 8vo., xvi, 296 pp., charts and tables. Original printed stiff wrappers. Chipping to edges of wrappers, pages and wear to spine; light scattered. A good copy, housed in a new clamshell box of linen with a paper spine label. Charles... More
Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, [1858]. Second edition. 8vo., xx, 412 pp., 4 pp. prospectus at rear, charts and tables. Scattered foxing, else very good in contemporary cloth-backed marbled paper over boards. Charles Louis Barreswil, 1817 - 1870, studied chemistry under Jules Pelouze, and later directed his laboratory, working with Claude Bernard. After... More
Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, [1858]. Second edition. 8vo., xx, 412 pp., charts and tables. A fine and bright copy in contemporary gilt titled and decorated quarter morroco and paper over boards. Charles Louis Barreswil, 1817 - 1870, studied chemistry under Jules Pelouze, and later directed his laboratory, working with Claude Bernard. After... More
Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, Gendre et Successeur de Bachelier, [1854]. First edition. 8vo., xvi, 296 pp., 16 pp. publisher's catalogue, charts and tables. Bound in quarter black morocco and marbled paper over boards. The spine is six compartments and titled in gilt. Original printed stiff wrappers are bound in. An occasional light... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1890. First edition. 8vo., [iv], 74 pp., frontispiece collotype from a photograph accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive text, illustrations in text. Printed paper wrappers. Slightly toned. Near fine, and unopened. The first manual of aerial photography specific to using kites. Roosens and Salu No. 5678. More
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1846. Fourth ed. 2 volumes. 12mo., [vol. I] xxiii, 528 pp.; [vol. II] xii, 548 pp.; each with engraved portrait frontispieces. Half calf and marbled boards. The tips are rubbed; light foxing to portraits and title page. A very good copy. A vast survey including information... 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: Auguste Aubry, 1863. First edition. 12 mo., 22 pp. Original printed wrappers. Mild marginal dampstain and an occasional spot of foxing at the edges. A very good copy housed in a pamphlet case of cloth over boards with printed labels. By 1854, Émile Bellier de la Chavignerie, was a.... 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: 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