NY: Scovill Manufacturing Company, 1886. Abney. Second American edition. 8vo., vii, 192 pp., 36 pp. adverts, engraved illustrations. Printed stiff wrappers. The wrappers are lightly chipped, worn and stained; the first 75 pages have a small stain limited to the fore edge. Owner's ink stamp on the title page. A...... More

London: Piper & Carter, 1882. Fifth edition. 12mo., viii, errata slip, 314 pp., viii adverts, illustrations in text, adverts. Contemporary quarter leather and marbled paper over boards, scuffed and rubbed, rebacked with the original spine laid-down. A good copy. Photomechanical techniques and detailed information on a wide variety of negative..... 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

Binghamton, NY: Agfa Ansco Corporation, [1936]. Revised to January 1, 1936. Small 8vo., [52] pp., illustrations from photographs. Stiff paper wrappers, which are rubbed; one 4 pp. signature is detached, small stain to the blank margin of a few leaves, ink additions and revisions to some prices. Very good. [with]..... More

Binghamton, NY: Agfa Ansco Corporation, 1940. 8vos., 40 pp., illustrations from photographs. Pictorial stiff wrappers, which are lightly rubbed. Very good. A priced and indexed catalogue of cameras, films, papers and chemicals. More

New York: Berlin Aniline Works, [ca. 1900]. 12mo., 88, pp., [viii] blanks. Illustrations from engravings. Stiff paper wrappers, stain on rear wrapper. Signatures loose and laid-in wrappers; else very good. Discusses and describes Agfa developers in substance and ready for use, intensifiers, reducers, isolar plates and flat films. Includes useful..... More

[Berlin: Agfa [Actien-Gesellschaft für Anilin-fabrikation], ca. 1915. 12mo., 296 pp., illustrations from b&w photographs and drawings. Stiff paper wrappers. Very good. Complete instructions for the beginner, from choice of cameras through film developing, printing the picture and printing-out papers, exposures, dark room and its illumination, etc. Makes specific reference to..... More

New York: Anthony and Scovill Co., 1903. 8vo., 222 pp., illustrated with engravings. Lacking the wrappers; chipping and tears to the first 2 leaves of adverts. Good. In 1901, the two largest American manufacturers and distributors of photographic equipment and supplies joined as the Anthony & Scovill Co.; in 1907..... 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

Hermance: Michel Auer, 1972. First edition. Square 8vo., 144 pp., Printed stiff wrappers. Near fine. Detailed entries for 968 items, including daguerreotypes, callotypes, and every form of camera and apparatis for still and motion pictures, all represented by a thumbmail photograph. More

London and West Ealing: The Autotype Company; New York: George Murphy, agents for the USA, [ca. 1930]. Second edition. 8vo., 35 pp., illustrated. Stiff wrappers with cloth spine; cracked at the gutter between p. 6 - 7, but firm. Very good. "The present illustrated edition ... has been entirely re-written..... More

London: Baird & Tatlock, 1894. 8vo., 291 pp., over 1500 illustrations from engravings. Gilt-titled publisher's cloth; hinges show slight cracking, edges stained red. Paper repair to the front blank flyleaf. Owner's neat signature on the title page. Very good. A priced catalogue of chemicals and the various apparatus required by..... More