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New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1887. First edition. 8vo., vi, 176 pp. Previous owners' signatures on the endpapers. Marginal notes in pencil on several pages of the text. Detailed genealogy of the Porcher family in ink, on the "notes" page provided. Contemporary quarter leather with cloth over boards; the spine and tips are considerably rubbed and scuffed. Occasional faint foxing and toning to the text. A good or better copy. Owners' signatures are those of the Porcher family, dated 1887 and 1901. This book gives a comprehensive genealogy of the prominent families of South Carolina, starting from 1689 when the first 180 families of French Huguenot descent first arrived in Carolina, and settled on the Santee, in St. James Parish. The Porcher family is among these prominent families, and are interelated with the Wickham, Peyres and DuBose families. Largely a history of Craven and Berkeley Counties, South Carolina.

NY: The Museum of Modern Art, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Cartier-Bresson, Henri. Oblong small 4to., 152 pp., 125 b&w photos, 4 in color. A fine, as new copy in dust jacket. Published as the catalogue for a traveling exhibition which originated at MoMA.

Colorado Springs, Colorado: American Numismatic Association, 1984. Reprinted from The Numismatist. 8vo., 20 pp., b&w illustrations. Stapled into stiff wrappers. Minor creasing to the lower tip. Very good. Includes an essay on Marcus A. Root, daguerreotypist, author and historian; a bibliography and illustrated catalogue of photrographic tokens, listed by state and city of the daguerreian gallery. Roosens and Salu No. 10426. Scarce.

San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1986. First edition. Galgiani, Phillip. Square 8vo., (8) folding pages, 20 b&w images. Spiral bound illustrated stiff wrappers. The copy of the University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, with its neat stamp on the title-page. Near fine. An installation by this California conceptual photographer; includes map of installation; exhibition checklist and biography.

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo., xv, 388 pp., illustrated. Cloth. Very good. A manual for photomechanical processes, especially for the illustration of books. With chapters on color printing.

Paris: Ch. Mendel, 1895. Second edition. 12mo., 109, [2] pp., adverts. Publisher's wrappers, which are lightly rubbed at the joints; text toned. Very good. Roosens and Salu No. 1847, only listing this 1895 seconded edition and a 1913 later printing.

San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1974. First edition. Owens, Bill. Square 8vo., unpaged, b&w photos. Stiff wrappers. A fine copy. Includes photos by: Bill Owens, Lew Thomas, Ellen Brooks, James Friedman, and others.

[San Francisco]: Sun in Scorpio/ Flash Publications, 1993. First edition. Gatewood, Charles. 4to., 64 unnumbered pages, full-page b&w plates from photos. Fine, as new in photo-illustrated dust jacket. Limited to 2000 numbered copies, SIGNED. A compilation from Gatewood's various "bodies" of work: Sidetripping in New Orleans, pierced bodies, tattoos, and outsider images of ritual body art. Introduction by A. D. Coleman.

Paris: J.J. Dubochet et Cie, 1844. First edition. 8vo., iv, 248 pp., illustrations in text. Contemporary binding of quarter red calf with marbled paper over boards, gilt rules and titling on spine. In the last 50 pages there is intermittent chemical splashing, primarily to the blank margins; still a very good copy. Gaudin's early and definitive manual covering every aspect of daguerreotyping including making, exposing and processing the plates, electroplating the daguerreotype plates for making reproductions, and making portraits; it also includes complete instructions for making Talbot's calotypes. Bellier de la Chavignerie, Manuel Bibliographie du Photographe Francais, 1863, No. 31. Roosens and Salu No. 2855.

Paris: Alexis Gaudin, 1861. First edition. 12mo., 212 pp. Quarter calf and marbled paper over boards, original printed wrappers bound-in. Occasional staining which is more pronounced on the last 15 pages. A very good copy. This manual provides a short history of the discovery and instructions for making daguerreotypes, glass plate and paper negatives, albumen and other printing papers, and stereographs, bringing the practitioner to current usage. A lengthy formulary follows. Bellier de la Chavignerie, Manuel Bibliographie du Photographe Francais, 1863, No. 127. Roosens and Salu No. 6539. Scarce, with OCLC locating only seven copies.

Paris: J.J. Dubochet et Cie, 1844. First edition. 8vo., iv, 248 pp., illustrations in text. Recent binding of half morocco with marbled paper over boards, with five raised bands and titling in gilt on the spine. The title page and first few leaves show an early dampstain and foxing; the foxing diminishes to light for the majority of the text. A very good copy. Gaudin's early and definitive manual covering every aspect of daguerreotyping including making, exposing and processing the plates, electroplating the daguerreotype plates for making reproductions, and making portraits; it also includes complete instructions for making Talbot's calotypes. Bellier de la Chavignerie, Manuel Bibliographie du Photographe Francais, 1863, No. 31. Roosens and Salu No. 2855.

Paris: N.-P. Lerebours; Bachelier; London: Claudet, 1842. Third edition. 8vo., 77 pp., large folding plate, [1], [16] catalogue. Quarter morocco and marbled boards with the moderately soiled original printed wrappers bound-in. On pages 7 and 10, a short closed tear at the blank gutter margin has been repaired with clear archival tissue, and two short breaks at the blank fore edge margin of p. 73 has also been repaired with archival tissue. A near fine and bright copy. Marc Antoine Augustin Gaudin (1804 - 1880) a skilled French chemist and an early practitioner of the daguerreian process, joined with Noël-Paymal Lerebours (1807 - 1873) an optician and instrument maker, to published this work on an improved daguerreian process: one that made possible shorter exposures and would allow for portraiture. Lerebours' lenses and cameras were among the first commercially marketed; it was before the end of 1839 that Lerebours had constructed a large daguerreotype camera, which produced pictures of 12 x 15… Read More

Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Klett. Oblong 4to., 128 pp., 67 b&w and color plates, text illustrations. Very good in dust jacket which is faded on the spine. Includes: Susan Rankaitis, Richard Misrach, Mark Klett, Wendy MacNeil, John Pfahl, Barbara Kruger, Eileen Cowin.

Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1891. First edition. 8vo., vi, 36 pp., illustrated. Printed paper wrappers; spine chipped and label removed from front wrapper. A few small pencil marks in margins, rear wrapper creased. Near very good. A clearly written manual for making ferrotypes, also known as tintypes, including a technique for using mica as a support. With the stamp of Abel Buguet, the author of a number of photographic books. Roosens and Salu No. 3882. OCLC locates five copies.

Paris: A. Guyot, 1834. Fifth edition. 8vo., 203 pp., 5 folding engraved plates. Contemporary binding of quarter morocco and marbled paper over boards; raised bands with gilt detail and titling on spine; all edges marbled. Slight wear to tips; pages toned with moderate intermittent foxing, which is more pronounced on the plates. A near very good copy. Charles Gavard (1794 - 1871) was an accomplished engraver, lithographer, owner of a printing shop, engineer and inventor. He invented two optical devices, the pantograph and the diagraph, which allowed for the acurate reproduction of art works, plans, maps, etc., in any desired scale. The diagraph was similar to the camera lucida although much more accurate due to its bezel and mirrors and a cursor that held the pencil or engraving tool. SIGNED by the author on page facing title. WorldCat fails to locate an earlier edition than the 1831 second edition with 80 pp. of text and fewer leaves of plates. It does locate three copies of the 1834 fifth… Read More

NY: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Genthe, Arnold. 8vo., (x), 57 pp., frontis, plus 46 full-page b&w photos. The binding is moderately rubbed and soiled, more so on the spine. The mounted photograph on the front cover is lacking a small chip at the edge, and there is a very small bump to the upper tip, affecting only the first few leaves. A better than good copy. Originally presented by W. H. C. to C. N. in January of 1909 (in pencil) and in 1936, SIGNED and presented by Genthe to photographer, Robert Disraeli.

NY: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913. Enlarged second ed. Hardcover. Genthe, Arnold. 8vo., ix, 208 pp., 91 gravure plates. Gilt-embossed cloth. A few light spots of foxing on the endapers and adjacent leaves, else a very good copy. A prime example of the concealed miniature hand held camera used to document a society closed off from Western culture - a foreign city within the city of San Francisco. This enlarged edition contains twice as many images, and the printing quality of the photogravures is far superior to the halftones of the first edition.

Paris: Drouot-Richelieu, 1994. First edition. Oblong 4to., unpaginated, fully illustrated with 117 monotone plates from calotype negative and postive photographs. Illustrated dust jacket over plaine stiff wrappers. Faint wrinkling at the upper gutter of most leaves. Laid-in is the list of estimated prices. Catalogue for the exhibition and auction sale. Text in French and English.

Paris: Au Bureau du Cosmos et Chez Delahaye, 1855. First edition. 8vo., 104 pp. Printed wrappers are slightly edgeworn and show age-toning. Very good or better. Housed in a new quarter cloth and pastepaper clamshell box. Stéphane Geoffray (1827-1895) banker, lawyer and photographer, was the inventor of the waxed paper process with cerolein. This was an improvement upon Gustave Le Gray's waxed paper process and produced sharper and faster results. This and a similar collodion process for glass were described in a paper published in 1855. This manual covers the sensitizing and processing of photographic papers, with details about gelatin coatings, making this among the earliest reference to suggest a viable commercial manufacturing of photographic papers. Not listed in Bellier de la Chavignerie, Manuel Bibliographie du Photographe Francais, 1863. Roosens & Salu No. 7808. WorldCat locates copies at George Eastman House, Getty Research Center, University of Texas - Harry Ransom Center, National… Read More

New York: George Murphy, Inc, 1930. 8vo., 212 pp., illustrated. Printed paper wrappers, which are slightly stained. Very good. Established in 1878, the George Murphy company was largely a distributor of photographic supplies and equipment for the amateur and professional photographer and cinematographer. They acted as the exclusive agents for Autotype Carbon Tissue, Central Dry Plates, Autotype Dybro Materials, Wynne Exposure Meters, Nego Products, Belcolor Three-color Film, etc. Prices are listed for all items.