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Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils; G. Masson, Éditeur, 1895. First edition. 12mo., 226 pp. Quarter calf and marbled paper over boards, compartmented spine with raised bands, gilt decorations; rubbed with a short crack at extremities front joint; a few stains to the calf, and faint dampstains to the blank corners of a number of leaves. A better than good copy. Discusses the chemistry of photography, collodion, producing positives, fixing, and various processes. Count Aymar de la Baume Pluvinel (1860-1938) was an astronomer and photographer. Roosens and Salu No. 10359.

Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1891. First edition. 12mo.,viii, 213, [1] pp, figures in text. Publisher's original wrappers, bound in marbled paper over boards with a slightly rubbed leather spine label. The endpapers are lightly foxed. A fine, bright, un-opened copy. Roosens and Salu No. 1165.

Paris: [Vol. 1-4] Bureau de la rédaction; [vol. 5-6] Amyot, 1866. First editions. 6 volumes. 8vo., [Vol. 1] viii, 508 pp.; [Vol. 2] [iv], 488 pp.; [Vol. 3], [iv], 376 pp.; [Vol. 4] [iv], 390 pp.; [Vol. 5] [iv], 389 pp.; [Vol. 6] [iv], 411 pp.; hundreds of b&w wood engravings. Engraved seal vignettes on each title page. Contemporary binding of quarter morocco and marbled paper over boards with four raised bands with title and decorations in gilt on the spine. A few slight scuffs to the spines; there is scattered foxing in Vols. 1 & 2, and to a much lesser degree in the others. There is a dampstain at the margin of the last few leaves of Vol. 3, and a faint tidemark to the margin of the first few leaves of Vol. 6. Affixed to the front pastedown of the first volume is the label of a Parisian bookseller. A very good to near fine, complete set. Pierre-René-Marie-Henri Moulin du Coudray de la Blanchère, commonly known as Henri de La Blanchère, was born at La Flèche, 1821. His first studies were in… Read More

Paris: Amyot, 1859. First edition. 8vo., iv, 280 pp., 32 b&w figures in text. New binding of quarter calf with tips, marbled paper over boards, five raised bands on spine, with gilt titling. Light toning at the edges and slight intermittent foxing. Very good. A detailed manual covering portraiture and the art of photography, making and using collodion wet and dry plates, silver and uranium papers and using albumen and gelatin coatings. Pierre-René-Marie-Henri Moulin du Coudray de la Blanchère, commonly known as Henri de La Blanchère, was born at La Flèche, 1821. His first studies were in forestry, then natural sciences. In 1848, he adopts photography as an aide to his scientific work. By 1856, he has opened a photographic studio in Paris, perfected a waxed paper process based upon that of Gustave Le Gray, and became a member of the Société Francaise de Photographie. He was a prolific writer and experimenter, and exhibited his photographs until his death in 1880. Bellier de la Chavignerie,… Read More

Paris: Amyot, 1859. First edition. 8vo., iv, 280 pp., 32 b&w figures in text. New binding of quarter morocco with tips, marbled paper over boards, five raised bands on spine, with gilt titling. Occasional foxing and soiling at the untrimmed edges; slight bump to the text at the upper tip. The trimmed original printed wrappers are laid in. Very good. A detailed manual covering portraiture and the art of photography, making and using collodion wet and dry plates, silver and uranium papers and using albumen and gelatin coatings. Pierre-René-Marie-Henri Moulin du Coudray de la Blanchère, commonly known as Henri de La Blanchère, was born at La Flèche, 1821. His first studies were in forestry, then natural sciences. In 1848, he adopts photography as an aide to his scientific work. By 1856, he has opened a photographic studio in Paris, perfected a waxed paper process based upon that of Gustave Le Gray, and became a member of the Société Francaise de Photographie. He was a prolific writer and… Read More

Paris: Amyot, 1863. First edition. 8vo., 136 pp., 39 engraved illustrations. Light intermittent foxing; a portion of the blank margin of p. 95 - 96 is lacking. A very good copy in the original illustrated paper wrappers. A series of 224 short instructional articles, which comprise a complete course in photography, including albumen paper printing. WorldCat locates only nine copies, with George Eastman House, NYPL, Getty Research Institute and the National Gallery of Art Library being the only North American Holdings. Roosens and Salu failed to list this title.

Paris: Amyot, 1861. First edition. 8vo., 330 pp., 65 illustrations in text. Contemporary quarter leather with title and decorations in gilt with marbled paper over boards; edges and hinges rubbed; contents clean and very good. Presented in nine parts: the first part offers a comprehensive history starting with Euclid to about 1851; the second part discusses improvements, construction, panoramic, phenakisticope (or phénakisticope); the third section presents diverse theory; fourth apparatus and materials, different constructions; fifth - method of production; sixth collodion, silver, various processes and methods of operation; seventh - more on processes, albumen, collodion, etc.; eighth section describes positive paper, negatives, transparencies; and, the last portion discusses apparatuses that can be attached to the stereoscope: Claudet's Stereomonoscope, Telestereoscope, microscopiques, etc. Bellier de la Chavignerie, Manuel Bibliographie du Photographe Francais, 1863, No. 120. Roosens and Salu… Read More

Paris: A. Texier, 1854. First edition. 12mo., 235 pp. Contemporary quarter morocco gilt and marbled paper over boards. An early manual on the contemporary processes of albumen and collodion and the preparation of photographic chemicals. Roosens and Salu No. 6523. Bellier de la Chavignerie, Manuel Bibliographie du Photographe Francais, 1863, No. 78. OCLC locates only two copies; National Gallery of Canada and Bibliotheque Geneve.

Paris: A. Texier, 1854. First edition. 12mo., 235 pp. Original printed paper wrappers, which are soiled, edge chipped and bear the deaccession stamp of the S. F. P. (Société Française de Photographie) with repairs at the spine. The text has a few chemical splatter stains. Housed in a new custom made cloth clamshell box, paper label on spine. Very good. An early manual on the contemporary processes of albumen and collodion and the preparation of photographic chemicals. Roosens and Salu No. 6523. Bellier de la Chavignerie, Manuel Bibliographie du Photographe Francais, 1863, No. 78. OCLC locates only two copies; National Gallery of Canada and Bibliotheque Geneve.

Paris: Librairie Scientifique-Industrielle de L. Mathias (Augustin), 1847. 2 volumes. Thick 4tos., unpaged, illustrated. Half calf and cloth with gilt rules and title on spine, cloth slightly stained, spine and tips rubbed, scattered foxing, else very good. Contains early information regarding photography, lenses, panoramas, photoengraving, photolithography, sensitized papers, etc.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1972. First edition. 8vo., xix, 347 pp., profusely illustrated. A fine copy in the illustrated dust jacket that has one tiny spot on the front panel. An exhaustive and well written history from the Alpha Reflex to the Zephyr.

London: Percy Lund & Co, 1891. First editions. 8vos., each approximately 336 pp., illustrated with numerous engravings and from b&w photographs. 2 volumes as follows: Vol. 2, Nos. 13 - 24, January - December 1891; Vol. 3, Nos. 25 - 36, January - December 1892. Ex-library with stamps on title pages and endpapers of Vol. 3; Vol. 2 was rebacked with the chipped original spine laid-down; short tear at the base of the spine, Vol. 3. Presentation from H. Snowdon Ward, the editor, to Dr. Edward L. Wilson, in ink of the front endpaper of Vol. 2. Articles on all aspects of photography, including Astral Bodies, or Spirit Photography. This short-lived periodical began in 1890; it became the PRACTICAL AND JUNIOR PHOTOGRAPHER in 1903. Additional shipping charges may apply given the weight of this magazine.

Courbevoie (Près Paris): E. Lamy / Maurice Bry & Cie, Successeurs, 1903. Revised fifth edition. 8vo., 312, [3] pp., figures in text. Contemporary pebbled cloth, titled in gilt on the spine. Near fine. E. Lamy was a manufacturer of photographic papers with a factory in Courbevoie on the Seine. He first manufactured a silver bromide paper, later expanding into a range of carbon papers. A comprehensive treatise on carbon processes. Roosens and Salu No. 1617; a revised and enlarged edition. WorldCat does not locate copies of this expanded edition.

Seattle: Seattle Souvenir Service - and/or Alan Lande, 1974. First edition. Lande, Alan. Five loose photographic post cards 6 x 4 inches. Fine. An unused group of five postal cards of art objects using the Seattle Space Needle as the theme. OCLC locates 2 copies of an exhibition catalogue on the same theme by this artist.

Los Angeles: G. Ray Hawkins, 1979. Limited first edition. Oblong small quarto of 18 leaves of stiff art paper; comprised of a penciled limitation leaf initialed and dated 1978 by the artist and numbered 20/20; a leaf signed in pencil by G. Ray Hawkins, publisher, Los Angeles, 1979; followed by 17 leaves each with an original color Polaroid diptych, which is titled in ink by the artist and mounted within a debossed frame. Bound in quarter black calf and charcoal cloth with the artist and publisher in silver ink on the spine. Housed in a matching slipcase of calf and cloth. Fine. Victor Landweber, born in Washington D.C. 1941, received his B.A. from the University of Iowa, and his MFA from UCLA, studying with Robert Heinecken. Landweber describes his art: "The inspiration for the main flow of my photographic work comes from artists working in mediums other than photography- especially late Modernist painters, Surrealists, Dada, and conceptual artists whose works have suggested possibilities for… Read More

Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum and Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1968. Second printing. Lange, Dorothea. 8vo., 72 pp., 28 b&w plates with commentary. A fine copy in matching dust jacket, which is lightly rubbed.

Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum & Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1967. First edition. Lange, Dorothea. 8vo., 72 pp., 28 b&w plates with commentary. Illustrated cloth. A fine copy in matching dust jacket, which is lightly rubbed.

Oakland: The Oakland Museum, 1978. First edition. Lange, Dorothea. Oblong 8vo., 97 pp., over 100 b&w photos. Stiff wrappers; a near fine copy. The collection of Dorothea Lange's photos were donated to the Oakland Museum by her husband, Paul S. Taylor. Contributions to this publication were also made by Daniel Dixon, Joyce Minick and Paul Schuster Taylor.

NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1978. First edition. Lange, Dorothea. 8vo., xiii, 399 pp., illustrated with photos. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. An authoritative and comprehensive biography of this important photogrpher.

Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1948. First edition. Thick 4to., 716 pp., profusely illustrated with photos and vignettes. Illustrated self wrappers, few short tears at the spine ends, else very good, and unopened. An extensive treatment of the art of motion picture photography from the earliest time to date.