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Paris: La Librairie Encyclopédique De Roret, 1861. First edition. 12mo., errata, 308 pp., illustrations in text. Contemporary quarter calf gilt, which is chipped with a worm hole at the base of the spine; text is fine and bright. Near fine. An excellent general manual of contemporary photographic processes. Roosens and Salu No. 6541. Bellier de la Chavignerie, Manuel Bibliographie du Photographe Francais, 1863, No. 128.

Paris: La Librairie Encyclopédique De Roret, 1862. Revised second edition. 2 volumes. 12mo., xix, 256 pp., 71 pp.; xiii, 340 pp., illustrations in text and one folding plate which is lacking a small portion. Illustrated original wrappers, chipped at edges. Stamps from the Cromer Collection on each title and vol. 1 cover, edges toned and worn. The spines have been coated to preserve the chipped text. Housed in new clamshell box of linen over boards with spine label affixed; card divider between volumes. An excellent survey of photographic processes to date. The largest portion is devoted to the daguerreotype - Valicourt was a practitioner of the process and here provides full descriptions of apparatus and chemicals, plates (including daguerreotype) and the various paper processes in use: collodion, albumen and gelatin, etc. Also includes photomechanical techniques. Valicourt had previously written a few short pieces which appeared as chapters in texts by Smee, and a text on Blanquart-Evrard's paper… Read More

Paris: La Librairie Encyclopédique De Roret, 1851. Nouvelle édition, entièrement refondue, ornée de figures, et mise au courant des perfectionnements les plus récents. 16mo., xvi, 368 pp., 90 pp. publisher's catalogue, illustrations in text, and one large folding engraved plate with 36 figures. Quarter vellum gilt with spine label and marbled paper over boards. The original illustrated wrappers are bound in. An unusually fine and bright copy. An excellent survey of photographic processes to date. The largest portion is devoted to the daguerreotype - Valicourt was a practitioner of the process. Valicourt provides full descriptions of apparatus and chemicals, plates (including daguerreotype) and the various paper processes in use: collodion, albumen and gelatin, etc. Also includes photomechanical techniques. Valicourt had previously written a few short pieces which appeared as chapters in texts by Smee, and a text on Blanquart-Evrard's paper process from the mid 1840s; in this title he has… Read More

Buenos Aires: Sociedad Impesora Americana, 1943. First edition. Tall 8vo., 136 pp., with 12 full-page plates from photographs, printed in a variety of monochrome inks, including blue and rose. Blind embossed paper over boards, titled in gilt and black. Light chipping to the paper at the base of the spine and a sarape to the imprint on the rear board; as is always found with this title, the surface paper is lightly cracked at the spine; however, the joint is firm and unaffected. Issued without a dust jacket. Very good. The twelve illustrations by Augusto Ignacio Vallmitjana are described as "cinegraficas" when in actuality they are still camera images which evoke a cinematographic experience in their placement in the text and their dream-like qualities. See Fernández, Horacio, THE LATIN AMERICAN PHOTOBOOK, p. 59 - 61.

Antwerp: The Society, 1982. First edition. Square 8vos. Issue number 1 [1978] to number 12/13 [1982]; each quarterly issue approx. 20 to 40 pages. Stapled into printed stiff wrappers. Fine. Thirteen number in seven issues. Plus, Cumulative Index. Text in English, German and French. Includes abstracts of , biographies, collections, cameras, applications, conservation, iconography, restoration. listings of new books, catalogues, etc.

[Atlanta]: Trevor Arnett Library, 1955. First edition. 8vo., 4 pp., stapled into illustrated wrappers. Near fine. The Trevor Arnett Library at [Clark] Atlanta University, joined with Morehouse and Spellman to form the world's largest consortia of African American private institutions of higher education, located in central Atlanta.

Paris: Chez tous les librairies, 1860. Second edition. 16mo., 216 pp., albumen photographic frontispiece. Occasional light foxing. Contemporary quarter morocco spine titled and decorated in gilt, with rubbed marbled paper over boards. Early owner's ex-libris affixed to the front pastedown. A very good copy. This small book of literary portraits of Parisian dancers, actresses and prostitutes was written by Auguste Vermorel (1841 - 1871), a journalist with socialist leanings who was active in the Paris Commune. The frontispiece photograph by Pierre Petit shows three women in a raucous pose with legs kicked high. Although this title went through as many as 6 printings, WorldCat locates very few copies and only two of this second edition: New York Public Library and University of Newcastle.

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1886. First edition. 12mo., vi, 66 pp., photolithographic frontispiece with printed tissue guard. Publisher's printed wrappers. Very good. Roosens and Salu No. 8398.

New York: A Studio Book, The Viking Press, 1980. First U.S. edition. 4to., 192 pp., hundreds of b&w and color illustrations. A near fine copy in dust jacket. "For two years the research team on Camera sifted through tens of thousands of photographs in great museums and private collections throughout the world. Now the most fascinating of these photographs are brought together for the first time in this revealing history of photography. ..." from the inside flap.

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1900. First edition. Paperback. Small 8vo., xvii, 445 pp., 65 illustrations in text. New facsimile paper wrappers with fragments of original wrappers bound-in; first few leaves chipped at corners, with no loss of text A good, and unopened copy. Léon Vidal (1834-1906) was head of the Association of Musée des Photographies Documentaires, which he founded, and a professor of photography at the École des Arts Decoratifs. A survey of various methods of photomechanical reproduction, including formulary and methodology. Roosens and Salu No. 8191.

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1886. First edition. 12mo., 151 pp., engraved figures and charts. Full cloth with leather spine label in gilt. The cloth is damp-wrinkled and stained. The ink stsamp of a photographic society is on the front free flyleaf and one leaf of text. A good copy. This manual provides instructions for making negatives/positives for a variety of applications and includes: sensitometry, intensifying and reducing photographs, photomechanics, enlarging, etc. Roosens and Salu No. 6573.

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1881. First edition. Small 8vo., xiv, 246 pp., photoglyptie (Woodburytype) frontispiece with tissue guard by Liebert, plus another printed by Woodbury; illustrations in text. Half calf and marbled boards, spine with gilt title and rules; scuffing primarily at the top and bottom of the spine. Occasional scattered foxing. A very good copy. A nicely illustrated manual of Woodburytype processes, a mechanical method of producing carbon prints, and considered by many as the most realistic of the photomechanical processes. Léon Vidal (1834-1906) was head of the Association of Musée des Photographies Documentaires, which he founded, and a professor of photography at the École des Arts Decoratifs. Roosens and Salu No. 11126.

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1891. First edition. 12mo., xvi, 127 pp., frontis with tissue guard, 14 illustrations in text, folding diagram of Vogel's spectrographe with tissue guard and one plate with a mounted color chart of the visible color spectrum. Printed paper wrappers. A folded contemporary manuscript of six holograph pages concerned with the color spectrum, orthochromatic photography, etc., is laid-in. Front wrapper is creased with a short tear at the spine repaited with clear tape. Léon Vidal (1834-1906) was head of the Association of Musée des Photographies Documentaires, which he founded, and a professor of photography at the École des Arts Decoratifs. An early and important text that furthered the attainment of a true three color photography through spectrology and orthocromatics, the process by which photographs of colors are represented by their degree of intensity. Roosens and Salu No. 7667.

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1886. First edition. 12mo., 151 pp., engraved figures and charts. Half morocco and marbled boards, gilt title within raised bands on spine, t.e.g.; spine faded and light wear at tips. A very good and bright copy. This manual provides instructions for making negatives/positives for a variety of applications and includes: sensitometry, intensifying and reducing photographs, photomechanics, enlarging, etc. Roosens and Salu No. 6573.

Bruxelles: Bureau du Bulletin Belge de la Photographie, 1873. First edition. 8vo., 51 pp., later cloth-backed marbled paper wrappers. The title page bears the stamp of a chemist as well as a manufacturer of photographic chemicals (the later stamp also appears on 2 additional leaves). Occasional light foxing, toning and moderate wear. A near very good copy. The Autotype Fine Art Company of London, produced a unique form of collotype prints, a carbon transfer process. This manual revises and enlarges the 1870 manual by J. R. Sawyer. Roosens and Salu No. 586. OCLC locates a single copy at the Getty Research Institute.

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1881. First edition. Small 8vo., xiv, 246 pp., photoglyptie (Woodburytype) frontispiece with tissue guard by Liebert, plus another printed by Woodbury; illustrations in text. Half morocco and marbled boards, raised bands on spine with gilt title and rules, t.e.g. Occasional scattered foxing. A very good copy. A nicely illustrated manual of Woodburytype processes, a mechanical method of producing carbon prints, and considered by many as the most realistic of the photomechanical processes. Léon Vidal (1834-1906) was head of the Association of Musée des Photographies Documentaires, which he founded, and a professor of photography at the École des Arts Decoratifs. Roosens and Salu No. 11126.

Paris: Leiber, 1865. First edition. 12mo., [i], 51 pp, [2] pp, 160 tables, 45 pp, [1] pp, errata. Contemporary (publisher's?) cloth, titled in gilt on the upper cover and in blind on the spine. A fine copy. SIGNED and presented by the author on the blank front flyleaf. Appended to the text by Vidal is: MANUEL OPÉRATOIRE POUR L'EMPLOI D'UN PROCÉDÉ USUEL DE COLLODION SEC... by Charles Teisseire and Joseph Jacquemet. The first published exposure calculator and manual, and the prolific author's first book. Roosens and Salu No. 3712.

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1891. First edition. 12mo., xvi, 127 pp., illustrations in text, including one plate with a mounted color diagram of the visible color spectrum, and a folding diagram of Vogel's spectrographe with tissue guard. Quarter morocco and marbled boards, gilt-title within raised bands on spine. Some pencilled underlining and marks, and rubbing at the edges of the marbled paper, else very good. Léon Vidal (1834-1906) was head of the Association of Musée des Photographies Documentaires, which he founded, and a professor of photography at the École des Arts Decoratifs. An early and important text that furthered the attainment of a true three color photography through spectrology and orthocromatics, the process by which photographs of colors are represented by their degree of intensity. Roosens and Salu No. 7667.

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1891. First edition. 12mo., xvi, 127 pp., frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrations in text, including one plate with a mounted color diagram of the visible color spectrum, and a folding diagram of Vogel's spectrographe with tissue guard. Half morocco and marbled boards, gilt-title within raised bands on spine, t.e.g. The binding shows slight wear with one tip scuffed. A very good copy. An early and important text that furthered the attainment of a true three color photography through spectrology and orthocromatics, the process by which photographs of colors are represented by their degree of intensity. Roosens and Salu No. 7667.

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1879. First edition. Small 8vo., xiv, 284 pp., frontispiece is a phototypie by Quinsac with tissue guard, plus 3 full-page phototypie plates by C. Relvas, other illustrations in text. Half morocco and marbled boards, raised bands on spine with gilt title and rules, t.e.g. Scattered foxing, frontispiece and photo-plates loose and laid in. A very good copy. A well-illustrated manual covering phototypie, a collotype process utilizing greasy-ink on a gelatin plate. We presume this to be Vidal's own copy as it bears his round ink stamp on an endpaper and contains an additional two plates not found in other copies, which list only the frontis and another plate. Roosens and Salu No. 8290.