London: Constable and Company, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 5" x 7.5", pp xi, 146, illustrated with 64 figures, indexed. Original blue cloth, mild spine lean, chipping to head of spine, small split in cloth along rear joint. Internals clean and sound. Embossed "presentation copy" stamp on title page, but no indication of to whom this copy was presented. Baker, who pioneered methods for transmitting photographs telegraphically, writes in the Preface: "The desire to have news at the earliest possible moment, and the recent demand for the public to have 'news in pictures,' has opened up the field for a new science, which is a peculiar mixture of electricity, optics, and photoengraving. The telegraphed picture at first looked upon as a marvel, now occasions little or no surprise, which means that it is sufficiently like an ordinary photograph to pass muster among other pictures in the newspaper in which it appears." (Item #15162)

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1865. Hardcover. Good. 5" x 7.5", pp 283, [5] ads. Rebound in modern brown cloth with paper spine label; endpapers replaced. Occasional soiling/chemical stains in the text.This work is a substantial revision of the author's earlier work, The Ambrotype Manual, which was published in 1856 and rapidly went through several editions. The Photograph Manual appeared first in 1862. This unspecified edition is further enlarged and is the first to contain the Appendix, which adds information on the negative bath and improvements to the developing and collodion processes. (Item #15185)

Philadelphia: A.Hart, Late Carey and Hart, 1853. Hardcover. Good+. 4.75" x7", pp [4], 15-224, illustrated with engravings. Original red cloth boards, rebacked with small part of original spine laid down. Chemical stains to rear board and edges of text block, occasionally affecting the margins only. Binding sound. Signature of Robert Freeland of the Proctor and Gamble Chemical Laboratory, Cincinnati, dated 1876, on front free endpaper. First American edition, combining two works by Croucher and one by Le Grey, and including much information on the apparatus, materials, and methods for several early photographic processes. (Item #15160)

Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1883. Hardcover. Near Fine. Later printing (first published 1877). 5.5" x 8", pp vi, 158, with 112 illustrations, index. Original brown pebbled cloth with beveled edges, gilt lettering on upper board and spine. Light rubbing to extremities, staining to rear board, else fine. An American physicist and electrical engineer, Dolbear (1837-1910) was a longtime Professor at Tufts College, as well as an associate of Thomas Edison. This is primarily a work of physics, but provides useful information about methods and apparatus for projecting photographic images. (Item #15161)

New York: E. & H.T. Anthony, 1881. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Translated from the German by Horace Wilmer. 5"x 7", pp viii, 138, [10] ads. Original teal cloth stamped in gilt and black. Some pale staining to upper board and spine, all else clean and sound. Eder (1855-1944) was an Austrian scientist who specialized in the chemistry of photography. This work includes a theoretical and practical history of photographic emulsions as well as providing formulas and instructions for the preparation of emulsions. (Item #15173)

Cincinnati and Louisville: Gatchel & Hyatt, 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 5" x 7.5", pp. viii, 9-200, [28], complete as issued, with two sample tintypes mounted with printed over-mats on the front and rear pastdowns. An empty printed Estabrooke sleeve for holding a ferrotype is laid in. Original purple cloth, sunned at the spine and with a few chemical stains. Some foxing to the over-mats, contents otherwise clean, binding sound. This popular early manual, which provides detailed instructions for making positives on enamelled iron and touts the ferrotype's "superiority over all other positive pictures," is reportedly the first book to contain original images on a material other than paper. (Item #15174)

New York: E. & H.T. Anthony, 1890. First Edition. Softcover. Good. pp. 118, 4 (publisher's ads). Wrappers lightly soiled and detached but present. Text clean and complete. A collection of prize-winning articles submitted to a competition held by Amateur Photographer, a British journal founded in 1884 (and in 1890 edited by Hastings) to educate and support the growing international ranks of photography enthusiasts--men and women with the leisure time and money for serious pursuit of the art. This book collects the first, second, and third place essays in six categories: cameras, lenses, shutters, sensitive medium, exposure, and development. 2 copies located in OCLC. (Item #15189)

New York: S.D. Humphrey, 1858. Hardcover. Very Good. Fifth edition. 5" x 7.5", pp xii, 2-214, [5] ads. Original red cloth stamped in gilt. Boards soiled, binding sound, text clean. One of the earliest American works on the daguerreotype, first published in 1853, and here considerably enlarged. (Item #15175)

Glasgow: Richard Griffin and Co., 1841. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 8vo, pp. viii, 96, with lithographic frontispiece showing an image in positive and negative, and 29 illustrations in the text. Bound in later plain paper wrappers and housed in a clamshell box. Some chipping to the edges, staining (probably photographic chemicals) to the title page and Introduction only. Overall about very good. Hunt (1807-1887) was a chemist who played a prominent role in the early decades of photography in Britain. This volume, which incorporated much of his own research as well as a survey of important contributions to the field, is generally regarded as "the first book on photography in English" and was, according to Hannavy, "the most comprehensive account of photography photographic process published to that date." A rare and seminal work. (Item #15032)

New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 7" x 10.5," pp [10], viii, 143. [4] ads, illustrated with 32 wood engravings and ten tipped-in specimen heliograms. Original maroon cloth, lightly bumped at the corner. Initials stamped on front free endpaper, old bookseller's label (W. & L.E. Gurley, Troy, NY) on rear pastedown, else unmarked and sound. Preface: "An abundance of excellent works on photography already exist, but, as far as the author is aware, there is no book in the English language which is adapted to the special use fo the Engineer, the Architect, and the Draughtsman, who may wish to employ heavenly light as a copying clerk....Parts of the following pages have been gathered from periodicals, portions are taken from standard works on photography, chemistry, and physics...[but] a great deal is original with the author. A large number of the formulas given have been practiced by him for many years." Includes very detailed information and formulas for a variety of processes (silver print, blue print, iron salt, chromium salt, etc). (Item #15167)

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 5" x 7.25", 112 pp, indexed, with two folding plates, many additional illustrations in the text. Ex-Massachusetts State Library, with related markings. Else clean and sound. The author was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Signal Corps who had used photography for mapping purposes in the far west and Central America and later trained officers on photographic technique. This manual was prepared "to explain in as simple, nontechnical language as possible such of the operations of photography as will prove of value for military purposes." Chapters cover the basics of light and lenses, development, printing, cameras and exposure, enlarging, "photographic topography," and the preparation of cameras for field work. (Item #15177)

Frankfort-on-Main [sic]: Schleussner Dry Plate Company. Softcover. Good. Undated, c. 1900. 5" x 7.25", 96 pp, with 14 (of 15) plates showing the effects of different photographic techniqqes and processes. Original printed wrappers, lightly edgeworn, occasional marginal annotation. the world's first photographic materials manufacturer. Carl Schleussner was a chemist who conducted pioneering work on the wet-collodion process and made improvements to the dry plate that allowed it to be successfully manufactured industrially to high quality standards. His company began manufacturing photographic supplies in 1860. This work, which was printed in England, offers detailed, well-illustrated instruction and forumlas for the dry plate process (including making lantern slides), and also comments briefly on stereoscopic photography and photo-micrography. Not found in OCLC, one copy in KVK. (Item #15192)

London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1876. Hardcover. Good. First English edition. 6" x 7.25", pp xvi, 326, 14 (ads); errata slip tipped in. Illustrated with woodcuts and engravings. Original dark red cloth, rebacked, with most of original spine laid down. Retains original endpapers, which are printed with additional advertisements. Moderate edgewear. Binding sound, contents clean. Tissandier was a chemist, journalist, and amateur photographer. This work provides a useful survey of the history of photography to date, followed by instruction on creating a studio, preparing plates, printing, enlarging, etc, as well as the practical applications of photography in art, astronomy, microscopy, and other fields. (Item #15166)