Wien: Wilhelm Braumüller, 1859-1862. Unique edition. Hardcover. Folio. 88pp (text), 72 plates (Volume I), 69pp (text), 56 plates (Volume II). Original half morocco over cloth with gold lettering and borders on spines. Marbled paper edges. Rare edition of an exceptional work compiling 128 mounted salt prints and albumen photographs, depicting..... More

NP: NP, ND (ca 1880). Original photograph(s). Hardcover. Oblong folio (16 x 20 1/2"). [83] leaves. 19th-century quarter blind-stamped cloth over floral decorative wooden panels, with light green lettering to front cover. Striking 19th-century photo-album containing 90 albumen prints (including 81 mammoth plates) by the celebrated Fratelli Alinari.* The photographs..... More

NP: NP, ND (ca 1898). Original photograph(s). Hardcover. Oblong octavo (5 1/2 x 7 1/4"). Contemporary full decorative cloth.Scarce accordion-fold photo-album containg 24 striking albumen prints depicting daily scenes in Seoul before the Japanese military occupation and annexation of 1905. The photographs, 12 on each side of the album, depict..... More

Berlin-Schöneberg: Meisenbach Riffarth & Co., 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto (9 1/2 x 13 1/2"). [2] leaves (Title and Dedication); [1] leaf (Photogravure portrait of German field marshal Alfred Ludwig Heinrich Karl Graf von Waldersee, after a photograph by J. C. Schaarwächter); 70pp (Photogravures); 1 folding map of Beijing..... More

Berlin: Photographische Gesellschaft. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong Folio (33 x 41"). (1) 15 plates (31 x 38.5"). Original red cloth portfolio with intricate decorative ruling and design in gilt and black on front cover, blind-stamped on back. Decorative endpapers and flaps. Wilhelm Amberg (1822–1899) is known as a genre painter..... More

Deuben: Gemeinderat zu Deuben, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong Quarto. (1) 21 plates. Original black leather with debossed ruling and gilt-stamped lettering and wave molding on cover. Gilt edges and decorative gilt-stamped endpapers. Printed dedication page, with decorative ruling, reads: "In thankful recognition of the great emergency relief efforts on..... More

[Paris]: ND Phot, ND (ca 1890). Original photograph(s). Hardcover. Oblong folio (12 x 16"). Contemporary 3/4 decorative calf over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering to front cover. Decorative endpapers.Collection of twelve lively scenic views of Bordeaux, the famous French port city on the Garonne River, and hub of..... More

Mainz: Verlag von Victor V. Zabern, n/d. J. G. Prestel. Hardcover. 3 volumes. Oblong 4to. Brick cloth binding with decorative black and gold border. Also with scored edges. All edge gilt. All volumes with gold side clasp; broken on two volumes. Each volume containing 50 photographic plates each (150 total)..... More

Paris: L. Baschet, 1897-1898. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated. [292]pp. Contemporary 3/4 olive cloth over marbled paper covered boards, with gilt-lettered title laid on spine. Original photo-illustrated wrappers bound in. Striking collection of hundreds of duo-tone and b/w photographs depicting scenes of the Gay Paris during the time of..... More

ca. 1870. Symmetrical basket shape of blue sheets of heavy paper with two concentric 'rings' of eight circular (1 1/2") lithographic images each (in sepia-tone) showing views of Washington D.C. Images within golden decorative borders. Central panel with chromolithographed bouquet of flowers. Photographs show the President's residence, State War &..... More