Estimate: $300 - $500
Offered for sale by Fred Pajerski Of 'Fred Pajerski: Photography Books' - for more information please contact him via email at fredpajerski@gmail.com
Marcus Aurelius Root. The Camera and the Pencil; or, The Heliographic Art, Its Theory and Practice in all Its Various Branches... (Philadelphia & New York: M. A. Root, J. B. Lippincott & Co., & D. Appleton & Co., 1864). xviii, 19-456 p., [4] illus., frontispiece; text illus., index.
Important early treatise illustrated with portraits of prominent figures (Samuel Morse, Henry Clay, etc.). Imprint of stereo camera & palette on covers & back. Wear to exterior, loss at top and bottom of spine, tear in exterior of rear hinge, slight buckling in back board; text block tight, and aged but clean. Cloth. Interior Good.
