GERNSHEIM, HELMUT.

The History of Photography From the Earliest Use of the Camera Obscura in the Eleventh Century up to 1914. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs, drawings, prints, and diagrams. Thick 4to, gilt-lettered blue cloth, worn, corners bumped; bookplate on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION. London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1955 WITH- -"Gernsheim, Helmut and Alison. L.J.M Daguerre: The History of the Diorama and the Daguerreotype. Illustrated with reproductions of daguerreotypes and early photographs by Daguerre, Niepce, de Prangey, and many others. 4to, pictorial wrappers. New York, (1968).".