Paul M Hertzmann & Magolis & Moss, San Francisco / Santa Fe, n.d. soft bound. First Edition.
63pp+ supplement: A joint catalogue by two dealers presenting an extraordinary selection of early photography in books of the 1849-1919 period: among them a photo presentation of Lydia E Pinkham's laboratory (the famous female nostrum, "A Baby in Everey Bottle"); the first American edition with photographs (portraits of worthies); a photo-illustrated bible of 1850; an album of French hunting dogs, early travel volumes on India, China (first railroad), Ithaca New York (1869), Mont St Michel (1866), Yosemite (1871), Schliemann at Troy (1874), Glasgow; in 1878; Rome a woodburytype portrait of Corot (1875), Edison's eletric railroad project; and lots of steam locomotives. Fine.

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