Lot 33
M.A. ROOT Camera and the Pencil 1st ed 1864

Estimate: $300 - $500

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Marcus Aurelius ROOT The Camera and the Pencil; or, The Heliographic Art, Its Theory and Practice in all Its Various Branches...

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.