This page will help you translate some of the relevant terms between English, French, German, Italian Latin and Spanish. Elsevier’s Dictionary of the Printing and Allied Industries has been published in two editions of which I have the 1967 which I find of great assistance.
The American Historical Print Collectors Society Dictionary of Printmaking Terms is also useful. Australian Slang sometimes comes into its own.
I’m grateful to Joachim of the excellent Bibliothekspostkarten website for help with some of the German terms in this page.
art nouveau
I: Stile Liberty G: Jugendstil
Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts, known in different languages by different names: Jugendstil in German, Stile Liberty in Italian, Modernisme català in Catalan, etc. In English it is also known as the Modern Style. The style was most popular between 1890 and 1910. It was a reaction against the academic art, eclecticism and historicism of 19th century architecture and decoration. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and flowers. Other characteristics of Art Nouveau were a sense of dynamism and movement, often given by asymmetry or whiplash lines, and the use of modern materials, particularly iron, glass, ceramics and later concrete, to create unusual forms and larger open spaces.
Italian Liberty style, like other versions of Art Nouveau, had the ambition of turning ordinary objects, such as chairs and windows, into works of art. Unlike the French and Belgian Art Nouveau, based primarily on nature, Liberty style was more strongly influenced by the Baroque style, with very lavish ornament and color, both on the interior and exterior.
art publisher
G: Kunstverlag
chromolithography
a colour printing process by lithography
chromotype
G: Farbdruck, Mehrfarbendruck
cliché (F)
photograph, negative
collodion
collodian process is an early photographic process for the production of grayscale images. The collodion process – mostly synonymized with the term “wet-plate process”, requires the photographic material to be coated, sensitized, exposed, and developed within the span of about fifteen minutes, necessitating a portable darkroom for use in the field. Collodion is normally used in its wet form, but it can also be used in its dry form, at the cost of greatly increased exposure time. The increased exposure time made the dry form unsuitable for the usual portraiture work of most professional photographers of the 19th century. The use of the dry form was mostly confined to landscape photography and other special applications where exposure times sometimes longer than a half hour were tolerable.
Source: wikipedia collodion process
collotype
G: Lichtdruck F: heliotypie, phototypie US: phototype S:Fototipia
A process for making high-quality prints from a sheet of light-sensitive gelatin exposed photographically to the image without using a screen.
A photo-mechanical process for printing by exposing a plate (copper, stone, or glass) covered in gelatin film under a negative, hardening it with chrome alum, and printing directly from it.
Del.
Delin.
Abbreviations for Delineavit, a Latin term literally meaning “He drew it.” It often appears on prints beneath the bottom picture line after the artist’s name. After the artist’s name on an engraving, it indicates that the print was taken from a drawing and not from an oil painting. On a lithograph, it can indicate “drawn on stone by” the lithographer or artist who created the original picture.
ferrotype
G: Ferrotypie
A tintype, also known as a melanotype or ferrotype, is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal, colloquially called ‘tin’ (though not actually tin-coated), coated with a dark lacquer or enamel and used as the support for the photographic emulsion. It was introduced in 1853 by Adolphe Alexandre Martin in Paris. It competed with both the ambrotype process and the older and established daguerreotype, finding particular adoption in North America. Tintypes enjoyed their widest use during the 1860s and 1870s, but lesser use of the medium persisted into 1930s. It has been described as the first “truly democratic” medium for mass portraiture.
Tintypes were particularly used for portraits. They were at first usually made in a formal photographic studio, like daguerreotypes and other early types of photographs. At the time though the process like the professional were called specifically ferrotype and ferrotypist respectively (not photograph|er). Later on tintypes were most commonly made by ferrotypists working in booths, tents, or the open air at fairs and carnivals, as well as by itinerant sidewalk photographers (with carts or wagons). Because the lacquered iron support was resilient and later did not need drying, a tintype could be developed and fixed and handed to the customer only a few minutes after the picture had been taken.
Source: wikipedia Tintype
GmbH
Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (also GesmbH in Austria), meaning “company with limited liability”, is a type of legal entity very common in Germany, Austria, Switzerland (where it is equivalent to a société à responsabilité limitée), and Liechtenstein. It is an entity broadly equivalent to the private limited company in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries, and the limited liability company (LLC) in the United States. The name of the GmbH form emphasizes the fact that the owners (Gesellschafter, also known as members) of the entity are not personally liable or credible for the company’s debts. GmbHs are considered legal persons under German, Swiss, and Austrian law. Other variations include mbH (used when the term Gesellschaft is part of the company name itself), and gGmbH (gemeinnützige GmbH) for non-profit companies.
The GmbH has become the most common corporation form in Germany because the AG (Aktiengesellschaft), the other major company form corresponding to a stock corporation, was much more complicated to form and operate until recently. Source: wikipedia
linotype
I: linotipie lithograph G: Lithografie
lithography
a planographic method of printing that uses the chemical repulsion between water and grease to separate the printing and non-printing areas.
logo
G: signet
melanotype
see ferrotype above
nachfolger
German for successor. In the example Verlag von J. & H. Grambusch, (P. Reiss Nachfolger,) Buchhdlg, Worms, the Grambusches are the successors to Mr Reiss as booksellers in Worms
photographer
G: Fotograf,
photogravure
G: Heliogravüre
The abbreviations héliog. or héliogr., found on old reproductions, may stand for the French word héliogravure, and can then refer to any form of photogravure
phototype
S:Fototipia
planographic
S: planográfico G: Flachdruck
Planographic printing means printing from a flat surface, as opposed to a raised surface (as with relief printing) or incised surface (as with intaglio printing). Lithography and offset lithography are such processes that rely on the property that water will not mix with oil.
platinotypes
Also called platinum prints, platinotypes are photographic prints made by a monochrome printing process involving platinum.
postcard
Japanese: 
(literally mail)
ポストカード (Posutokādo) seems to be the modern term
printer
I: tipografo G: Drucker
publisher’s mark
G: Signet
publishing house
G: Verlagsanstalt, Verlag
I: Stabilimento; Stab (literally establishment)
Sc.
Sculp.
Abbreviations for Sculpsit, a Latin term literally meaning “He engraved it.” It often appears on early prints following the names beneath the bottom picture line and identifies the engraver of the print.
tintype
see ferrotype above
trade mark
G: Schutzmarke, Marke
typography
I: tipografie G: Typografie
Universal Postal Union
Japanese:
Side 2 Dormitory Gong read as much as possible
undivided-back postcards 