Item #25943 RÉPERTOIRE GÉNÉRAL DE PHOTOGRAPHIE PRATIQUE ET THÉORIQUE:. D. Van Monckhoven, Désiré Carolus Emanuel.
RÉPERTOIRE GÉNÉRAL DE PHOTOGRAPHIE PRATIQUE ET THÉORIQUE:
RÉPERTOIRE GÉNÉRAL DE PHOTOGRAPHIE PRATIQUE ET THÉORIQUE:

RÉPERTOIRE GÉNÉRAL DE PHOTOGRAPHIE PRATIQUE ET THÉORIQUE: CONTENANT LES PROCÉDÉS SUR PLAQUE, SUR PAPIER, SUR COLLODION SEC ET HUMIDE, SUR ALBUMINE, ETC.

Paris: A. Gaudin, 1859. Third edition. 8vo., 600 pp., 128 illustrations on 10 folding pages, including 1 chromolithograph, 5 photolithographs. Quarter calf and marbled paper over boards; rubbing to the tips and gilt titling on the spine; the crown is slightly chipped and the joints are rubbeb. The top blank corner of the title page is clipped and bears a bookseller's stamp. There are contemporary marginal notes in the table of contents and a few other leaves; the text is bright and near fine. Item #25943

Désiré Charles Emanuel van Monckhoven (1834-1882) was a Belgian chemist and photographer; he invented an enlarger, a dry collodion process, and made improvements to the carbon print process. He was a major contributor to the literature of photography.

This is the third, and greatly expanded and revised edition of TRAITÉ GÉNÉRAL DE PHOTOGRAPHIE...1856. It is a general treatise on the leading process since the discovery of photography, and thorough examination, with formulae, of all aspects of the collodion process. A chapter covers the photogravure processes of Fizeau, Niépce de St. Victor, Talbot, and Poitevin. The plates include examples of heliogravures, chromolithographs, and illustrations of photographic and photomechanical apparatus, totaling 128 figures.

Roosens and Salu No. 4239.

Price: $500.00