Chimie photographique: contenant les éléments de chimie expliqués par Des EXEMPLES EMPRUNTÉS A LA PHOTOGRAPHIE; LES PROCÉDÉS DE PHOTOGRAPHIE SUR GLACE (COLLODION HUMIDE, SEC OU ALBUMINÉ), SUR PAPIERS, SUR PLAQUES; LA MANIÈRE DE PRÉPARER SOI-MÈME, D'ESSAYER, D'EMPLOYER TOUS LES RÉACTIFS ET D'UTILISER LES RÉSIDUES, ETC.
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1864. Fourth edition. 8vo., xx, 580 pp.,engraved figures in text. Contemporary quarter morocco and marbled paper over boards. Blank upper corner of the title page lacking; occasional foxing, else very good. Item #26339
Charles Louis Barreswil, 1817 - 1870, studied chemistry under Jules Pelouze, and later directed his laboratory, working with Claude Bernard. After 1849, his interests moved from physiological chemistry to those applied to industry and photography. Alphonse Davanne (1824 - 1912) was trained as a chemist, and by 1852, his attention was exclusively devoted to photographic chemistry. In 1854, he was a founding member of the Société Française de Photographie. In 1852, Barreswil, with Lerebours and Lemercier, successfully produced halftone photolithographs in a portfolio of architectural views, the first portfolio to use the halftone lithographic process.
A revised and expanded edition of the 1854 first edition. The definitive volume to date on photographic chemistry, photographic papers, plates, the collodion and albumen processes, as well as photomechanical processes, including the halftone lithographic method. This proved to be a popular encyclopedia of photographic chemistry and went through four editions, with the last in 1864.
Roosens and Salu No. 1835. Bellier de la Chavignerie, Manuel Bibliographie du Photographe Francais, 1863, No. 73. (for first and second editions.).
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