Item #26858 Chimie photographique:. et Davanne Barreswil, Charles Louis, Alphonse.

Chimie photographique: contenant les éléments de chimie expliqués par Des EXEMPLES EMPRUNTÉS A LA PHOTOGRAPHIE; Les procédés de photographie sur GLACE (COLLODION SEC OU HUMIDE ET ALBUMINÉ) sur papiers, SUR PLAQUES; La manière de préparer soi-même, D'ESSAYER ET d'employer touS les réactifs et d'utiliser les résidus, ETC.;

Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, [1858]. Second edition. 8vo., xx, 412 pp., 4 pp. prospectus at rear, charts and tables. Scattered foxing, else very good in contemporary cloth-backed marbled paper over boards. Item #26858

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. Includes for the first time an appendix on the latest advances in heliogravure, photolithography and color reproduction. 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.

Price: $525.00