Item #28078 HANDBOOK OF THE PRACTICE AND ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY. H. W. Vogel, Hermann, Wilhelm.

HANDBOOK OF THE PRACTICE AND ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY. ENLARGED, REVISED, AND CORRECTED BY THE AUTHOR, AND ESPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE UNITED STATES

Philadelphia: Benerman & Wilson, 1875. Second edition. 8vo., xvi, [17]-389 pp., illustrated, including 4 small mounted albumen photographs. The title page is soiled; small circular hole on p. 383 - 384 (terminal leaf) with the loss of a few words Re-backed with the original spine laid-down and new endpapers supplied; the cloth binding is stained. A good copy. Item #28078

A general treatise on the practice of photography, incorporating the latest advances and processes.

Hermann Vogel was an outstanding industrial chemist and physicist. His interest in photography started around 1860, and by 1863 he had founded the Berlin Photographische Verein, and in 1864 he was awarded the chair of photochemistry at the academy. His research in dye sensitization of photographic plates made possible the development of orthochromatic, panchromatic and color photography. He was a prolific writer of books and articles on photography.

Roosens and Salu No. 4248.

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