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EXPOSITION ET HISTOIRE DES PRINCIPALES DÉCOUVERTES SCIENTIFIQUES MODERNES. Tome Premier. Photographie. Télégraphie aétienne et électrique. Galvanoplastie et Dorure chimique. Poudres de guerre et Poudre-coton.
Paris: Victor Masson / Langlois et Leclercq, 1853. Second edition, revised and enlarged. 12mo., xi, 486 pp., illustrations in text. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled paper over boards; previous owner's neat ex-libris affixed to the front pastedown. Very good. Item #53207
Contains a lengthy (120 pp.) chapter on the discovery of the medium and its current processes.
Price: $100.00
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