Item #54399 LA PHOTOGRAPHIE EN AMÉRIQUE:. A. Liébert, Alphonse.

LA PHOTOGRAPHIE EN AMÉRIQUE: TRAITÉ COMPLET DE PHOTOGRAPHIE PRATIQUE CONTENANT LES DÉCOUVERTES LES PLUS RÉCENTS

Paris: A. Liébert, 1884. Fourth edition. 8vo., x, 679, 24 pp., photogravure frontispiece, 17 woodburytype and carbon photographs mounted on 7 leaves, and one mounted photo-lithograph; other illustrations in text. Publisher's original printed wrappers; The text block is split at p. 544, but holding by the stitches, resulting in the spine cover lacking several blank pieces; the text is intact. Uncommon in the original wrappers. A very good copy. Item #54399

Alphonse Justin Liébert (1827 - 1913) a French naval officer, resigned his commission and opened a photographic studio in San Francisco, 1851. By 1864, he was back in Paris, where he introduced the melainotype (tintype) and was an early advocate of the carbon process.

Largely a survey of American approaches to photography, this handbook includes studio design, lighting, apparatus, darkroom work and enlarging, as well as photo-sculpture and photomechanical processes. The third edition was greatly revised and expanded from previous editions, and this, the fourth edition, adds an additional carbon plate and a 24-page appendix on the gelatin silver bromide process.

Price: $850.00

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