Valicourt e edmond de (4 risultati)

Revised second edition. 2 volumes. 12mo., xix, 256 pp., 71 pp.; xiii, 340 pp., illustrations in text and one folding plate which is lacking a small portion. Illustrated original wrappers, chipped at edges. Stamps from the Cromer Collection on each title and vol. 1 cover, edges toned and worn. The spines have been coated to preserve the chipped text. Housed in new clamshell box of linen over boards with spine label affixed; card divider between volumes. An excellent survey of photographic processes to date. The largest portion is devoted to the daguerreotype - Valicourt was a practitioner of the process and here provides full descriptions of apparatus and chemicals, plates (including daguerreotype) and the various paper processes in use: collodion, albumen and gelatin, etc. Also includes photomechanical techniques. Valicourt had previously written a few short pieces which appeared as chapters in texts by Smee, and a text on Blanquart-Evrard's paper process from the mid 1840s; in this title he has borrowed and distilled from the the discoveries of Niépce, Daguerre, Fox Talbot, Herschel, Hunt, Blanquard-Evrard, Niepce de St.-Victor, Fizean, Claudet, et al. To call this volume a " Nouvelle édition" is an exaggeration; it is considerably revised and enlarged from the 1851 editiont, and one of the superior compendiums of known photographic processes to date. Roosens and Salu No. 6542. Bellier de la Chavignerie, Manuel Bibliographie du Photographe Francais, 1863, No. 55, as a first appearance. Considerably enlarged over the first edition of 1845. OCLC locates only seven copies.…

First edition. 16mo., 453 pp., 2 large folding engraved plates. Contemporary quarter calf with morocco label, titled with simple decorations in gilt. Joints slightly rubbed; the fore edge of the first plate is a bit soiled, foxed and worn with no loss. Faint foxing on the title page only. A very good copy. Issued in the series, Manuels- Roret, this is an early manual on galvanography and the daguerreotype. Galvanography is the process of coating plates, often with silver, through the use of electricity. Silver plates made in this fashion were essential in making daguerreotypes. Edmond de Valicourt's manual on the daguerreotype comprises p. 323 - 453 and the 2 folding plates; however, p. 384 - 401 is largely devoted to Talbot's paper process. Bellier de la Chavignerie, Manuel Bibliographie du Photographe Francais, 1863, fails to mention this volume, although it does list later volumes in the series Manuels-Roret. Roosens and Salu No. 4189.…

First edition. 12mo., errata, 308 pp., illustrations in text. Contemporary quarter calf gilt, which is chipped with a worm hole at the base of the spine; text is fine and bright. Near fine. An excellent general manual of contemporary photographic processes. Roosens and Salu No. 6541. Bellier de la Chavignerie, Manuel Bibliographie du Photographe Francais, 1863, No. 128.…

16mo., xvi, 368 pp., 90 pp. publisher's catalogue, illustrations in text, and one large folding engraved plate with 36 figures. Quarter vellum gilt with spine label and marbled paper over boards. The original illustrated wrappers are bound in. An unusually fine and bright copy. An excellent survey of photographic processes to date. The largest portion is devoted to the daguerreotype - Valicourt was a practitioner of the process. Valicourt provides full descriptions of apparatus and chemicals, plates (including daguerreotype) and the various paper processes in use: collodion, albumen and gelatin, etc. Also includes photomechanical techniques. Valicourt had previously written a few short pieces which appeared as chapters in texts by Smee, and a text on Blanquart-Evrard's paper process from the mid 1840s; in this title he has borrowed and distilled from the the discoveries of Niépce, Daguerre, Fox Talbot, Herschel, Hunt, Blanquard-Evrard, Niepce de St.-Victor, Fizean, Claudet, et al. To call this volume a " Nouvelle édition" is an exaggeration; it is the first full manual on photography written by Valicourt, and one of the superior compendiums of known photographic processes to date. Roosens and Salu No. 4235. Bellier de la Chavignerie, Manuel Bibliographie du Photographe Francais, 1863, No. 55, as a first appearance. Nouvelle édition, entièrement refondue, ornée de figures, et mise au courant des perfectionnements les plus récents.…