Nouveau manuel complet de galvanoplastie, ou Éléments d'électro-métallurgie [...] Suivi d'un traité de daguerréotypie [...].

12mo: [4]-453 pp.; 2 pl., 79 pp. (some browning and spotting).

Contemp. quarter black shagreen, gilt-orn. spine with 4 raised bands (sl. rubbed).

Rare first edition of this very early manual of photography. Ill. with two fold. plates showing a daguerreotype camera by Chevalier and lenses and other accessories by Gaudin, Lerebours, and Buron. Galvanography is the art or process of depositing metals, often silver, by means of electricity. Silver plates made with this kind of process were essential in making daguerreotypes. Issued in the series Manuels-Roret.
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Joined: Almanach de la chimie pour 1859. Rouen, Mégard et Cie, (1859). 12mo: 144 pp. Contemp. quarter brown shagreen, flat spine (def. on tail). Bound with: 1. Delion, J.-B. - Almanach-manuel du magicien des salons contenant l'explication de tous les nouveaux tours de magie blanche. Paris, Delarue, (1859). 192 pp. Ref. BnF. - 2. Latreille, É. de - Nouveau manuel simplifié de photographie sur plaque, verre et papier, albumine et collodion suivi d'un petit traité sur les instruments d'optique appliqués à la photographie [...]. Paris, Roret, 1856. 166 pp. (spotting). Ref. BnF. - 3. Id. - Almanach-manuel du photographe pour 1857. Paris, Mallet-Bachelier, (1857). 72 pp.; 3 pl. Ref. BnF. (2 vol.)