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Auction House:
Auction Location:
Sydney
Date:
2-Aug-2014
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Description:
Books on Early Photography (2). Meteyard, Eliza. a Group of Englishmen (1795 to 1815). Being records of the younger Wedgwoods and their friends. Embracing the history of the Discovery of Photography and a Facsimile of the first photograph. London, Longmans Green, 1871. First edition. Engraved facsimile frontis., one wood-engraved plate, xxi.416pp., marbled endpapers and edges, blank endpapers slightly spotted, 8vo., contemporary 1/2 calf and cloth boards, spine gilt with raised bands and contrasting title label, spine darkened and a little rubbed and now stabilised with conservation leather dressing. Back cover detached. Gilt crest of a parliamentary library at spine base and on front board. No other markings external or internal; Bouasse, H. Vision et Reproduction des Formes et des Couleurs. Vision mono et binoculaire, Illusions d'Optique, Photometrie,Theorie des Couleurs. Photographie. Procedes d'Impression.Paris, Librairie Delagrave, (1917). First edition.7 plates, one in colour, 267 illustrations and diagrams in text, xxv,561pp., large 8vo., contemporary [publisher's?] quarter morocco and marble paper boards, spine a little faded. An excellent copy. Bibliotheque Scientifique de l'Ingenieur et du Physicien'.
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Category:
Unclassified