Lot n° 270
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BLANQUART-EVRARD - LA PHOTOGRAPHIE Blanquart-Evrard, "La Pho - Lot 270
BLANQUART-EVRARD - LA PHOTOGRAPHIE Blanquart-Evrard, "La Photographie. Ses origines, ses progrès, ses transformations", Imprimerie L. Danel, Lille, 1869. Book. In-4°, period binding in half-percaline including 13 plates (/14):
-1 photograph by Maxime Du Camp from 1852, taken from the book "Égypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie" (Egypt, Nubia, Palestine and Syria)
-1 reproduction of a bas-relief using the Poitevin process
-2 photolithographs by Zurcher
-1 print from Musée Goupil. The second is missing.
-1 photogravure using the H. Garnier process
-2 heliogravures by Édouard Denis Baldus
-1 reproduction of a handwritten parchment
-2 relief photogravures by H. Garnier
-1 charcoal photograph by Mr. Ernest Edwards
-1 print by Adolphe Braun Provenance: collection of painter Édouard Detaille (1848-1912); by descent.
In this major work on photography, the author defends Nicéphore Nièpce against the "excessive glory" of Daguerre and develops the advances of photolithography. For the illustrations, Blanquart-Evrard contacted the various inventors and obtained prints of their old photographs, lithographic stones and copperplates.
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