BLANQUART-EVRARD - PHOTOGRAPHY - Lot 35

BLANQUART-EVRARD - PHOTOGRAPHY "Photography. Ses origines, ses progrès, ses transformations", Lille, Imprimerie L.Danel, 1869. Book. 1869 edition complete with 14 plates: -1 salted paper print by Maxime Du Camp depicting the Hemicycle of the enclosure of the Temples of the Sun and Jupiter at Baalbek, taken from the 1852 work "Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie". -1 reproduction of a bas-relief using the Poitevin process -2 photolithographs by Zurcher -1 photoglyptie by Goupil -1 photogravure using the H. Garnier process -2 heliogravures by Edouard Denis Baldus -1 reproduction of a handwritten scroll -2 relief photogravures by H. Garnier -1 charcoal photograph by Mr. Ernest Edwards -1 photograph by Braun after Raphael's Virgin and Child -1 photoglyptie by Goupil Dedication by the author to Alphonse de Brébisson on the cover. 32.2 x 24.5 cm Alphonse de Brébisson (1798-1872) was one of the founding members of the Société française de photographie. He became interested in the medium as early as 1839, and helped to perfect it through his many experiments. Provenance: acquired in the early 1980s, by descent.