BLANQUART-EVRARD - PHOTOGRAPHY - Lot 36

BLANQUART-EVRARD - PHOTOGRAPHY "Photography. Ses origines, ses progrès, ses transformations", Lille, Imprimerie L.Danel, 1869. Book. 1869 edition complete with 20 plates: -1 photograph from "Album Photographique de l'Artiste et de l'Amateur" of 1851 -3 prints on salted paper by Maxime Du Camp from 1852, taken from the book "Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie" (Great Column of Luxor, Propylaea of the Temple of Khonsu at Thebes and Entrance to the First Cataract) -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 -2 charcoal photographs by Mr. Ernest Edwards (portrait of girl and man) -1 photograph by Braun after a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci -1 charcoal photograph mixed with inert dyes by Braun (men in the Swiss Alps) -2 photoglypics by Goupil Bound in 20th century black half-leather, spine ribbed, cover preserved with dedication "Souvenir affectueux" by the author. 31.8 x 24.4 cm In this major work on photography, the author defends Nicéphore Nièpce against Daguerre's "excessive glory" 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. The edition presented here includes 6 additional plates, including 2 salted papers by Du Camp.