BLANQUART-EVRARD - PHOTOGRAPHY - Lot 37

BLANQUART-EVRARD - PHOTOGRAPHY "Photography. Ses origines, ses progrès, ses transformations", Lille, Imprimerie L.Danel, 1869. Book. 1869 edition complete with 14 plates: -1 photograph on salted paper by Maxime Du Camp from 1852, taken from the book "Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie". -1 reproduction of a bas-relief using the Poitevin process -2 photolithographs by Zurcher -2 prints by Musée Goupil. -1 photogravure using the H. Garnier process -2 heliogravures by Edouard 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 Bound in 20th century red half-leather, spine ribbed, dedication preserved "A Monsieur Gripon, membre de la Société Impériale des Sciences et des Arts de Lille. Souvenir affectueux." 30.7 x 24 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 had contacted the various inventors and obtained prints of their old photographs, lithographic stones and copperplates. Emile Gripon (1825-1912), to whom the author dedicates this copy, was a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and professor of physics at the Lille Faculty of Science and the Ecole Centrale de Lille. He is renowned for his studies on acoustics and vibrations. Provenance: acquired in the early 1980s, by descent.