A History Of Photography written as A Practical Guide and an Introduction to Its Latest Developments (Scoville's Photographic Series)
by Harrison, Jerome W
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Scovill Manufacturing Company, 1887. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. hardcover in dark tan cloth elaborately decorated and stamped in black and gilt. Patterned endpapers. 136 pp. plus xxvi-page rear section of illustrated ads. Photo engraving portrait frontispiece of the author and additional illustrations in the text. A tight example, deaccessioned from the Library Company of Philadelphia with their 19th century bookplate front pastedown amd small numbered paper sticker head of spine.Internally bright and clean, spine somewhat darkened and with minor edge wear. Includes cahpters on the hisotory of photography and some of its pioneers, the daguerreotype process, other processes (calotype, collodion, dry-plate collodion, collodion emulsion, silver and bromide gelatine), history of photo printing processes, roller-slides and negative making on paper, history of photography in colors, developers, etc. A very acceptable example of a rather scarde early photography book.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E16200
- Title
- A History Of Photography written as A Practical Guide and an Introduction to Its Latest Developments (Scoville's Photographic Series)
- Author
- Harrison, Jerome W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1887
- Keywords
- photo, photogarphy, pictures, photography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photography;
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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