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Historique et Description des procédés du Daguerréotype et du Diorama
Author: Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (French, 1787–1851)
Author: Nicéphore Niépce (French, 1765–1833)
Author: François Arago (French, 1786–1853)
Publisher: Alphonse Giroux (French, active 1811–1857)
Author: Nicéphore Niépce (French, 1765–1833)
Author: François Arago (French, 1786–1853)
Publisher: Alphonse Giroux (French, active 1811–1857)
1839
Place of Publication: Paris, France
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book with six lithographs
Dimensions
Overall: 21.5 x 13.8 x 1.2 cm (8 7/16 x 5 7/16 x 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession NumberKBR1172
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Photography
ClassificationsPhotographs – Illustrated books
Paris: Alphonse Giroux et Cie, 1839
Catalogue Raisonné
Newhall, in Harvard Library Bulletin, VII (1953), p. 211, first edition, first issue
Description(Paris: Alphonse Giroux et Cie, 1839) Octavo; [2 ff.] 79 pp., plus six plates; modern blue buckram (original publisher's printed tan wrappers bound in).
ProvenanceMax Harrwitz, Buchhandlung & Antiquariat, Berlin (label on back of original wrapper); Sylvester Rosa Koehler, Boston (1837-1900, first MFA print curator), by whom given to MFA, October 20, 1898.