Author: MONCKHOVEN, D. van.- Photography.-
Title: Traité général de photographie suivi dún chapitre special sur le Gélatino-Bromure DÁrgent. Avec planches et figures... Septième édition.
Description: Paris, Masson Editeur, 1880. W. 183 woodenghr. textills. In a very nice recent half green mor. over green paper brds. Spine gilt, & age darkened / discol. to a brown. (IV, 431, I (blank) pp.). (First and last few lvs., some soiling.). Very good copy. 7th edition. Eder, History of photography, pp. 427 -30 a.o.pl.: 'Dr. Désiré Charles Emanuel van Monckhoven (1834 - 1882) was one of the most versatile and zealous representatives of scientific and applied photography in the latter half of the last century. ... He studied chemistry ... and devoted himself early in life to photographic studies. In his eighteenth year he published his "Traité général de photographie", ...His other well-known publication was "Traité populaire de photographie sur collodion" (1862). Of importance were his introduction of the dialytic enlarger and an improvement of Woodward's solar camera for enlarging, in 1864... [1879 onwards] he carried out his famous experiments in the ripening of gelatine silver bromide ...': Comp. Gernsheim, Incunabula of photographic lit., item 883 (Engl translation by Thornthwaite, 1863): Gernsheim, The story of photography, p. 313 and 331: 'The evolution of dry plates'. : The Belgian chemist Dr. D. van Monckhoven suggested major improvements which led to the perfection of the dry collodion plate process of photography. His general/popular treatise of photography, here offered in a 7th edition, discusses a large number of processes and techniques, a.o. albumen prints, glass negatives, stereoscopic cliches, heliogravure, wet collodion process, the heliochromatic process by Becquerel and Nièpce, the effect of light on various photogenic substances.

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