Author: MONCKHOVEN, D. van.- Photography.-
Title: Traité d'Optique Photographique comprenant la description des objectifs et appareils dágrandisement.. Avec figures dans le texte et planches.
Description: Paris, Victor Masson et fils, Editeurs, Place de l'école de médecine, 1866. W. 5 fold. pls. at the end & 83 woodengr. textills. In a very nice recent half green mor. over green marbled brds. Spine gilt, in compartments and w. 2 green titleshoelds, giltlettered. The original pr. wrs. preserved and bound in. (271, I (blank) pp.). ( Very good copy.). 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, 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. This publication focuses on objectives and lenses and apparatus for enlargement.

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