Item #15175 American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype: Giving the Most Approved and Convenient Methods for Preparing the Chemicals, and the Combinations Used in the Art. Containing the Daguerreotype, Electrotype, and Various Other Processes Employed in Taking Heliographic Impressions. S. D. Humphrey.

Humphrey, S.D.

American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype: Giving the Most Approved and Convenient Methods for Preparing the Chemicals, and the Combinations Used in the Art. Containing the Daguerreotype, Electrotype, and Various Other Processes Employed in Taking Heliographic Impressions

New York: S.D. Humphrey, 1858.

Hardcover. Very Good. Fifth edition. 5" x 7.5", pp xii, 2-214, [5] ads. Original red cloth stamped in gilt. Boards soiled, binding sound, text clean. One of the earliest American works on the daguerreotype, first published in 1853, and here considerably enlarged.