Moitessier, Albert

La photographie appliquée aux recherches micrographiques...avec 41 figures gravées d'après des photographies et trois planches photographiques

Paris: J.-B. Baillére et fils, 1866. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 333, [3]; 3 mounted albumen photographs bound in at the back, 41 figures in the text; some light spotting to the prelims and terminals, else near fine throughout in original gray printed wrappers. The author (1833-1889) was a professor of medicine at Montpellier and a member of the Academy of Sciences and Letters in the same city. A very early work on the subject of photomicroscopy, apparently the first French work on the technology of the process. Item #51793

Price: $950.00