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Historique et description des procédés du daguerréotype et du diorama...et augmentés de notes et d'observations par MM. Lerebours et Susse frères.

Author: Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (French, 1787–1851)
Author: Nicéphore Niépce (French, 1765–1833)
Author: François Arago (French, 1786–1853)
Publisher: Noël-Marie-Paymal Lerebours (French, 1807–1873)
Publisher: Susse frères (French, 19th century)
1839
Place of Publication: Paris, France

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with six lithographs
Dimensions Overall: 21.5 x 14.4 x 1.3 cm (8 7/16 x 5 11/16 x 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession NumberKBR1173
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Photography
ClassificationsPhotographsIllustrated books
Paris: Lerebours; Susse frères, 1839

Catalogue Raisonné Newhall, Harvard Library Bulletin, p. 213, sixth issue; Boni, Photographic Literature
Description(Paris: Lerebours; Susse frères, 1839) Octavo; [2 ll.] 86 pp. [1 l.] 4, 4 pp. [1 l.], plus 6 plates [lacking portrait]; modern blue buckram, original publisher's tan printed wrappers bound in.

Illustrations of photographic apparatus.
ProvenanceSylvester Rosa Koehler, Boston (1837-1900, first print curator of MFA), by whom given to MFA, October 20, 1898.