[PHOTOGRAPHIE] Boleslas MATUSZEWSKI - La photographie animée, ce qu'elle est, ce qu'elle doit être. Imprimerie Noizette, Paris, 1898 - Extremely rare first edition of this publication by a Polish photographer who came to Paris in the 1880s. This text, along with his Une nouvelle source de l'histoire, création d'un dépôt de cinématographie historique, constitute a legacy of great interest for understanding and analyzing what the cinematograph might have meant for intellectual circles at the end of the 19th century. Fine copy in modern full cloth binding with leather title-piece on spine, very good condition. Fresh interior, current paper a little yellowed, no known large paper edition. The original colored covers have been preserved. Small in-8, 88pp.

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