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332 - 24 reference books on the pioneers of English photography. Various locations, ed. & dates. Illustrated publications devoted to the greatest English photographers, such as W. Henry Fox Talbot, William England, Roger Fenton, David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson, P.H. Emerson, Paul Martin, O.G. Rejlander, J. Muirwood, G. Washington Wilson, Frank M. Sutcliffe, and Francis Frith. Includes the first edition of “The Home Life of Sir David Brewster” by his daughter, Mrs. Gordon. Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas, 1869, 8vo. 440 pp., mounted albumen photographic portrait frontispiece (loose cover). An intimate portrait of the British scientist and inventor David Brewster (1781–1868), who invented the “lenticular stereoscope,” which became the first portable 3D-viewing device. Among other things, he also invented the stereoscopic camera.

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€100 - 130

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30%

24 reference books on the pioneers of English photography. Various locations, ed. & dates. Illustrated publications devoted to the greatest English photographers, such as W. Henry Fox Talbot, William England, Roger Fenton, David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson, P.H. Emerson, Paul Martin, O.G. Rejlander, J. Muirwood, G. Washington Wilson, Frank M. Sutcliffe, and Francis Frith. Includes the first edition of “The Home Life of Sir David Brewster” by his daughter, Mrs. Gordon. Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas, 1869, 8vo. 440 pp., mounted albumen photographic portrait frontispiece (loose cover). An intimate portrait of the British scientist and inventor David Brewster (1781–1868), who invented the “lenticular stereoscope,” which became the first portable 3D-viewing device. Among other things, he also invented the stereoscopic camera.

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Prints & drawings, photographs, comics
Wednesday, December 2
01:00 PM
rue aux Laines, 19/2
1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

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