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A Manual of Photographic Chemistry, including the Practice of the Collodion Process.
by Hardwick, T. Frederick [Hardwich]
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: S. D. Humphrey, 1855. First American edition of this important early manual of photography, with sections on preparing & using salts of silver, development of the image by use of reducing agents, fixing the image, nature & properties of light, chemistry & photographic properties of the collodio-iodide of silver, positive & negative collodion photographs, theory of positive printing, proposed substitution of bromine for iodine, chemistry of the Daguerreotype process, practical details of the collodion process, outline of general chemistry. The American edition misspells London chemistry professor Hardwich's name. Small hardcover, as pictured. General wear, corners frayed, stain & some damage to front cover, minor waterstains; bookplate of New York engineer D. Judson Jenne (his son (?) of the same name owned a creamery in Wisconsin around 1900); ink name of University of Wisconsin chemistry professor Aaron Ihde, small ink number of title page, minor tanning & a few smudges to pages. Text clean; xii, 284 pages; vocabulary of photographic chemicals, appendix, index, two-page ad for Humphrey's Journal of the Daguerreotype and Photographic Arts, a few figures. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Small Octavo.
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- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- w0113
- Title
- A Manual of Photographic Chemistry, including the Practice of the Collodion Process.
- Author
- Hardwick, T. Frederick [Hardwich]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- S. D. Humphrey
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1855
- Size
- Small Octavo
- Keywords
- Photography, Chemistry, Photochemistry, Silver Nitrate, Developing
- Bookseller catalogs
- Chemistry; Photography;
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