La photographie en Amérique : traité complet de photographie pratique, contenant les découvertes les plus récentes. Quatrième édition, augmentée d'un appendice sur le Gélatino-Bromure

1884. LIEBERT, A. La Photographie en Amérique: traité complet de Photographie pratique, contenant les Découvertes les plus récentes. Quatrième édition, augmentée d'un Appendice sur le Gélatino-Bromure. x, [2], 656, vi, 24, [657]-679, [1], pp. Illustrated with a photogravure portrait of the author as frontispiece, 8 full page illustrations including four full page card inserts, each containing three mounted carbon photographs illustrating various lighting options demonstrated on the verso with illustrations, full page card insert containing two mounted woodburytypes illustrating before and after retouching, two full page cards containing carbon photographs, and finally a mounted lithograph, plus numerous in-text diagrams and illustrations. 8vo, bound in publisher's polychrome red cloth with an illustration of the sun and a camera. Paris: B. Tignol, 1884. Fourth edition of this popular French guide to the latest photographic techniques in the United States toward the end of the nineteenth century. This copy preserved in its publisher's decorated binding, uncommon thus. Some minor foxing and wear, with the photographs in good shape. Overall very good.