595 DAGUERRE, LOUIS JACQUES (1787-1851)
Excursions Daguerriennes; Vue & Monuments les plus remarquables du Globe
oblong folio, Paris (Lerebours) 1841 [270 x 365mm]
with twenty etched views after photographs, French texts by various people, origi-
nal binding in embossed linen, title in gilt on upper cover, decorated spine.
The earliest attempt to utilise photography, if indirectly, to illustrate a book, fur-
ther plates were issued later.
€ 3,000 - 5,000