Lot Essay
Several editions of Chamouin's Vues de Paris were published during the 1840s and 1850s. The contents of this volume correspond with that listed in Buerger.
19TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHIC LITERATURE AND ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS
Vues de Paris prises au Daguerréotype, Paris: Chamouin, circa 1850; Paris Incendié, Paris: M. A. Jarry, [?1872]
Details
VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS
Vues de Paris prises au Daguerréotype, Paris: Chamouin, circa 1850; Paris Incendié, Paris: M. A. Jarry, [?1872]
The first with twenty-eight engravings after daguerreotypes, each approx. 6¼ x 9¼ in., tissue guards, title page, leather-backed boards titled in gilt on front cover, oblong 4to.; the second with eighteen albumen prints, each approx. 4 x 6 in., printed titles on mounts, half-title, title page, descriptive text, original cloth, titled and dated in gilt on front cover, g.e., oblong 8vo. (2)
Vues de Paris prises au Daguerréotype, Paris: Chamouin, circa 1850; Paris Incendié, Paris: M. A. Jarry, [?1872]
The first with twenty-eight engravings after daguerreotypes, each approx. 6¼ x 9¼ in., tissue guards, title page, leather-backed boards titled in gilt on front cover, oblong 4to.; the second with eighteen albumen prints, each approx. 4 x 6 in., printed titles on mounts, half-title, title page, descriptive text, original cloth, titled and dated in gilt on front cover, g.e., oblong 8vo. (2)
Literature
Buerger, French Daguerreotypes, p. 243, no. 72; Paris-Musées (Ed.), Paris et le daguerréotype, pp. 260-61 (illus.)