The Camera and the Pencil, or the Heliographic Art

by Marcus Aurelius Root, Beaumont Newhall, introd

$75 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition

Pawlet: Helios, 1971. Reprint. 1971 reprint of the 1864 first edition. Hb in maroon buckram, stamped in gold on front and spine; 1 - 10 , i -xviii 19-456pp. With reproductions of the original frontispiece portrait and in-text diagrams. Clean and straight, with one or two bumps to edges, else Near Fine. Root managed and worked in daguerreotype studios in Philadelphia, Mobile, New

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