Presentation D Un Specimen De Photographies D Un Passage Artificiel De Venus Obtenu Avec Le

by Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen

$12,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1874-95. First edition, extremely rare offprint, of Janssen’s epoch-making description of his ‘photographic revolver’ and of its first results, “the first ‘film’” Singer, A History of Technology V, p. 739 . “The first practical device for sequential photography, invented to record the transit of Venus in 1874, was later recognized as the precursor of the movie

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