Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) (1820-1910)

Edition originale. Huit volumes, regroupant 200 photographies reproduites en phototypie, montées sur carton fort. Reliures en demi-maroquin rouge. Première edition.



Eight volumes with two hundred collotypes mounted on board, first edition.

Vol.I, 25 plates in perfect condition (Victor Hugo, Sarcey, Carpeaux, Bonassieux, Rossini, Adam, Robinet, Glaize, Hamon, Duran, Copée, Michelet, Blanchard, Marioton, Guillemet, Sarah-Bernhard, Belot, Lepic) Vol. II, 25 plates in perfect condition (Duc d'Aumale, Lambert, Carrier-Belleuse, David, Courbet, Detaille, Corot, de Marcère, Nélaton , About, de Chavanne, Droz, Lobrichos, Bartholdi) Vol. III, 25 plates in perfect condition. Some foxing in the pages of text. (Thiers, Baudry, Dumas père, Poré, de Goncourt, de Beaumont, de Lesseps, Taylor, Duez, Barrière, Lanson, de Cassagnac, Fleury, Beyle) Vol. IV, 25 plates in perfect condition, some foxing in the pages of the text (Lavigerie, Bouguereau, Simon, Chaplain, Ribot, Baudelaire, Ranvier, Renan, Dumaresq, Feuillet, Tassaert, Thomas, Lecoq, Voillemat, Dumas fils, Thirion, Rocheton, de Neuville) Vol. V, 24 plates in perfect condition, two of which are loose in the album (Mac Mahon, Levy, Karon, Loti, Bertrand, Augier, de Nittis, Labione, Gérôme, Champfleury, Levy, Sand, Couturier, Regouvé) Vol. VI, 24 plates in perfect condition, somme foxing on the pages of text (Gambetta, Jules Bals, Peraire, Boetzel, Bonnat, Litré, Aubret, Garnier, astruc, Clémenceau, de Kock, Boulanger, de Banville, Daumier) Vol.VII, 24 plates in perfect condition. Minor foxing on the pages of text (Amiral Courtal, Lecomte du Nay, de Vuillefray, de Broglie, Truffaut, Figuier, Ulmann, Blanc, Bellel, de Girardin, Ad. Marie, Ricard, Etex, Daudet, Marchal) Vol.VIII, 25 plates in perfect condition Minor foxing on the pages of text (Pasteur, Barillot, Eifel, Benner, Zola, Fastung, Braquemart, Bridgman, Houssaye, delaunay, Carpentier, Maillet, Chanzy, Jacquet, Sardou, Bellavoine, Malot) The Goupil process of photoglypty is similar to the wooburytype process. Goupil bought the exclusive rights to the process for France in 1867, and renamed it for commercial reasons.
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