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Desdouits, M

Desdouits, M. Le livre de la nature I-IV. Ouvrage entièrement refondu et mis au niveau des connaissances actuelles. 4 volumes. Librairie d´Education de Perisse Frères, Paris & Lyon, 1844.
Four small 8vo volumes in nice contemporary brown splashed leather bindings. Spines gilt ornamented with black, gilt lettered title labels. Marbled edges and endpapers. Slight wear to parts of boards, Vol. I; (II), (II) Steelengraved frontispiece, (IV) title with engraving, IV, VIII, p. 10 - 316 , last blank. A bit odd pagination, but complete. 3 full page steelengraved plates incl. frontispiece. Vol. II; (II), , (II), engr. front. , (IV) title with engr. , 294 pages, last blank. 3 fullpage engr. with the front. Vol. III; (II), (II), engr. front. , IV, 318 pages. 3 fullpage engr. with the front. Vol. IV; (II), (II) engraved front. (IV), 314 pages. 2 fullpage engr. , 3 with the front. Slight foxing in the beginning and the end in all volumes, else only occasional spots.
In this third, expanded edition one of three new chapters treats "the new art of photography. " It´s in the third volume, 3 pages, in a chapter entitled "Influences chimiques de la lumiere - De la photographie. "