Australie - Un Voyage a Travers le Bush.
Geneva, Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1868.
Large 8vo. 268 pp. 10 full page mounted photographic plates, with 10 further photographic plates mounted in the text. Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked with the original spine laid down, gilt, a.e.g. bookplate to front pastedown.
€ 3,750.00
First edition. An unusual work illustrated with photographic illustrations by G. Liquier. In the 1860s photographic printing became cheaper and several publishers used the technique as an alternative to lithographic or woodcut illustration.
References
Ferguson, 12251.