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On the determination of the Photometric Intensity of the Coronal Light during the Solar Eclipse of April 16th, 1893. Received April 14, - Read April 30, 1896.
(London, Harrison and Sons, 1897). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Year 1896, Volume 187 - Series A. Pp. 433-442.
First printing. Abney was a pioneer in the sensitometry of photographic images, and inventor of a dry photographic emulsion. His ""Instruction in Photography"", 1871 became a standard text.
The Bakerian Lecture. - Colour Photometry. Received ebruary 18, - Read March 4, 1886. (+) Colour Photometry. - Part II. The Measurement of Reflected Colours. Received May 3, - Read May 31, 1888. (2 Papers).
(London, Harrison and Sons, 1886 a. 1889). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1886 - Vol. 177 - Part II. Pp. 423-436 a. 2 plates. 1888, vol. 179 - A. Pp. 547-570 a. 4 plates, textillustrations.
First printing of both papers. ""He (Abney) occupied himself a great deal with photography, photochemical processes, the chemistry of photographic developers and intensifiers, photometric investigations of the law of density of photographic plates, and spectroanalytical work. Importent are his experiments on solarization and the connection of exposures and the intensification of photographic silver bromide gelatine plates.""(Eder History of Photography"", pp. 454-55).
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LIVRE A L’ETAT DE NEUF. EXPEDIE SOUS 3 JOURS OUVRES. NUMERO DE SUIVI COMMUNIQUE AVANT ENVOI, EMBALLAGE RENFORCE. EAN:9781622576531
The pioneers of the Alps. 2nd. ed.
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivingston, 1888, gr. in-4°, VIII + 180 p. richly illustr. in-text & 1 full page (p. 43: 15 diff. ice-axe) + 23 engraved photographic plates (héliogravures after photogr.) with orig. tissue-guards and many illustrations in text, paper in good condition, original cloth binding, corners bumped.
Contains: Growth and development of mountaineering: 1387-1885 (4 periods) / Alpine accidents / Mountaineering without guides / Mountaineering in winter / Ice-axe and rope / Guidecraft. Most of the 24 high quality photographic plates are portraits of Swiss-guides. The author spent much interest in the ‘golden age’ of alpinism (1855-1865), which started on the 17th of September 1854, by the first ascent of the Wetterhorn from the Grindelwald and is ‘a red-letter day’ in the history of modern mountaineering. Perret - 1173 (first & second edition. / Regards sur les Alpes, page 255. Notice 94. Image disp.
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