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Le Petit Daguerréotype ou une fête par mois.
"10. Paris, (imprimerie Firmin Didot), s.d. ( 1840), in-48°, 70 x 50 mm , 96 pp, with 12 full page illustrations. No title page ( as published). Publisher's cased binding in glazed paper with embossed gilt decoration on the front cover. Binding a bit dustsoiled but still a good copy. Very rare Christmas gift book ( livre d'étrennes ) published barely a year after the invention of the daguerrotype photograph. OCLC lists only two copies, with incomplete descriptions. The publication of this book is described in the bibliography of F. Denis '' Nouveau Manuel de bibliographie universelle'' , vol. 2 pp. 446. ( published in Paris by Encyclopédie Roret in 1857) ; and also in Emile Bellier de la Chavignerie '' Manuel bibliographique du Photographe Français '' item 10 on page 6 (published in Paris by A. Aubry in 1863).."
