DAGUERRE, LOUIS JACQUES (1787-1851) Excursions Daguerriennes; Vue & Monuments les plus

DAGUERRE, LOUIS JACQUES (1787-1851) Excursions Daguerriennes; Vue & Monuments les plus remarquables du Globeoblong folio, Paris (Lerebours) 1841 [270 x 365mm]with twenty etched views after photographs, French texts by various people, original binding in embossed linen, title in gilt on upper cover, decorated spine.The earliest attempt to utilise photography, if indirectly, to illustrate a book, further plates were issued later.