Dec 07, 2001 - Sale 1918

Sale 1918 - Lot 98

Price Realized: $ 1,150
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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 600
HILL, LEVI L. A Treatise on Heliochromy; or, the Production of Pictures, by Means of Light, in Natural Colors . . . Together with Various Processes for Natural Colors, on Paper, Velvet, Parchment, Silk, Muslin, Porcelain, Wood, &c., and Elaborate Essays. 8vo, pictorial-stamped, gilt-lettered cloth, hinges starting, loss to backstrip; light foxing throughout. first edition.<><\t>New York: Robinson & Caswell, 1856

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This treatise describes Hill's controversial and contested "Hillotype," a process he discovered in 1850 for producing color daguerreotypes.<