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Autograph letter signed by sender. Sending an incomplete copy of the fourth edition of his own book [Traite general de photographie] on photography, which he would like to dedicate to John Frederick William Herschel.

Reference number
HS/12/358
Earliest possible date
1862
Page extent
1 page
Format
Manuscript

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Désiré Charles Emanuel van Monckhoven

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Désiré Charles Emanuel van Monckhoven, Letter, from D. C. E. van Monckhoven to Sir John Herschel, 1862, HS/12/358, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_12_358/letter-from-d-c-e-van-monckhoven-to-sir-john-herschel, accessed on 14 September 2026

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