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1839 November 2.  New-York Observer.  (New York, New York.)  November 2, 1839, Vol. XVII, No. 41, Whole No. 860, P. 2.

Photography—The Daguerreotype.—We have devoted our last page this week to M. Daguerre’s account of his mode of obtaining in a few minutes, perfect, fixed, and durable photographic images or pictures, of any object in the material world.  The little volume from which we copy had but just been issued from the London press when the Liverpool sailed, and as it has not yet been republished here, this number of our paper will convey to the different parts of our country the first satisfactory account of the most brilliant discovery of the present age.  It will be read with interest by all artists and men of science.

The whole apparatus, including the camera obscura, iodine box, mercury box, thermometer, funnel, cups, lamps, troughs, stands, frames, silvered plates, &c. may be obtained of Mr. G. W. Prosch, philosophical instrument maker, 140 Nassau st., who is ready, we understand, to deliver the instrument complete for the sum of forty dollars.  The price charged in Paris, at first , was 400 francs, or $75 In London, we believe, it is sold for £12 sterling, or about $60.  The lenses for the camera are made in the best manner by J. G. Wolf, 86 Nassau st., and the chemical ingredients, Iodine, hyposulphate, &c. by J. G. (sic.) Chilton, chemist, Broadway.