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Antique Cameras
by SMITH, R.C
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG++/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0715368400
- ISBN 13
- 9780715368404
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Pub: David & Charles.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine strip and no title to face. No bumps, minimal rubs, no other visible faults. VG++* Jacket condition: Photo-illustrated dust wrapper, black and orange titles to face and faded spine. Some age and wear with small tear at foot of spine. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Some marks to end papers, top corner of ffep torn. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with light reading wear, no marks to text. Slight toning to all edges. VG+* Illustrations: Numerous mono photos and b/w line drawings throughout.* Pages: 157 pp. text. iv pp. acknowledgements, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: From the invention of photography in 1839 up to the beginning of the last century, camera design underwent a radical transformation. This book describes and illustrates with line drawings the development of early cameras from the first hand-made, polished mahogany boxes to the precision engineering of the folding Kodak. The Victorian period saw the introduction of the sliding box and the collapsible cameras in which the wet-collodion plates could be prepared and developed; and the evolution of the bellows camera. Written by a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, this book is for all those interested in the design and technical structure of the camera as well as its visual results.* A NEAR VG++ text copy with some age and jacket wear reducing it to VG.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9116
- Title
- Antique Cameras
- Author
- SMITH, R.C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG++/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edn. 1st Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0715368400
- ISBN 13
- 9780715368404
- Publisher
- David & Charles
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 161
- Date Published
- 1975-01-01
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- Edges
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- Cloth
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