The History of Photography from the Earliest Use of the Camera Obscura in the Eleventh Century up to 1914.

Bookseller

Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books (US)

Bookseller's Inventory #

74318

Title

The History of Photography from the Earliest Use of the Camera Obscura in the Eleventh Century up to 1914.

Author

GERNSHEIM, Helmut and Alison

Illustrator

Illustrated.

Format/Binding

Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth in dust jacket.

Book Condition

Used - A few light spots to cloth; in a chipped and lightly soiled jacket with a few internal tape repairs.

Edition

First edition.

Binding

Hardcover

Publisher

Oxford University Press,

Place of Publication

London and New York:

Date Published

1955.

Pages

xxv, 395 pp.

Size

Small folio,

Bookseller catalogs

Photography;

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