Antique Cameras
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Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light toning. DJ with light wear, age tone. Seller Inventory # 9999-999102259056
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Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Seller Inventory # GOR002586606
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Seller: SN Books Ltd, Thetford, United Kingdom
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Orders shipped daily from the UK. Professional seller. Seller Inventory # mon0000497796
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Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 2nd class tracked post within 12 hours of receipt of order. Seller Inventory # mon0000146182
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Seller: bookworms of Cromer, Cromer, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardback with dust jacket,size 8vo,160 pages.Illustrated with b/w plates.Boards & dust jacket shows some light edge wear & marking + browning.Browning & marking to the fore edges & prelims otherwise contents good & complete.Most items will incur extra charges for international shipping.These can be substantial for orders outside of Europe.Please consider this before buying. Seller Inventory # 006922
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Seller: Cocksparrow Books, Salisbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: VG+/ VG++/VG. y 1st Edn. 1st Imp. HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Pub: * 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.* 1975-01-01. n. Seller Inventory # 9116
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Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in light blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. There is an attractive bookplate to the front paste down. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Covering the period from 1839 to 1914, 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 first part deals with the advancements of the Victorian period: collapsible cameras, stereoscopic and panoramic cameras, the evolution of the bellows camera. And then, after 40 years of long, timed exposures, a chance discovery reduced exposures to a small fraction of a second. The second part follows the rise of the new photography which resulted from the momentous development. 160 pages; 132 b&w photos and illustrations; 6 x 8 inches. Ref V V V 2. Seller Inventory # 031140
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Seller: Buli-Antiquariat, Gumtow, Germany
OPbd. / Hardcover mit OU. 166 S.; zahlreiche Abbildungen, Umschlag minim. Gebrauchsspuren. Frühe Fotoapperate Size: 22 x 15 Cm. 550 Gr. Seller Inventory # 020881