Old Japanese Photographs: Collectors' Data Guide
- ISBN-10
- 0955085241
- ISBN-13
- 9780955085246
- Category
- Japan
- Pages
- 308
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-01-01
- Author
- Terry Bennett
Description
2e de couverture: Designed to provide a useful and practical reference guide to the history of photography in Japan from its beginnings until 1912, this brings together in one volume the results of important new research and a mass of data ...
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