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Photography in colonial Australia : the mechanical eye and the illustrated book

by Robert Holden

This bibliography details 130 Australian publications issued before 1900, including numerous items previously unrecorded in national bibliographies or specialist historical studies.

Accession 19684 ISBN 0958847878 Publisher Hordern House
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