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A practical manual of photography : containing full and plain directions for the economical production of really good daguerreotype portraits, and every other variety of photographic pictures according to the latest improvements, also the injustice and validity of the patent considered, with suggestions for rendering a such patent a virtual dead letter, etc. (1845)

Hogg, Jabez, 1817-1899 · London : E. Mackenzie · leaf 64

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