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VATHEK: AN ARABIAN TALE 1786.
Menston, Scolar Press, 1786. Facsimile, 8vo.,pp. vii,334, paperback; creasing to spine and slightly rolled, rubbed to extremities and light soiling, otherwise very good.
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VATHEK AND OTHER STORIES: A William Beckford Reader.
London, William Pickering. First edition, 8vo.,pp.xxxviii,314, blue hard covers, gilt; near-fine copy in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket which has some soiling to rear, small closed tears and chips to extremities o/w good.
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VEILED WOMEN, Volume II. The Disappearance of Nuns from Anglo-Saxon England; Volume II. Female Religious Communities in England, 871-1066. Studies in Early Medieval Britain Series.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. 8vo., pp.xii,274, red hardcover, gilt, b/w map; very good indeed. (No dust-jacket).
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VENICE.
London: Faber and Faber, 1960. First edition, 8vo., pp.337, pictorial red cloth, gilt, b/w plates and maps; slight roll forward to spine, else very good, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed to edges, with light rubbing to front, else very good.
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VENICE AND VENETIA UNDER THE HABSBURGS 1815-1835.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 8vo., navy hardcover, gilt; very minor bruise to lower margin of front board, else a fresh and near-fine copy in a vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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VENICE CITA EXCELENTISSIMA Selections from the Renaissance Diaries of Marin Sanudo.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 8vo., pp. xlii,598, red hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece; a fine copy in a fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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VENICE & THE GRAND TOUR.
New Haven, Yale University Press. Large 8vo.,pp.v,137, hardcover, gilt, b/w and colour illustrations, colour frontispiece; lightly toned to margins, a near-fine copy, in a fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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VERSAILLES AND THE TRIANONS.
London: William Heinemann, 1906. Signed, limited edition, no. 48 of 100 copies, 4to., pp.viii,305, uncut, full vellum, gilt, t.e.g., tipped-in colour frontispiece and plates with caption sheets; loss to corner of mounted plate at p.163, paper-cracking to front inner hinge, with webbing visible (board firm), surface soil and light wear to edges of endpapers, a very good copy.
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VERTUMNUS SIVE ANNUS RECURRENS (printed 1607); TRES SIBYLLAE (printed 1607). Renaissance Latin Drama in England, First Series: 5.
Hildesheim/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1983. 8vo., pp.23 (Introduction), unpaginated facsimile, paperback (blue wrappers lettered in silver); sunning to spine, light marking to wrappers, internally fresh, a very good copy.
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VICTOR PASMORE. Towards a New Reality.
London;: Lund Humphries, 2016. Exhibition catalogue, 4to., pp.120, hardcover, colour and b/w plates; a few light marks and surface scratches to boards, else a near-fine copy.
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VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM - THE TAPESTRY COLLECTION: Medieval and Renaissance.
London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1980. Oblong 8vo., pp.83, oatmeal cloth, lettering in brown and gilt, colour frontispiece, 108 b/w plates; a near-fine copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, with one small closed tear to rear upper margin, else very good indeed, and now in a protective cover.
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VICTORIAN MEDICINE AND SOCIAL REFORM. Florence Nightingale among the Novelists.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 8vo.,pp. xxi,193, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustration to rear; small ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS MEN AND FAIR WOMEN.
London: Chatto and Windus. Revised, expanded edition, 4to., pp.32(text), 44 monochromatic plates, maroon hardcover, gilt; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, light rubbing to extremities, a very good, clean copy, in vg price-clipped dust-jacket, which has a little creasing to extremities and is now in a protective cover.
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VICTORIAN STONE CARVERS IN DORSET CHURCHES 1856-1880.
With Excerpts from the Reports of the Consecration Ceremonies in the Dorset County Chronicle and Other Sources.
The Dovecote Press, 1856. 8vo.,pp.72, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations, pictorial endpapers; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, sunned to spine, small ink mark to front.
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VIENNA AND THE FALL OF THE HABSBURG EMPIRE.
Total War and Everyday Life in World War I.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 8vo., pp.xv,333, paperback, 18 b/w plates, 2 b/w maps; slight crease to upper corner of rear wrapper, a fresh and near-fine copy.
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VIENNA AND VERSAILLES: THE COURTS OF EUROPE'S DYNASTIC RIVALS, 1550-1780.
Cambridge: University Press, 2007. 8vo., pp.,xi, 349, pictorial paperback, b/w illustrations; a very good copy indeed.
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VIEWS IN DERBYSHIRE,
London: Bremrose & Sons, 1860. Oblong 8vo., pp. 12, yellow cloth-backed card wrappers, 12 tipped-in steel engravings; foxing throughout but plates unaffected except for no.s 5 and 12, light wear to wrappers, overall very good copy.
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VIKING TREASURE FROM THE NORTH WEST: The Cuerdale Hoard in its Context. Selected papers from The Vikings of the Irish Sea conference, Liverpool, 18-20 May 1990. VIKING TREASURE FROM THE NORTH WEST: The Cuerdale Hoard in its Context. National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, Occasional Papers, Liverpool Museum No.5.
Liverpool: National Galleries and Museums on Merseyside, 1992. 4to.,pp. viii,115, pictorial wrappers, b/w figures; ownership autograph to margin of title page, wrappers covered in clear adhesive covering which is wrinkled, internally very good.
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VIKING WORLDS.
Things, Spaces, and Movement.
Oxford/Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2015. 8vo., pp.ix,234, pictorial hardcover, b/w and colour figures; a fresh and near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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VILHELM HAMMERSHOI AND DANISH ART AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY.
New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1992. Folio, pp.463, green cloth lettered in silver, colour and b/w plates; a very good fresh copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly creased to margins, else vg.
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