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BACON.
Milan: Skira, 2008. Exhibition catalogue, English edition, 4to., pp.250, black cloth lettered in navy, colour plates throughout, including folding plates; slight tone to edges, a fresh and near-fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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BACON: Portraits and Self-Portraits.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1996. 4to.,pp. 215, black cloth, silver lettering to spine, silver emblem to front board, colour illustrations and fold-out illustrations, colour frontispiece; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, otherwise near-fine, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities.
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BEAUVAIS CATHEDRAL.
Architecture of Transcendence.
Princeton, N.J.; Princeton University Press. 4to., pp.xvii,178, cloth, gilt, 180 b/w illustrations; a fine copy, in fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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BELLMER.
Chicago: William and Noma Copley Foundation. Made and printed by Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. (London), 1961. Oblong 8vo., pp.(33), white hardcover lettered in black, one colour plate, 14 b/w plates as well as b/w frontispiece portrait and further b/w in-text illustrations; light toning to margins, a very good copy, in acetate wrapper, which has large area of loss to front upper margin. Includes Alain Jouffroy’s introductory essay in French as 4pp. loose-leaf insert.
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BEN NICHOLSON - PAINTINGS, RELIEFS, DRAWINGS. Volume I.
London: Lund Humphries, 1955. Reprint (first published 1948; this volume covers work from 1911 to 1948), 4to., grey cloth lettered in black, colour frontispiece, colour and b/w plates; mildly ex library, with inkstamp and residue of removed bookplate to front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked, a clean and good+ copy. No dust-jacket.
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BERNARDO BELLOTTO: A VENETIAN PAINTER IN WARSAW.
Milan: 5 Continents Editions (for The Louvre). Oblong 4to., pp.133, pictorial hardcover, colour plates, pictorial endpapers; ownership inkstamp to half-title and to title verso (with offsetting to adjacent pages), else near-fine.
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BETWEEN SENSE AND DE KOONING.
London: Reaktion Books, 2011. 4to.,pp. 312, hardcover, silver lettering, colour and b/w illustrations, colour frontispiece; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, otherwise near-fine, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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BEYOND PILGRIM SOUVENIRS AND SECULAR BADGES. Essays in Honour of Brian Spencer.
Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2007. Large 8vo., pp.xvi,200, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; neat ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, a very good copy indeed.
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BRASS AND GLASS. Scientific Instrument Making Workshops in Scotland as Illustrated by Instruments from the Arthur Frank Collection at the Royal Museum of Scotland.
National Museums of Scotland, 1989. 4to., pp.xiii,320, paperback, b/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations; light crease to lower margin of front wrapper and early leaves, else very good.
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BREAKFAST SPECIAL, Numbers 1-5:
No. 1 - El Dottore Di Terracotta; No. 2 - La Carte Propre; No. 3 - Miasto Alfabet; No. 4 - El Cabellete; No. 5 - Southwark Soil Creep.
London: (Woolley Dale Press), 1987. Limited edition, no. 65 of 100 copies, 8vo., five volumes in varicoloured card wrappers, each with an inlaid colour plate to front wrapper, colour-illustrated throughout, folded synopsis leaf; just very slight sunning to spines, a near-fine set, in navy slipcase, with title label to spine.
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BREITLING. The History of a Great Brand of Watches. 1884 to the Present. With Price Guide. A Schiffer Book for Collectors.
Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 1995. 4to., pp.176, red cloth lettered in black, colour and b/w plates; a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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BRICE MARDEN.
London: Serpentine Gallery, 2001. 4to.,pp. 69, paperback, exhibition catalogue, colour illustrations, colour plates and fold-outs; light creasing to rear and along rear edge of spine, a very good copy.
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BRICK AND MARBLE ARCHITECTURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES:
Notes of a Tour in the North of Italy.
London: John Murray, 1855. First edition, 8vo., pp.xix,287, 32 (publishers adverts), half bound in publishers leather and marbled paper, contrasting leather title inlay to spine, gilt, many b/w illustrations; slight yellowing of pages, ex libris book plate to front paste down, light rubbing to edges and boards, overall a very good copy indeed.
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BRITISH WATCHCASE GOLD AND SILVER MARKS 1670 TO 1970.
A History of Watchcase Makers and Registers of Their Marks From Original Assay Office Records in England, Ireland, and Scotland.
Columbia: The National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, 2018. 4to., pp.xii,497, pictorial glazed hardcover, b/w figures; lower corner of rear board lightly curved, puncture to paper covering over spine at rear inner margin, else a fresh and near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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BROODTHAERS: Writings, Interviews, Photographs.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1988. 8vo.,pp. 210, paperback, b/w illustrations; sunned and lightly creased to spine, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.
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BRYAN PEARCE: THE ARTIST AND HIS WORK.
Bristol: Sansom and Company, 2000. Signed first edition, oblong 4to., pp.144, green cloth lettered in black, colour plates; light spotting to endpapers, a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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BY HIS OWN LABOR: THE BIOGRAPHY OF DARD HUNTER.
New Castle, Oak Knoll Press. Large 8vo.,pp.xxv,332, blue cloth, gilt; b/w illustrations and frontispiece, fine, in a fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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CANALETTO & ENGLAND.
London: Merrell Holberton/Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, 4to., pp.192, paperback, colour and b/w illustrations; ownership inscription to half title, otherwise clean, a very good copy.
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CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL PRECINCTS: A Historical Survey.
Canterbury: Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, 2007. 8vo.,pp. xii,258, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations and plans; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, otherwise near-fine, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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CARO AT LONGSIDE: SCULPTURE AND SCULPITECTURE.
Wakefield: Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2001. Exhibition catalogue, 4to., pp.79, paperback, colour-illustrated; ownership autograph concealed within flap of front wrapper, a near-fine copy.
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