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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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BRONCIA KOLLER, 1863-1934.
Christian Brandstatter Verlag, 2006. 4to., pp.255, grey cloth lettered in black, colour plates; fine, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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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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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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CARAVAGGIO. A Life Sacred and Profane.
London: Allen Lane, 2010. First edition, 8vo., pp.xxviii,514, red hardcover, white lettering, colour plates, b/w illustrations, 5 maps, pictorial endpapers; lightly toned, very slight soiling to edges, very slightly rubbed, a very good copy, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is slightly soiled, lightly worn to extremities and has a small closed tear to headband, overall good+.
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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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CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH.
London: Thames & Hudson, 2000. 4to.,pp. 299, brown hardcover, gilt, colour illustrations; torn along inner hinge of front endpapers, otherwise very good and clean, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities.
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CATHEDRAL SHRINES OF MEDIEVAL ENGLAND.
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 8vo., pp.x,276, black hardcover lettered in silver, b/w frontispiece; small crease to upper corners of pp.147-58, with very slight crease to several leaves thereafter, a very good copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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CAVES OF THE THOUSAND BUDDHAS.
Chinese Art from the Silk Route.
London: British Museum Publications. 4to., pp.208, red hardcover, gilt, colour and b/w illustrations; a very good copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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CEDRIC MORRIS AND CHRISTOPHER WOOD: A FORGOTTEN FRIENDSHIP.
London: Unicorn Press, 2012. 4to., pp.120, pictorial card wrappers, colour plates; a fine copy.
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CHINA ON PAPER.
European and Chinese Works from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century.
Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2007. 4to., pp.ix,235,(ii), orange hardcover, gilt, colour-illustrated; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, else a fresh, fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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CISTERCIAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN THE BRITISH ISLES.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Large 8vo.,pp. xix,453, blue cloth, black title band with gilt lettering to spine, b/w plates, b/w figures and maps; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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CLOTH AND CLOTHING IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE.
Essays in Memory of Professor F.M. Carus-Wilson. Pasold Studies in Textile History 2.
London: Heinemann Educational Books/The Pasold Research Fund Ltd. 8vo., pp.xiv,401, black cloth lettered in silver, b/w illustrations and figures; rubbing to extremities, internally clean and otherwise very good, in lightly worn unclipped dust-jacket, a good+ copy overall.
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CLYFFORD STILL.
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1979. 4to., pp.222, black hardcover, red lettering, many colour illustrations; a few small marks to front free endpaper, otherwise internally clean, a few very light marks to boards, else a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket with a few marks to front and rear now in a protective cover.
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