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FACING THE WORLD: Self-portraits from Rembrandt to Ai Weiwei.
A collaboration between the Staatliche Kunsthalle Larlsruhe, the Musee des Beaux-Arts in Lyon and the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh.
Koln: Snoeck, 2016. 4to., pp.288, paperback, b/w and colour illustrations, b/w frontispiece; a fresh and near-fine copy.
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GARDEN & COSMOS: The Royal Paintings of Jadhpur.
London: The British Museum Press, 2009. 4to.,pp. xiii,337, pictorial card wrappers, colour and b/w illustrations, colour frontispiece, decorative endpapers; ownership autograph to front wrapper verso, light creasing to spine, a very good, clean copy.
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GODS AND DEMONS.
Mineola: Dover Publications, 2010. Small 4to., pp.127, paperback, 247 full colour illustrations, CD-ROM to rear pocket; a near fine copy with just very slight shelf-wear.
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IMAGES OF RAPE. The Heroic Tradition and its Alternatives.
Cambridge University Press, 1999. Large 8vo., pp.xv,286, black cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; a fine copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly creased to extremities.
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LA PEINTURE MURALE ROMANE DANS LES PAYS DE LA LOIRE.
L’indicible et le ruban plissé. (La Mayenne: Archéologie, Histoire - Supplement no. 10: 1999).
Laval: Société d’Archaeologie d’Histoire de la Mayenne. 4to., pp.xv,399, paperback, colour illustrations throughout; small ownership inscription to prelim blank, else a very good+, clean copy.
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MACKINTOSH & OTHERS Aspects of the George Smith Collection, Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, 8 June - 8 October 1988
University of Glasgow, 1988. Exhibition catalogue, 8vo., unpaginated, stapled paperback wrappers, 10 b/w and 5 colour-plates; mild rubbing to extremities, light shelfwear and sticker mark on front wrapper behind the title, overall a very good copy.
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MATTHIAS CORVINUS, THE KING: Tradition and Renewal in the Hungarian Royal Court 1458-1490. Exhibition Catalogue, Budapest History Museum, 19 March 2008- 30 June 2008.
Budapest: Budapest History Museum, 2008. 4to., pp.608, pictorial hardcover, colour illustrations and maps, b/w figures, colour frontispiece; light rubbing to corners of boards, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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MEDIEVAL EFFIGIAL ALABASTER TOMBS IN YORKSHIRE.
Ipswich: Boydell. 8vo., pp.155, grey hardcover lettered in silver, b/w illustrations; a very good, clean copy in vg lightly sunned unclipped dust-jacket.
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MUGHAL INDIA.
Art, Culture and Empire. Manuscripts and Paintings in the British Library.
London: The British Library, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, 4to., pp.255, paperback, colour-illustrated throughout; internally fresh, a very good copy indeed.
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NAJD COLLECTION OF ORIENTAL PAINTINGS.
London: Mathaf Gallery, 1991. Bilingual text in English and Arabic, 4to., pp.247, green cloth, gilt, colour plates; light toning to upper edges of boards, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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NEW GENERATION: 1966.
The Peter Stuyvesant Foundation. Whitechapel Gallery: London June-July, 1966.
London: Whitechapel Gallery, 1966. 8vo.,pp. 110, pictorial wrappers, b/w and colour illustrations; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light rubbing to extremities, very good.
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NOVELTY FAIR: BRITISH VISUAL CULTURE BETWEEN CHARTISM AND THE GREAT EXHIBITION.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016. 8vo.,pp.,xiii,176, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; a very good, near fine copy. No dust-jacket as issued.
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PEERLESS IMAGES.
Persian Painting and Its Sources.
New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2002. 4to., pp.xiii,349, black hardcover, gilt, colour-illustrated throughout; bumping to lower edge of rear board, otherwise fresh and fine, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, again with bumping to rear lower edge.
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PONTIUS PILATE, ANTI-SEMITISM, AND THE PASSION IN MEDIEVAL ART.
Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009. 4to., pp.xiii,464, red cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, 10 colour plates and 186 b/w illustrations; neat ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, cloth darkened to rear upper margin from possible water-staining, otherwise very good indeed, in an unclipped dust jacket, which has inkstaining from cloth to rear upper margin (reverse of jacket), small nick with archival tape reinforcement to head of rear flap, else very good.
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PORTRAITS - A HISTORY.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 2003. 4to., pp.413, wine red cloth lettered in blind, colour-illustrated throughout; slight roll to spine, very good indeed, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which has slight indentation marks.
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REVIVING THE RENAISSANCE.
The Use and Abuse of the Past in Nineteenth-Century Italian Art and Decoration.
Cambridge University Press. Large 8vo., pp.xiii,281, grey hardcover lettered in silver, b/w illustrations; a very good, clean copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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RIGHT UNDER THE SUN: LANDSCAPE IN PROVENCE.
From Classicism to Modernism (1750-1920).
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in association with Snoeck Publishers. 4to., pp.xxi,265, pictorial harcover, colour-illustrated throughout; a fine copy. (No dust-jacket).
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TEACHING AT THE BAUHAUS.
The standard work on the groundbreaking pedagogical concepts of the Bauhaus.
Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantze Verlag, 2000. 8vo., pp.403, pictorial hardcover, 270 b/w illustrations; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, very slight bump to lower edge of front board, a fresh and otherwise fine copy.
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THE ASHINGTON GROUP.
Paintings at Woodhorn Colliery Museum.
Ashington: Ashington Group Trustees, 2006. Oblong 8vo., pp.24, paperback, colour-illustrated; slight toning to upper margins, a near fine copy.
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THE CHURCH OF THE PANAGIA KANAKARIA AT LYTHRANKOMI IN CYPRUS.
Its Mosaics and Frescoes.
Dunbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Trustees for Harvard University. 4to.,pp. 173, blue cloth, gilt, b/w and colour plates, b/w linecuts to rear, colour frontispiece; lightly toned to endpapers and edges, small neat pencil ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a very good copy, in a very goodpartially toned unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities.
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