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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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THE DISCOVERY OF THE ART OF THE INSANE.
Chichester: Princeton University Press, 1989. 4to., pp.xix,390, paperback, 8 pages of colour plates, numerous b/w in-text illustrations; owner’s ink inscription and drawing to prelim blank (with slight ink transfer to front cover verso), light shelf-wear and rubbing to extremities, light creasing to wrappers, spine lightly rolled, a good+, internally clean copy.
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PRINCES AND PAINTERS IN MUGHAL DELHI, 1707-1857.
New Haven and London: Asia Society Museum, in association with Yale University Press, 2012. Exhibiion catalogue, 4to., pp.xix,212, pictorial hardcover, colour plates; slight bruise to upper corner of front board, a fresh and near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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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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BLACK VICTORIANS: Black People in British Art 1800-1900.
Aldershot: Lund Humphries, in association with Manchester Art Gallery and Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, 4to., pp.208, paperback, colour plates, b/w illustrations; partial sunning to front wrapper, a very good, fresh copy.
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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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THE COLOUR OF LONDON: Historic, Personal, & Local.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1907. First edition, Large 8vo.,pp. xlij,236, beige cloth, lettered and colour blocked in red with gilt decoration to front board, gilt lettering to spine, gilt to upper edge of text-block, colour plates and colour frontispiece; toned and foxed to edges of text-block and endpapers, also to title page, foxing extending lightly throughout, with heavier foxing to p.49, webbing visible to inner hinge at p.xxv, all contents firm, lightly rubbed and toned to spine and extremities, overall a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE CHINESE BRONZES OF YUNNAN.
The Bowater Library of Chinese Civilization.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd., in association with Cultural Relics Publishing House, Beijing, 1983. Folio., pp.261, green cloth, gilt, colour and b/w plates; slight sunning to edges, a very good, clean copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed and lightly worn to the extremities, with a couple of knocks/scuffs to rear. Now in a protective cover.
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EROTIC COMICS: Two Volumes. Volume 1; Volume 2: From the 1970s to the Present Day.
Cambridge: ILEX, 2008. First UK edition, two volumes, oblong 8vo.,pp. 192; 192, pictorial hardcovers, colour illustrations and frontispieces; near-fine, in near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jackets.
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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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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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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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VOTIVE PANELS AND POPULAR PIETY IN EARLY MODERN ITALY.
Cambridge: Cambridge Universtiy Press, 2013. 8vo.,pp. xiii,248, hardcover, gilt, b/w and colour plates; ownership bookplate to front paste down endpaper, ink stamp marked as damaged to publication page, a very good copy indeed in a vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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LEONARDO DA VINCI: The Biography.
London: Simon Schuster, 2017. 8vo.,pp. xii,599, hardcover, bronze lettering, b/w and colour illustrations, pictorial endpapers; a near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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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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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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ARTISTS BOOKS: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook.
New York: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1985. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 269, brown hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; lightly rubbed to extremities, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities, with light wear to foot of spine, lightly sunned to spine.
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A CULTURAL HISTORY OF COLOR IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT.
(A Cultural History of Color, Volume 4)
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Large 8vo., pp.x,252, pictorial glazed hardcover, colour plates and b/w figures; very slight roll to spine, else near-fine. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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A CULTURAL HISTORY OF COLOR IN THE MEDIEVAL AGE.
(A Cultural History of Color, Volume 2)
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Large 8vo., pp.xii,260, pictorial glazed hardcover, colour plates and b/w figures; light bruising to upper corners of boards, else near-fine. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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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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