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ENCOUNTERS: The Meeting of Asia and Europe, 1500-1800.
London: V&A Publications, 1500. 4to., pp.(x),395, black hardcover, gilt, colour frontispiece and endpapers, b/w and colour illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE STATE OF DRAWING: GESTURE AND ACT. Selected from the Tate Collection.
New York: Tate Publishing and The Drawing Center, 2003. 4to.,pp. 284, pictorial hardcover, white lettering, b/w and colour illustrations and fold-outs, colour frontispiece; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, occasional underlining and annotation in pencil, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has a small puncture mark to front.
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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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THE MOSAICS OF NORMAN SICILY.
New York: Hacker Art Books, 1988. Reprint, large 8vo., pp.xx,478,120(b/w plates), pictorial oatmeal cloth stamped in brown and lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, b/w plates; a very good, fresh copy. No dust-jacket.
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ARTISTS’ PIGMENTS c.1600-1835.
A Study in English Documentary Sources. Second Edition.
London: Butterworth Scientific, 1600. 8vo., pp.ix,236, black hardcover, 8 colour plates, b/w illustrations; tiny handwritten ownership autograph to head of front paste-down endpaper, and owner’s handwritten catalogue number to head of front free endpaper, light shelfwear, a very good copy.
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ADVENTURES OF THE BLACK SQUARE.
Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015.
Munich/London: Prestel/Whitechapel Gallery, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, 4to., pp.287, pictorial hardcover, colour and b/w plates; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a fine copy.
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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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THE IDEA OF THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE PAINTER.
Genius as Alibi in the Early Nineteenth Century.
New Haven/London: Yale University Press, for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 1997. Large 8vo., pp.x,188, blue hardcover, gilt, colour frontispiece, colour and b/w illustrations; owner’s handwritten catalogue numbers to half title, light spotting to top edges, else a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg+ unclipped 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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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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THE UNKNOWN CATACOMB.
A Unique Discovery of Early Christian Art.
New Lanark: Geddes & Grosset. 4to., pp.180, blue cloth, gilt, 150 illustrations, largely in colour; ownership blindstamp to front free endpaper, a very good copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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ALABASTER.
Derbyshire Museum Service. 4to., pp.68, paperback, colour and b/w illustrations; ownership blindstamp to half title, slightly musty, light shelfwear to wrappers, else very good.
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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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THE SEVENTH SENSE: FRANCIS HUTCHESON AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH AESTHETICS.
Oxford: Clarendon Press. Second, revised and enlarged edition, 8vo., pp.xiv,402, paperback, b/w frontispiece; light crease to spine, partial sunning to wrappers, else clean and very good.
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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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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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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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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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