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British History: [Index]

Cap of Honour : The 300 years of The Gloucestershire Regiment. David Scott Daniell. Sutton, 2005. (£25.00) Sale price £5.99.


Military History: [Index]


European & Russian History: [Index]

Family Life in the Twentieth Century. David I. Kertzer and Marzio Barbagli. Yale, 2003. (£30.00) Sale price £7.95.


Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World. M. Rostovtzeff. In 3 hbk volumes. Clarendon, 1998. (£60) Sale price £25.


American History: [Index]


World History: [Index]



Empires of the Plain : Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon. Lesley Adkins. Hbk. HarperCollins, 2003. (£20.00) Sale price £6.99.


Gardening, Landscape & Natural History. [Index]


Pruning : A Practical Guide. McHoy, Peter. Abbeville Press 1993. ($35.00) Sale price £5.99.



Greater Perfections : The Practice of Garden Theory. Hunt, John Dixon. Pbk. Thames & Hudson 2004. (£18.95) Sale price £4.99

The Gardens of Versailles. Pierre-Andre Lablaude. Scala, 2005. (£19.95) Sale price £6.99.


The Romantic Garden. Graham Rose. paperback, Frances Lincoln, 2003. (£10.99) Sale price £3.99


The Water Garden. George Plumptre. pbk. Thames & Hudson. 2003. Sale Price £7.99

Country, Park and City. The Architecture and LIfe of Calvert Vaux. Francis Kowsky. paperback, Oxford, 2003. sale price £5.99

The Graham Stuart Thomas Rose Book. Graham Stuart Thomas. Frances Lincoln, 2004. (£35.00) Sale price £16.99.

English Pleasure Gardens. Rose Standish Nichols. Pbk. Godine, 2003. Sale price £4.99.

Lilies for English Gardens. Gertrude Jekyll. Hbk. Antique Collectors's Club, 1994. (£12.99) Sale price £3.99.

The Garden Lover's Guide to Britain. Patrick Taylor. Pbk. Princeton Architectural Press, 1998. (£14.95) Sale price £5.95.

Gardening with Silk and Gold : A History of Gardens in Embroidery. Thomasina Beck. Pbk. David & Charles, 2002. (£14.99) Sale price £6.99.


Theology, Classics & Philosophy [Index]


Literary Biography: [Index]


A Bibliography of Henry James. Edel, Leon; Laurence, Dan H.; Rambeau, James. Oak Knoll Press 1999. (£50.00) Sale Price £4.99.

Further Letters of Mrs. Gaskell. Chapple, John; and Shelston, Alan (eds.) Manchester Univ. press. 2003. (£18.99) Sale Price £4.99.


A Portrait of Jane Austen. David Cecil. Fine pbk. Penguin 2000. (£7.99) Sale Price £3.99.

Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents. William Beckford of Fonthill. Nonsuch, 2006. (£25.00) Sale price £5.99.


Poetry:


Novels:


Literary Criticism:

A Memoir of the York Press, with Notices of Authors, Printers, and Stationers, in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Robert Davies. A very good copy with d/w. Ken Spelman Books, 1988. Sale Price £12.00.


Bibliography. [Index]

Joseph Heller : A Descriptive Bibliography. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Park Bucker. Hbk. Oak Knoll Press, 2002. ($100.00) Sale price £10.00.

Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge. Volumes VII and VIII - Facsimile of Pepys's Catalogue edited by David McKitterick. D.S. Brewer, 1991.(£170.00) Sale price £65.00

Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhaara : The British Library Kharoosothai Fragments. Salomon, Richard. The British Library. 1999. Sale Price £7.99

Theatre D'Amour : The Garden of Love and its Delights. Carsten-Peter Warncke. Taschen, 2005. Sale price £9.99.

Early Lithographed Books : A Study of the Design and Production of Improper Books in the Age of the Hand Press. Twyman, M.. Bookpress 1990. ($64.50) sale Price £14.99.

For the Love of binding. Essays in Honour of Mirjam Foot. Edited By David Pearson. British Library 2000. Sale Price £30.00

Bookbinder's Finishing Tool Makers 1780-1965. Conroy, Tom. Oak Noll Press 2002. Sale Price £9.99


Travel: [Index]

Mad About the Mekong. Exploration and Empire in South-East Asia. John Keay. Harper-Collins 2005. (£20.00). Sale Price £5.99


Adventures in Egypt and Nubia. The Travels of William John Bankes (1786-1855). USICK, Patricia. British Museum Press 2002. (£25.00. Sale Price £9.99


Art: [Index]

Sensation and Sensibility : Viewing Gainsborough's Cottage Door. Bermingham, A. Hbk. Yale, 2005. (£40.00) Sale price £16.99.

The Pictorial Arts of the West, 800-1200. Dodwell, C. R. Pbk. Yale, 1995. (£25.00) Sale price £12.99.

Paul Signac, 1863-1935. Signac, Paul; Bocquillon-Ferretti, Marina. Hbk. Yale, 2001. (£50.00) Sale price £14.99.

James McNeill Whistler : Uneasy Pieces. Curry, David Park. Hbk. VMFA, 2004. (£30.00) Sale price £16.99.

Jean Helion. Paul Holberton. 2004. Pbk. ($50.00) Sale Price £19.99.

The Tres Riches Heures: One of the Miracles of Art History. Meiss, Milard. George Braziller 2009. ($125.00) Sale price £29.99.

Raphael & The Beautiful Banker : The Story of the BIndo Altoviti Portrait. Brown, David Alan; Van Nimmen, Jane. Yale 2005. ($37.00) Sale price £10.99.

Juan Van der Hamen y Leon : And the Court of Madrid; Jordan, William B. Yale 2005. Hbk. ($65.00) Sale Price £19.99

The Cambridge Companion to Masaccio. Ahl, Diane Cole (ed.) Cambridge 2002. (£20.99) Sale price £5.99. Ink mark to top edge.

The Cambridge Companion to Piero Della Francesca. Wood, Jeryldene M. (ed.) Cambridge 2002. (£20.99) Sale price £5.99. Ink mark to bottom edge.

Apostles in England : Sir James Thornhill and the Legacy of Raphael's Tapestry Cartoons. Meyer, Arline. Pbk. Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery 1996. Sale Price £7.99


Spencelayh : Charles Spencelayh. Noakes, Aubrey. Hbk. Chaucer Press 2006. (£30.00) Sale price £14.99

Walter Sickert : A Life. Matthew Sturgis. Harper Collins 2005. Hbk. (£30.00) Sale Price £6.99.

Monet at Giverny. Sagner-Duchting, Karen. Prestel 1999. Pbk. (£5.99) Sale Price £2.99.

Cubism and Its Legacy : The Gift of Gustav and Elly Kahnweiler. Mundy, Jennifer (ed.) Pbk. Tate 2004. (£14.99) Sale Price £6.99.


John Bewick : Engraver on Wood 1760-1795. Nigel Tattersfield. Hbk. British Library, 2001. (£40.00) Sale price £12.99.

Cezanne : The Self-Portraits. Steven Platzman. Thames & Hudson, 2001. (£19.95) Sale price £9.99.

Delacroix Pastels. Lee Johnson. George Braziller, 1995. ($85.00) Sale price £24.99.

James Ensor: Catalogue Raisonne. Taevemier, August. Exhibitions International 1999. Sale Price £30.00.

Fra Angelico. Beissel, Stephan. Parkstone 2007. Sale Price £19.95.

Monet in the 20th Century. Paul Hayes Tucker. A very good hbk copy in d/w. Yale University Press, 1999. (£40.00) Sale Price £25.00

Raphael and His Circle, Drawings from Windsor Castle. CLAYTON, Martin. Merrell 1999. (£39.95) Sale Price £12.99.

George Stubbs : The Complete Engraved Works. Lennox-Boyd, Christopher; Clayton, Tim; Dixon, Rob. Sothebys 2002. (£145.00) Sale Price £39.99.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler Pastels. Robert H. Getscher (intro.) George Braziller,1991.($85.00) Sale price £24.99.


Scottish Painting:


Italian Art:

After Raphael : Painting in Central Italy in the Sixteenth Century. Hall, Marcia. Hbk. Cambridge 1998. Sale price £16.99. Ink mark on bottom edge.

The Mattioli Collection: Masterpieces of the Italian Avant-garde. Fergonzi, Flavio skira 2003. (£45.00) Sale Price £19.99.

Renaissance Cassoni. Masterpieces of Early Italian Art; Painted Marriage Chests 1400-1550. Hughes, Graham. Starcity Art Books. 1997. Sale Price £12.99.


American Art:

Debating American Modernism: Stieglitz, Duchamp, and the New York Avant-Garde. Balken, Debra Bricker. American Fed of Arts 2003. ($35.00). Sale Price £9.99.

Plain Painters. Making Sense of American Folk Art. John Michael Vlach. paperback. Smithsonian. 1988. (£19.50) Sale price. £5.95


French Art:

The Impressionists at Home. Todd, Pamela. Hbk. Thames & Hudson 2005. (£19.95) Sale price £7.95


Dutch & German Art:

Neoclassicism and Biedermeier. Kraftner, Johann. Prestel. Prestel 2004. (£22.99) Sale Price £6.99


Art : General

Modern Art : From 1900-1945. Zuffi, Stefano; Crepaldi, Gabriele. Hbk. Collins, 2007. (£40.00) Sale price £19.99

A World of Our Own : Women As Artists since the Renaissance. Borzello, Frances. Hbk. Thames & Hudson 2000. (£28.00) Sale price £9.99

Art in Rome : In the Eighteenth Century. Bowron, Peter; Rishel, Joseph. Merrell 2000. Sale Price £29.99

George III and Queen Charlotte : Patronage, Collecting and Court Taste. Roberts, Jane. Royal Collections Publications 2004. Sale Price £24.99

A Noble Art. Amateur Artists and Drawing Masters, C1600-1800. Sloan, Kim. A fine large format paperback copy. British Museum Press. 2000. (£29.99) Sale Price. £6.99.

Harmony & Contrast. A Journey through East Asian Art. Jane Wilkinson. paperback. Nat Mus Scotland. 1996. Sale price £3.99


Design: [Index]

Alphabets to Order. Johnston, Alastair. Oaknoll 2001. Sale Price £9.99.

The Papered Wall. HOSKINS, Lesley (Editor). Thames and Hudson 2005. Sale Price £8.99


Architecture: [Index]

Unfolding History : Castles, Fortresses and Citadels. Stierlin, Henri. Hbk. Thames & Hudson 2006. (£19.95) Sale price £9.95


British Architecture:

Sir John Soane : The Royal Academy Lectures. Watkin, David (ed.) Pbk. Cambridge 2000. Sale price £9.99. Ink mark to bottom edge.

The Twentieth Century House in Britain : From the Archives of Country Life. Powers, Alan. Hbk. Aurum Press, 2004. (£40.00) Sale price £14.99

Trafalgar Square : A Visual History of London's Landmark Through Time, Hood, Jean, Batsford, 2005, (£15.99) Sale Price £3.99


European Architecture:

Ferruccio Vitale. Landscape Architect of the Country Place Era. SCHNADELBACH, R. Terry. Princeton 2001. (£42.00) Sale Price £19.95


Rainbow Like an Emerald, Stained Glass in Lorraine in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries. Meredith Parsons Lillich. A very good hbk copy in d/w. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991. (£44.50) Sale Price £18.95

Palazzo Bricherasio. Restoration and rehabilitation of a Palazzo in Turin. 159pp. Lybra Immagine, 1995. Sale price £4.99


American Architecture:

Robert Mills, America's First Architect. John M. Bryan. Princeton, 2001. (£30.00) Sale price £12.95

The Show to End All Shows. Frank LLoyd Wright and the Museum of Modern Art, 1940. paperback. 2004. (£16.00) Sale price £6.99

Louis Henry Sullivan. Mario Manieri Elia. Princeton. (£42.00) Sale price £19.95

On Distant Shores : Colonial Houses Around the World. Ovidio Guaita. Hbk in d/w. The Monacelli Press 1999. (£40.00). Sale price £14.99.


20th Century Architecture:


Antiques & Collecting & Crafts: [Index]


White Salt-Glazed Stoneware of the British Isles. Edwards, Diana; Hampson, Rodney. Hbk. Antique Collectors Club, 2004. (£45.00) Sale price £22.50.

Camille Faure. Limoges Art Deco Enamels. The Geometry of Joy. Shayo, Alberto. Hbk. Antique Collectors Club, 2004. (£49.50) Sale price £25.00.

Gardening with Silk and Gold: a History of Gardens in Embroidery. Thomasina Beck. Pbk. David & Charles 2002. (£14.99). Sale price £6.99.


Music and Film: [Index]


Science: [Index]

Discovering Dorothea : The Life of the Pioneering Fossil-Hunter Dorothea Bate. Karolyn Schindler. Hbk. HarperCollins, 2005. (£25) Sale price £4.99.


Photography: [Index]


Cookery and Wine:

Well Dressed Salad : Paperback Edition. Jennifer Joyce. Pavillion 2006. (£12.99) £5.99

The Essential Rice Cookbook. Whitecap Books, 2003. Sale price £2.99. Note price reduction!


Miscellaneous Subjects:

Megaliths : The Ancient Stone Monuments of England and Wales. Corio, Lai Ngan. Jonathan Cape 2003. (£35.00) Sale price £12.99

The Villages of England. Richard Muir. Pbk. Thames & Hudson, 2004. (£12.95) Sale price £4.95.

King Arthur : Hero and Legend. Barber, Richard. Boydell 2004. (£9.99) Sale Price £4.99.


Taking Flight. Investigating the Aerial Age From Antiquity Through The First World War. Hallion, Richard P. OUP 2003. ($35.00) Sale Price £6.99.

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