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British History: [Index]

The Gunpowder Plot. Alan Haynes.Sutton, 2005. (£8.99) Sale price £2.99

Mistress of the House. Great Ladies and Grand Houses 1670-1830. Rosemary Baird. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003. (£20) Sar price £4.99.

Sir William Hamilton Envoy Extraordinary. Brian Fothergill. Pbk. Nonsuch Publishing 2005. (£18.00). Sale price £4.99.

Perdita. The life of Mary Robinson. Paula Byrne. Harper Perennial, 2004. (£7.99) Sale price £2.99.

Queen Emma and the Vikings. Harriet O'Brien. Bloomsbury, 2005. ($24.95) Sale price £4.95

The Life of Nelson. The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain. Alfred Thayer Mahan. Hbk. Naval Institute Press, 2001. ($45.00) Sale price £8.99

Blood and Roses. The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century. Helen Castor. faber and faber, 2004. (£20) Sale price £7.99.

Beau Brummell. The Ultimate Dandy. Ian Kelly. Hodder & Stoughton, 2005. (£20) Sale price £8.99.

English Diplomatic Practice in the Middle Ages. Pierre Chaplais. Hambledon & London, 2003. (£25) Sale price £9.99.

The Origins of the Vigilant State. The London Metropolitan Police Special Branch before the First World War. Bernard Porter. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. (£15.95) Sale price £6.00

The Battle for York. Marston Moor 1644. John Barratt. Tempus, 2002. (£16.99) Sale price £4.99.

The Sutton Companion to Heraldry. Stephen Friar. Pbk. Sutton Publishing 2004. (£14.99). Sale price £6.99.

Military History: [Index]

European & Russian History: [Index]

Sea of Faith. Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World. Steven O'Shea. Profile, 2006. (£20) Sale price £7.99.

1812. Napoleon's Invasion of Russia. Paul Britten Austin. Greenhill, 2000. Sale price £6.99.

The Last European War. September 1939 - December 1941. John Lucas. Yale, 2001. Sale price £4.99.

Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World. M. Rostovtzeff. In 3 hbk volumes. Clarendon, 1998. (£60) Sale price £25.00

American History: [Index]

World History: [Index]

Ingenious Women. From Tincture of Saffron to Flying Machines. Daborah Jaffe. Sutton, 2003. (£17.99) Sale price £5.99.

Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan. Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, 1852-1854. The Official Report of the Expedition to Japan. Compiled by Francis L.Hawks. Nonsuch. 2005. (£25.00) Sale price £6.99.

Alexander III. King of Scots. Marion Campbell. House of Lochar. 1999. (£25.00) Sale price £4.99.

Gardening, Landscape & Natural History. [Index]

The Rock Garden and its Plants from Grotto to Alpine House. Graham Stuart Thomas. hbk. Frances Lincoln, 2004. (£25.00) Sale price £7.95.

Beth Chatto's Damp Garden. Moisture-Loving Plants for Year Round Interest. Cassell, 2005. (£25.00) Sale price £7.95

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

Italian Gardens. Charles A. Platt. Saga Press, 2000. ($34.95) Sale price £5.99

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

Gardens for the New Country Place. The Landscape Architecture of Edmund Hollander. Watson Guptill, 2003. Sale price £12.00

Fletcher Steele, Landscape Architect. An account of the gardenmaker's life, 1885-1971. Abrams, 1989. Sale price £20.00

Lilies for English Gardens. a Guide for Amateurs. Gertrude Jekyll. Hbk. Antique Collectors' Club 1994. (£12.50). Sale price £3.99.

The Life & Gardens of Harvey Ladew. C. Weeks. Johns Hopkins, 1999. Sale price £15.00

The Gardens of Britain & Ireland. The definitive reference. P. Taylor. DK, 2003. ($50.00) Sale price £14.99

The Gardens of Versailles. Jean-Baptiste Leroux. Thames and Hudson, paperback, 2002. (£18.95) Sale price £8.95

The City in a Garden. A Photographic History of Chicago's Parks. paperback, 2001. (£19.00) Sale price £10.00

Roman Gardens. Villas of the City. Photographs by Roberto Schezen. Monacelli Press, 2001, ($40.00) Sale price £16.99

The Complete Guide to Houseplants. Valerie Bradley. Collins and Brown, 2006. (£19.99) Sale price £6.99

The Oxford Companion to the Garden. Ed. P. Taylor. 2006. (£40.00) Sale price £25.00

London's Parks and Gardens. Jill Billington. Frances Lincoln, 2003. (£30.00) Sale price £18.00

Diarmuid Gavin. Outer Spaces. Planning, planting, inspiring. DK, 2003. (£20.00) Sale price £8.00

Gardens Through Time. Jane Owen & Diarmuid Gavin. BBC, 2004. (£25.00) Sale price £9.99

The Changing Garden. Four Centuries of European and American Art. B.G. Fryberger. Univ. California Press, 2003. Sale price £12.99

Theology, Classics & Philosophy [Index]

Western Philosophy: an illustrated guide. Ed. David Papineau. Oxford, 2004. Hbk. (£19.50) Sale price £7.95

John Stuart Mill. A Biography. Nicholas Capaldi. Hbk. Cambridge University Press, 2004. (£28.99) Sale price £8.95.

Literary Biography: [Index]

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

The Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft. Janet Todd (ed). Hbk. Colombia University Press, 2003. (£34) Sale price £6.99.

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.

Parodies of the Romantic Age. ed. G. Stones. Five volumes. No dust-wrappers as published. Pickering & Chatto, 1999. (£395.00) Sale price £120.00 set

Bibliography. [Index]

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

Provenance Research in Book History. A Handbook. David Pearson. The British Library, 1998. Pbk. (£19.95) Sale price £4.99.

Travel: [Index]


Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries. David & Charles Livingstone. Pbk. Nonsuch Publishing, 2005. (£16.00). Sale price £4.99.

The Nile. Robert O. Collins. hbk in d/w. Yale UP. 2002. (£30.00) Sale Price. £6.95

Art: [Index]

Art Monographs:

Bewick, Thomas. Nature's Engraver. A Life of Thomas Bewick. Jenny Uglow. Faber & Faber. 2006. (£20.00) Sale price £5.99

Lord Burlington, Architecture, Art and Life. ed. Toby Barnard. Hambledon Press, 1995. (£55.00) Sale price £8.99

Marc Chagall. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2003. large paperback. ($34.95) Sale price £9.99

Ducros. A Swiss Painter in Italy. National Gallery of Ireland. Pbk. 1998. (£10.50) Sale Price. £4.99.

Andrew Geddes 1783-1844. A Man of Pure Taste. paperback. Nat. Gallery Scotland. 2001. (£12.95) Sale price £4.99

Paul Gauguin. Images from the South Seas. E. Hollmann. paperback. Prestel, 2001. Sale price £2.99

Leonardo Da Vinci. Origins of a Genius. David Alan Brown. Hbk in d/w. Yale University Press 1998. (£37.50). Sale price £22.50.

The Panel Paintings of Masolino and Masaccio. The Role of Technique. Strehlke. 2002. (£50.00) Sale price £30.00

Joan Miro. Painted Sculpture. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington. large paperback. 2002. (£14.95) Sale price £7.50

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

Claes Oldenburg. Drawings in the Whitney Museum of American Art. 2002. ($45.00) Sale price £9.99

Fairfield Porter. A Life in Art. Justin Spring. Fine hbk with d/w. Large 8vo. Yale 2000. Sale Price £12.95.

Raphael and his Circle. Drawings from Windsor Castle. Martin Clayton. Merrell Holberton. 1999. (£39.95) Sale price £12.99

Aleksandr Rodchenko. Experiments for the Future. Diaries, Essays, Letters and Other Writings. Museum of Modern Art. 2005. (£17.95) Sale price £9.99

George Romney, 1734-1802. Alex Kidson. large paperback. National Portrait Gallery. 2002. (£20.00) Sale price £7.99

Scottish Painting:

Italian Art:

American Art:

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

Craft in the Machine Age. The History of Twentieth- Century American Craft 1920-1945. Janet Kardon (ed). Abrams 1995. Hbk with d/w. Sale Price £20.00.

The Pre-Columbian Painting. Murals of the Mesoamerica. Antique Collectors Club. 1999. (£49.99) Sale price £15.00

French Art:

Dutch Art:

Art : General

Manuscript Illumination in the Modern Age. Recovery and Reconstruction. Sandra Hindman, Michael Camille, Nina Rowe, Rowan Watson. Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, 2001. Pbk. (£31.50) Sale Price £9.99.

Farm Animal Portraits. Elspeth Moncrieff. Antique Collectors Club. 1996. Sale price £14.95

Art Deco. Konecky. 2005. paperback. Sale price £4.99

Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in Century Europe. Jonathan Brown. Hbk in d/w. Princeton University Press 1995. ($59.99). Sale price £12.99.

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]

Architecture: [Index]

British Architecture:

Lord Burlington. Architecture, Art and Life. Toby Barnard and Jane Clark (eds). The Hambledon Press, 1995. Hbk. (£55) Sale price £8.99.

Sir John Vanbrugh and Landscape Architecture in Baroque England. C. Ridgway. Sutton, paperback. 2004. (£16.99) Sale price £6.99

Victorian Designs for the Home. Charles Newton. Pbk. V & A Publications 1999. (£16.95). Sale price £4.99.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Photographs by Eric Thorburn. teNeues. Sale price £4.99

European Architecture:

Venetian Villas. Michelangelo Muraro, Paolo Marton. Konemann, 1996. Hbk ($19.95) Sale price £9.99.

Wallpaper in Interior Decoration. Gill Saunders. A fine hbk copy with d/w. 4to. 160pp with colour and b&w illustrations throughout. V&A Publications, 2002. (£30.00) Sale price £12.99.

Enguerran de Marigny and the Church of Notre- Dame at Ecouis. GILLERMAN, Dorothy. Hbk in d/w. Penn State Press. 1994. 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

Palazzo Bricherasio. Restoration and Rehabilitation of a Palazzo in Turin. Milan, 1995. £4.99

Gaudi. Architect and Artist. Roe, Jeremy. Parkstone International. 2006. (£25.00). Sale Price £12.99.

Luigi Moretti. Works and Writings. Princeton, 2002. (£42.00) Sale price £14.95

De Stijl 1917-1931. Visions of Utopia. Oxford, 1988. Sale price £20.00

Adolf Meyer. Der Zweite Mann. Annemarie Jaeggi. Argon, 1994. £35.00

American Architecture:

The Landmarks of New York/ An illustrated record of the city's historic buildings. B. Diamonstein-Spielvogel. Monacelli Press, 2005. Sale price £14.99

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

Architecture and Planning of Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, 1912-1936. Chicago, 1992. Sale price £25.00

Abner Cook. Master Builder on the Texas Frontier. Texas State, 1992. Sale price £10.00

Harvard, an Architectural History. B. Bunting. large paperback, 1985. Sale price £10.00

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

Frank Lloyd Wright. The Early Work of the Great Architect. Gramercy, 1994. £15.00

A New World Trade Center. Design Proposals. Max Protetch. Regan Books, 2002. Sale price £6.00

Louis Sullivan. Prophet of Modern Architecture. Hugh Morrison. 1998. ($30.00) 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:

Emilio Ambasz, a Technological Arcadia. Fulvio Irace. Skira 2004. (£39.00) Sale price £20.00

Sustainable Place. Christine Phillips. paperback, Wiley, 2003. (£36.99) Sale price £15.00

Fragments. Architecture and the Unfinished. Essays presented to Robin Middleton. Thames and Hudson, 2006. (£38.00) Sale price £25.00

Big Shed. Will Pryce. Thames & Hudson, 2007. (£32.00) Sale price £18.00

Absolutely Fabulous. Architecture and Fashion. Ruth Hanisch. Prestel, paperback, 2006. (£22.99) Sale price £12.00

Architecture and Computers. Action and reaction in the digital design revolution. James Steele. Laurence King, 2007. (£35.00) Sale price £15.00

Sky High: Vertical Architecture. Chris Abel. Royal Academy, 2003. (£12.95) Sale price £6.00

Turnberry Consulting. Development: an approach to strategy and management. Black Dog Publishing. 2006. (£24.95) Sale price £10.00

Masters of Structure. Engineering Today's Inovative Buildings. Sutherland Lyall. Laurence King, 2002. (£45.00) Sale price £20.00

The Architect - Women in Contemporary Architecture. Wiley, 2001. Sale price £10.00

Architecture of Authority. Richard Ross. Aperture, 2007. (£22.00) sale price £10.00

Some Assembly Required. Michael Sorkin. Minnesota, paperback, 2001. Sale price £6.00

Antiques & Collecting & Crafts: [Index]

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

Craft in the Machine Age. The History of Twentieth- Century American Craft 1920-1945. Janet Kardon (ed). Abrams 1995. Hbk with d/w. Sale Price £20.00.

Victorian China Fairings. The Collectors Guide. JORDAN, Derek H. Hbk in d/w. Antique Collectors Club. 2003. (£35.00) Sale Price £17.50.

Dhurries. History, Technique, Pattern & Identification Nada Chaldcott. Fine hbk copy with d/w. Thames & Hudson, 2003 (£24.95) . Sale Price £11.99

Collecting Miniature Coloured Cottages. Seabrook. paperback, New Cavendish Books, 1996. Special price £5.99

Music and Film: [Index]

Science: [Index]

Photography: [Index]

The Personal Art of David Octavius Hill. Sara Stevenson. Hbk in d/w. Yale University Press 2002. (£40.00). Sale price £16.99.

Cookery and Wine:

The Essential Rice Cookbook. Whitecap Books, 2003. Sale price £5.99.

Miscellaneous Subjects:

Fortune, "All Is But Fortune". Leslie Thomson. Fine pbk. Folger Shakespeare Library, 2000. (£21.50) Sale Price £3.99

The Playing Cards of Spain, a Guide for Historians and Collectors. Trevor Denning. A good hbk copy in d/w. Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1996. Sale Price £8.99

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