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(PURCELL, Katherine) FABERGE AND THE RUSSIAN JEWELLERS. 10th to 20th May 2006. £ 12.00

London. Wartski. 2006. pp. 114. Well illustrated. 4to. Paperback, corners slightly bent. A Loan Exhibition in aid of the Samaritans. A good, clean copy.

Reference: 61923

 
BLACK WATCH. 3RD BATTALION THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF SCOTLAND. AVIATION ASSAULT BATTLE GROUP. The 209 Afghanistan Tour of the Black Watch 3rd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland. £ 12.00

Foreword by HRH The prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay. Barnsley. Pen & Sword. 2011. pp. 320. Illustrated in colour. Royal 8vo. D/W. ISBN 9781848845367. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 30511

 
CECIL, Mirabel & David Mlinaric. MLINARIC ON DECORATING. £ 30.00

London. Frances Lincoln Ltd. 2008. pp. 320. Very well illustrated in colour. 4to. D/W. ISBN 9780711225411. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 83050

 
CHAPMAN, Tony. WAR OF THE MOTOR GUN BOATS. One Man's Personal War at Sea with the Coastal Forces 1943 - 1945. £ 6.00

Barnsley. Pen & Sword. 2013. pp. xii, 163. Illustrated. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 9781783462247. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 9008

 
CIESLAK, Marek LEKKI KRAZOWNIK LEIPZIG. £ 10.00

Gdansk. AJ Press. 2004. pp. 72. Well illustrated in the text and with 2 separate sheets of diagrams (1 sheet, double sided and folded) loosely inserted. Royal 8vo. Paperback. Text in Polish, illustration captions in English & Polish. Encyklopedia Okretow Wojennych 41. A very good bright, clean copy. ISBN 837237144x

Reference: 15865

 
CLARKSON, John & Roy Fenton. FEILDEN'S MERSEY. A selection of the post-war ship photographs of Basil Feilden. £ 5.00

Preston. Ships in Focus Publications. 2001. pp. 80. Illustrated in monochrome. Oblong 8vo. Paperback. Bright, clean copy. ISBN 1901703614

Reference: 70879

 
COLENO, Nadine. THE HERMES SCARF. £ 35.00

london. Thames and Hudson. 2010. pp. 304. Colourfully illustrated. 4to. D/W. Reprint. ISBN 9780500515181. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 77640

 
COLOGNI, Franco. CARTIER. The Tank Watch. £ 75.00

Flammarion. 2012. pp. 216. Illustrated in monochrome and colour. 4to. D/W.

Reference: 107570

 
CONRAD, Peter C. CANADIAN WARTIME PRISON ESCAPES. Courage & Daring Behind Enemy Lines. £ 6.00

Canada. Folklore Publishing. 2007. pp. 248. 8vo. Paperback. ISBN 9781894864640. A very good, clean copy.

Reference: 8922

 
CREDLAND, Arthur & Richard Greenwood. BAILEY AND LEETHAM. A Ships in Focus Fleet History. £ 5.00

Preston. Ships in Focus ublications. 2002. pp. 48. Ilustratd. Royal 8vo. Paperback. A bright, clean copy. ISBN 1901703436

Reference: 9281

 
DAVIDSON, A.S. MARINE ART & THE CLYDE. 100 Years of Sea, Sail & Steam. £ 20.00

Wirral. Jones-Sands Publishing. 2001. pp. 222. Well illustrate in colour and sepia. Super royal 8vo. D/W. Bright, clean copy. ISBN 0947764976

Reference: 14833

 
DEWITZ, Bodo von. (Editor). FACTS. Photography from the 19th and 20th Century. £ 16.00

Agfa collection in the Museum Ludwig Cologne. Cologne. Museum Ludwig and Steidl Publishers. 2006. pp. 325. Very well illustrated. 4to. Paperback. ISBN 3865212956. Exhibition catalogue, text in German and English. A very good, clean copy.

Reference: 65110

 
DORNAN, Peter. DIVING STATIONS. The Story of Captain George Hunt DSO, DSC, RN. One of the most successful Allied Submarine Captains in the Second World War. £ 6.00

Barnsley. Pen & Sword. 2010. pp. xviii, 173. Illustrated. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 9781848843219. Avery good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 11777

 
ERSKINE, Charles. TWENTY YEARS BEFORE THE MAST. With the more thrilling scenes and incidents while circumbanigating the globe under the command of the late Admiral Charles Wilkes 1838 - 1842. £ 10.00

Edited by Thomas Philbrick Chicago. R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company. The Lakeside Press. 2006. pp. liv, 394. Illustrated. Small 8vo. Green cloth, top edge gilt. No. 104 of the Lakeside Classics series. A very good, bright, clean copy still shrink wrapped.

Reference: 6767L

 
FERRAND, Franck. JACQUES GARCIA. Decorating in the French Style. £ 50.00

Paris. Flammarion. 2005. pp. 264. Very well illustrated. 4to. D/W. ISBN 9782080305077. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 9883

 
FLORES-VIANNA, Miguel. HAUTE BOHEMIANS. £ 45.00

New York & London. Vendome Press. 2017. pp. 312. Very well illustrated. Small folio. D/W. ISBN 9780865653399. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 24564

 
FOX, Celina. JOHN MINSHAW DESIGNS. £ 75.00

London. Frances Lincoln Ltd. 2009. pp. 206. Very well illustrated. 4to. Black cloth, faded around the edges of front board. ISBN 978 0711229778. A very good copy.

Reference: 297720

 
GAUDICHON, Bruno. WANDERLAND. £ 25.00

Drawings by Emmanuel Pierre. Arles. Actes Sud/Hermes. 2015. pp. (27). The pagination is uncut and folded into a continious pull out strip. Illustrated. Oblong 8vo. Laminated boards. A very good copy.

Reference: 70766

 
GREY, Stephen. OPERATION SNAKEBITE. £ 6.00

London. Viking. 2009. pp. xv, 352. Illustrated in colour. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 9780670917860. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 73500

 
GROSZ, P.M. ALBATROS C.V. Windsock Datafile 81. £ 12.00

Berkhamstead. Albatross Productions Ltd. 2000. pp. 36. lllustrated in colour and monochrome. Royal 8vo. Printed wrapper stapled as issued. A very good bright, clean copy. ISBN 1902207238

Reference: 16965

 
GUITAUT, Caroline de. FABERGE'S ANIMALS. A Royal Farm in Miniature. £ 15.00

London. Royal Collections Enterprise Ltd. (2010). pp.120. Well illustrated. 4to. D/W ISBN 9781905686124. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 12645

 
HAYNES, Jane & Juliet Miller. (EDitors). INCONCEIVABLE CONCEPTIONS. Psychological aspects of infertility and reproductive technology. £ 8.00

Hove & New York. Brunner-Routledge. 2003 pp. x, 229. 8vo. Paperback. Bright, clean copy. ISBN 1583911685

Reference: 26151

 
HERRMANN, Frank & Michael Allen (Editors). By Members of the Travellers Club. MORE TALES FROM THE TRAVELLERS. £ 12.00

Oxford. Michael Tomkinson Publishing. 2005. pp. xiii, 282. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 0905500741. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 17610

 
HINES, Colin. ART DECO LONDON. £ 5.50

Photography by Paul Riddle. London. Park House Press. 2003. pp. 60. Well illustrated in colour. 4to. Paperback. Bright, clean copy. ISBN 0954475100

Reference: 101690

 
HUTCHINGS, David F. PRIDE OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC. A Maritime Trilogy. £ 15.00

Settle. Waterfront. 2003. pp. 320. Well illustrated. Super royal 4to. D/W. Features Queen Mary; Queen Elizabeth; QE2. Abright, clean copy. ISBN 0946184674

Reference: 57933

 
IRVINE, Susan. VOGUE ON Cristobal Balenciaga. £ 20.00

London. Quadrille. 2013. pp. 160. Well illustrated. Small 4to. Laminated boards. ISBN 9781849493116. A very good clean copy without the wrapper band.

Reference: 61295

 
JACOBS, Peter. SETTING FRANCE ABLAZE. The SOE in France During WWII. £ 18.00

Barnsley. Pen & Sword. 2015. pp. xiii, 217. Illustrated. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 9781783463367. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 70240

 
JOHNSTON, Roy. PARISIAN ARCHITECTURE OF THE BELLE EPOQUE. £ 10.00

Photography by Steve Gorton. Chichester. Wiley-Academy. 2007. pp. 216. Well illustrated in colour. 4to. D/W. A very good bright, clean copy. ISBN 9780470015551

Reference: 29346

 
MACE, Martin & John Grehan. UNEARTHING CHURCHILL'S SECRET ARMY. The Official List of SOE Casualties and Their Stories. £ 6.00

Barnsley. Pen & Sword. 2012. pp. xi, 268. Illustrated. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 9781848847941. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 8374

 
MARTLAND, Peter. LORD HAW HAW. The English Voice of Nazi Germany. £ 16.00

Kew. The National Archives. 2003. pp. x, 309. Illustrated with photographs and facsimiles. 8vo. D/W. Bright, clean copy. ISBN 1903365171

Reference: 11885

 
MAXTONE-GRAHAM, John. QUEEN MARY 2. The Greatest Ocean Liner of Our Time. £ 6.00

Photographs by Harvey Lloyd; With contributions from Michael Verdure and Yves Guillotin. New York. Bulfinch Press. 2004. pp. 206. Well illustrated, mainly in colour. Super royal 8vo. D/W. A very good, bright copy. ISBN 0821228846 ADDITIONAL SHIPPING REQUIRED.

Reference: 70310

 
MEYER, Ulf. BAUHAUS-ARCHITEKTUR/BAUHAUS ARCHITECTURE 1919 - 1933. £ 60.00

Fotografie und Konzept/Photography and Concept Hans Engels. Munchen, London, New York. Prestel. 2001. pp.144. Beautifully illustrated, mainly in colour. Royal 4to. D/W. Text in German & English. A very good bright, clean copy. ISBN 3791325353

Reference: 128320

 
MILLER, David. SPECIAL FORCES OPERATIONS IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA 1941 - 1945. Minerva, Baldhead and Longshanks/Creek. £ 6.00

Barnsley. Pen & Sword. 2015. pp. xx, 220. Illustrated. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 9781783400638. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 79290

 
MOTLEY, Will. FROM POEMS TO PIGLETS. Variety in Chinese Export Porcelain. £ 16.00

Asian Art in London 9th - 17th November 2000. London. Cohen & Cohen. 2000. pp. 40. Illustrated in colour with photographs by Gerry Clist. Royal 8vo. D/W. A Catalogue.

Reference: 70920

 
MOTLEY, Will. SOLDIER SOLDIER. £ 16.00

Asian Art in London 6th - 14th November 2003. London. Cohen & Cohen. 2003. pp. 64. Illustrated in colour with photographs by Paul Freeman. Royal 8vo. D/W. A Catalogue.

Reference: 7436

 
NATER, Jenny. SECRET DUTIES OF A SIGNALS INTERCEPTOR. Working with Bletchley Park, the SDS and the OSS or A Long Time to Hope. £ 6.00

Barnsley. Pen & Sword. 2016. pp. xiii, 207. Illustrated. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 9781473887121. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 90300

 
NEWALL, Peter. MAURETANIA. Triumph and Resurrection. £ 16.00

Preston. Ships in Focus Publications. 2006. pp. 136. Well illustrated. Royal 8vo. Paperback. Bright, clean copy. ISBN 1901703533

Reference: 43823

 
NICHOLSON, Helen. THE KNIGHTS HOSPITALLER. £ 10.00

Woodbridge. The Boydell Press. 2001. pp. xii,180. 9 colour illustrations and12 black and white. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 0851158455. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 83900

 
NYE, John V.C. WAR, WINE AND TAXES. The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade 1689 - 1900. £ 20.00

Princeton University Press. 2007. pp. xvii, 174. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 9780691129174. With the bookplate of Simon Richard Smallwood. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 71951

 
PATTERSON, Brian. THE ROYAL NAVY AT PORTSMOUTH SINCE 1900. £ 5.00

Liskeard. Maritime Books. 2005. pp. 152. Illustrated in monochrome. Oblong 8vo. D/W. Bright, clean copy. ISBN 1904459129

Reference: 74710

 
PETER, Bruce, Philip Dawson & Ian Johnston. QE2. Britain's Greatest Liner. £ 8.00

With foreword by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. Lily Publications on behalf of Ferry Publications. 2008. pp. 216. Illustrated in colour & monochrome. Royal 8vo. D/W. A very good bright, clean copy. ISBN 9781906608002

Reference: 28773

 
PHILLIPS, Simon. RONALD PHILLIPS. Fine Antique English Furniture. £ 25.00

London. Ronald Phillips Ltd. 2018. pp. 256. Very well illustrated in colour. 4to. D/W. Catalogue. Very good, bright clean copy.

Reference: 70260

 
POLANO, Sergio. HENDRIK PETRUS BERLAGE. £ 12.00

With essays by Giovanni Fanelli, Jan de Heer, Vincent van Rossem. Translated by Marie-Helene Agueros & Mayta Munson. Milan. Electra Architecture. 2002. pp. 267. 426 illustrations in colour & monochrome. Royal 4to. Paperback. A very good bright, clean copy. 1904313116

Reference: 13247

 
POWDRILL, Ernest. IN THE FACE OF THE ENEMY. A Battery Sergeant Major in Action in the Second World War. £ 8.00

Barnsley. Pen & Sword. 2008. pp. 160. Illustrated. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 184415850. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 21888

 
PRICE, Nicholas & Dr Robert Fountain. THE ENGRAVED WORK OF GEORGE STUBBS 1724 - 1806. £ 16.00

Newmarket. British Sporting Arts Trust. 2005. pp. 81. Illustrated. Small 4to. Paperback. Catalogie of an exhibition at Bonhams, New Bond St, London and the Ferens Art Gallery, Hull. A very good clean copy.

Reference: 43945

 
RADFORD, Charlie & Francis Mackay. SAS TROOPER. Charlie Radford's Operations in Enemy Occupied France and Italy. £ 6.00

Barnsley. Pen & Sword. 2011. pp. xiii, 198. Illustrated. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 1848843992. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 7162

 
REES, John. THE LEVELLER REVOLUTION. Radical Political Organisation in England, 1640 - 1650. £ 6.00

London & New York. Verso. 2016. pp. xxi, 490. 2 plans. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 9781784783884. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 34790

 
RENAUD, Clarisse. L'ABBAYE CISTERCIENNE en France. £ 10.00

Moisenay. Editions Gaud. 2002. pp. 128. Well illustrated in colour. 4to. Paperback. A very good, bright, clean copy. ISBN 2840800969

Reference: 9932

 
SAMET, Janie. CHAUMET. £ 12.00

Paris. Editions Assouline. 2000. pp. 80. Well illustrated. 8vo. Black cloth. A good, clean copy.

Reference: 30471

 
SCARISBRICK, Diana. TIMELESS TIARAS. Chaumet from 1804 to the Present. £ 35.00

New York. Assouline. 2002. pp. 240. Very well illustrated. 8vo. Grey boards. ISBN 284323347X. A very good, clean copy.

Reference: 7472

 
SCHLESINGER, Peter. CHECKERED PAST. A Visual Diary of the'60s and '70s. £ 12.00

Foreword by Manolo Blahnik. New York. Vendome. 2003. pp. 128. Very well illustrated in colour. 8vo. Lamintaed boards. ISBN 0865652295. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 13919

 
SILVA, Nuno Vassallo e et al. CARTIER 1899 - 1949. The Journey of a Style. £ 20.00

Lisbon. Calouste Gulbenkian. 2007. pp. 229. Very well illustrated. 4to. Black cloth, slightly faded on front board. Exhibition catalogue. ISBN 9788861300262. A good copy.

Reference: 8484

 
SOUTHBY-TAILYOUR, Ewen. HELMAND, AFGHANISTAN 3 COMMANDO BRIGADE. £ 6.00

Ebury Press. 2008. pp. xxvii, 292. Illustrated in colour. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 9780091926953. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 97591

 
STREATFEILD, Richard. HONOURABLE WARRIORS. Fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. A Front-Line Account of the British Army's Battle for Helmund. £ 6.00

Barnsley. Pen & Sword. 2014. pp. (x), 219. Illustrated in colour. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 9781783462278. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 26705

 
SYNGE, Lanto. TELLING TALES. Anecdotes of family, antique dealing on Bond Street and collecting textiles. £ 20.00

Published by the Author . 2010. pp. (vi), 176. 8vo. D/W. On recto of title page 'This is number ninety of a small limited edition for Rupert'. With a letter from the author dated 25th February 2011 lossely enclosed.

Reference: 198420

 
THOMPSON, Michael. CLOISTER, ABBOT & PRECINCT in Medieval Monasteries. £ 6.00

Stroud. Tempus Publishing Ltd. 2001. pp. 160. 70 illustrations. 8vo. Paperback. A very good bright, clean copy. ISBN 0752419366

Reference: 30145

 
THORNTON, Robert. THE TEMPLE OF FLORA. (Picturesque botanical plates, illustrative of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus.) With Commentary by Stephen Harris. £ 600.00

London. The Folio Society. 2008. pp. 232; 117. 9 preliminary monochrome plates, 5 preliminary colour plates and 29 flower illustrations, plus 1 of 2 loose colour flower plates (lacking Tulips). Folio. Quarter goatskin with cloth boards, the Commentary is cloth. All in a Solander box. This is No. 426 of an edition of 1980 which 'as of June 2011, only 600 of the original limitation of 1,980 copies were been bound in book form ; the balance have been issued as portfolios of plates and are unnumbered. Quarter-bound in Nigerian goatskin, cloth sides'. according to the Natural History Museum Library. The books are complete in themselves. A very good copy. ADDITIONAL POSTAGE REQUIRED

Reference: 14363

 
THUMIM, Janet. (Editor). SMALL SCREEN, BIG IDEAS. Television in the 1950s. £ 3.00

London. I.B. Tauris. 2002. pp. ix, 262. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback.

Reference: 75870

 
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Reference: 0000

 
WEBSTER, Mary. JOHAN ZOFFANY 1733 - 1810. £ 75.00

New Haven & London. Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. 2011. pp. xii, 708. Beautifully illustrated. 4to. D/W. ISBN 9780300162783.Inscription to previous owner on half title otherwsie a very clean, bright copy. ADDITIONAL SHIPPING REQUIRED

Reference: 13971

 
WILTSHIRE, Andrew. BRISTOL CHANNEL SHIPPING MEMORIES. £ 5.00

Bristol. Mernard McCall. 2006. pp. 80. Well illustrated in colour. Oblong 8vo. Laminated boards. A very good, bright, clean copy. ISBN 1902953258

Reference: 81811

 
WIPER, Steve. GERMAN S-BOATS. £ 6.00

London. Chatham Publishing. 2006. pp. 64. Well illustrated in colour and monochrome. Royal 8vo. Paperback. ShipCraft 6. A bright, clean copy. ISBN 186176278x

Reference: 14005

 
WITTHOFT, Hans Jurgen. TRADITION AND PROGRESS. 125 YEARS BLOHN + VOSS. £ 20.00

Translated by Christopher Watson & Peter Alexander. Hamburg. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH. 2002. pp. viii, 590. Well illustrated in colour and monochrome. Small folio. D/W. English language edition. Bright, clean copy. ISBN 3782208587 ADDITIONAL SHIPPING REQUIRED.

Reference: 9566

 
 
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