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Collection de la Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian; Arts Plastiques Francais de Watteau a Renoir.

Porto: Musee National de Soires dos Reis, 1964. First edition (softcover). 8vo, c. 200pp. Illustrated in b&w and colour. Original printed card wrappers. This copy is in very good condition.

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Book number: 20640

Catalogue: 2

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Collection Jean Albou, Itineraire d'un Passione, photographie de Ronis a Mapplethorpe, Paris, Hotel Dassault, Mercredi 30 Janvier 2008.

Briest: Artcurial, 2008. Catalogue of an auction held in Paris on 30th January 2008 (softcover). 4to (30cm x 22cm), c. 80pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black & white. Original card wrappers, dustwrapper. The book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is lightly rubbed. Contains a total of 110 lots. Text in French.

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Book number: 31835

Catalogue: 2

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Collection Jean Albou, Itineraire d'un Passione, art contemporain de Cesar a Chen Zhen, Paris, Hotel Dassault, Mardi 29 & Mercredi 30 Janvier 2008.

Briest: Artcurial, 2008. Catalogue of an auction held in Paris on 29th and 30th January 2008 (softcover). 4to (30cm x 22cm), c. 120pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black & white. Original card wrappers, dustwrapper. The book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is lightly rubbed. Contains a total of 123 lots. Text in French.

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Book number: 31836

Catalogue: 2

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Collection de M le Marquis de Varennes : catalogue des dessins anciens, gouaches importantes par N Lawrence, gravures anciennes et tableaux anciens, done la Vente aura lieu a Paris le Vendredi 12 Mai 1922, Hotel Drouot, Salle no 6, a 2 heures.

Paris: M F Lair-Dubreuil & M Edouard Pape, 1922. Catalogue of an auction held in Paris on 12 May 1922 (softcover). 8vo (25cm x 18cm), 34pp. Several black & white plates. Orignal printed grey card wrappers. The staples are rusted, the covers are detached from the text block, and the preliminary pages are foxed. Overall, this copy is just about in good condition. Text in French.

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Book number: 41538

Catalogue: 4

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A Collection of Important Furniture, the property of Mr Edward Sarofim, London, Thursday 16 November 1995.

London: Christie's, 1995. Catalogue of an auction held in London in 1995 (softcover). 4to (27cm by 21cm), 128pp. Illustrated throughout, mainly in colour. Original laminated card wrappers. This copy is in very good condition.

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Book number: 43254

Catalogue: 2

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The Collection of Otto Schafer, part II : Parisian Books.

London: Sotheby's, 1995. Catalogue of an auction held at Sotheby's in London on Tuesday June 27, 1995 (softcover). 4to (27cm by 21cm), c. 400pp. Illustrated throughout in b&w and colour. Original laminated card wrappers. This book is in very good condition. A printed list of sale results is loosely inserted. This is part 2 of the sale (Parisian Books).

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Book number: 53460

Catalogue: 2

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Collection de monsieur et madame Luigi Anton Laura : Important Mobilier, Objets d'Art et Porcelaines de Chine : Paris, Sotheby's, Mercredi 27 Juin 2001.

Paris: Sotheby's, 2001. Catalogue of an auction held at Sotheby's in Paris on Wednesday 27 June 2001 (hardback). 4to (28cm x 22cm), 336pp. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original laminated boards, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition (some light spotting to the rear panel of the dustwrapper). Text in French.

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Book number: 55544

Catalogue: 2

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Come to Guernsey; guide to the states of Guernsey, Alderney and Sark.

London: County Associations Ltd, nd [c. 1950]. Third edition (softcover). 8vo, 56pp. Text illustrations. Original card wrappers. Wrappers rubbed, else this book is in good to very good condition.

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Book number: 15446

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Coming to Light : Birmingham's Photographic Collections.

Birmingham Libraries and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 1998. First edition (softcover). 8vo (25cm by 20cm), 177pp. Illustrated throughout. Original laminated card wrappers. This book is in very good condition. ISBN 0709302282

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Book number: 61663

Catalogue: 2

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Commercium et Artificium in antiqua Europa : Handel und Handwerk im alten Europa (Commerce and crafts in ancient Europe).

Hamburg: Berendsohn, no date [c. 1980]. No edition stated (hardback). 8vo (26cm by 19cm), 183pp. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original brown cloth, gilt titling to the spine, brown card slipcase. The book is in very good condition; the slipcase is a little scuffed. The text is in several languages, including German, English and French.

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Book number: 71096

Catalogue: 2

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A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures [Smith's revised Cruden]

London: James Blackwood & co, no date [c. 1879]. No edition stated (hardback). 8vo (24cm by 16cm), iv, 824pp. Original green cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. There is some rubbing and scuffing of the binding, the inner hinges are tender, an ownership inscription (dated 1879), and the preliminary pages are foxed; overall, this book is just about in good condition.

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Book number: 65453

Catalogue: 4

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The comprehensive dictionary of biography; embracing a series of original memoirs of the most distinguished persons of all countries, living and dead.

Glasgow: William Collins, 1861. No edition stated (hardback). 8vo, vii, 911pp, 70pp. Frontispiece, text illustrations. Half black morocco, gilt titling to the spine, all edges gilt. Edges of boards lightly rubbed, light foxing of the preliminary pages. Overall, this copy is in good to very good condition.

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Book number: 17045

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The Congregationalist, volume XI (1882).

London: The Congregationalist, 1882. The 12 issues of "The Congregationalist" magazine for the year 1882, bound together in one hardback volume. 8vo (22cm by 16cm), 1048pp. 12 portrait plates (from photographs). Half black morocco, purple cloth boards, gilt titling to the spine, marbled page edges. Bindling lightly rubbed, preliminary pages foxed. Overall, this copy is in good to very good condition.

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Book number: 31633

Catalogue: 3

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The Conquerors from Asia.

Hong Kong: Opera Gallery, 2007. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Opera Gallery in Hong Kong in 2007 (softcover). 4to (27cm by 22cm), 175pp. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original textured printed card wrappers. Light rubbing to the extremities of the covers, else this copy is in very good condition. An invitation to the first night of the exhibition is loosely inserted.

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Book number: 32425

Catalogue: 2

[Holger F Struers]:

The Construction of Laboratory Apparatus for Schools; workshop designs with secifications and instructions, series I, Elementary (la construction d'appareils de laboratoire a usage scolaire, schemas de montage avec specifications et instructions).

Paris: UNESCO, 1954. First edition (hardback). A portfolio (measuring 42cm by 30cm), containing about 100 folding sheets (each sheet folds out into 6 pages), plus a title sheet and a 16-page introductory booklet, all housed in a blue cloth folder. The folder itself is in worn condition (rubbed and scuffed with loss to one flap); the contents are generally in very good condition, but please note that this copy was formerly in a reference library, and there is a discreet blindstamp to one corner of each sheet. The text on the folding sheets is in both English and French; the booklet is in English only. Each sheet includes technical drawings. This portfolio was prepared for Unesco by H Struers Chemiske Laboratorium of Copenhagen.

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Book number: 33605

Catalogue: 4