Badel, Christophe and Settipani, Christian. (Editors).

LES STRATÉGIES FAMILIALES DANS L’ANTIQUITÉ TARDIVE. Actes du colloque organisé par le C.N.R.S. USR 710 "l’Année épigraphique" tenu à la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme les 5-7 février 2009.

De Boccard, Paris, 2012. Larg 8vo. xx + 472pp. + [ii]. French text. Very good in original black lettered white laminated limp card wrapps.
¶ De l’Archéologie à l’Histoire.

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Book number: 288223

Catalogue: HISTORY: HERALDRY

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Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Lord.

AFRICAN ADVENTURES.

C. Arthur Pearson, N.d. c.[1936]. 1st Ed. 191pp. Map, ills. E.ps. lightly browned, price clipped d/w. with loss.

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Book number: 285319

Catalogue: NAVAL AND MILITARY: BOER WAR

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(Badiou). Roffe, Jon.

BADIOU’S DELEUZE.

McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012. 1st US Ed. x + 196pp. E.ps. very lightly browned, good in gilt lettered black cloth.

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Book number: 285571

Catalogue: PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY: PHILOSOPHY

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Badoglio, Pietro.

THE WAR IN ABYSSINIA. With a Foreword by Benito Mussolini.

Methuen Publishers, 1937. 1st English Ed. Royal 8vo. [xvi] + 208pp. 6 facsimile documents, 15 gravure ills. including 6 folding and 9 folding maps in pocket at rear. Front f.e.p. lightly browned and spotted, title page lightly spotted, edges of leaves sl. spotted and occasionally intruding onto inner margins, lib. ink stamp to top and bottom edges of leaves, some occasional thumbing, original gilt lettered brick cloth, soiled, corners and head and tail of spine sl. bumped.

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Book number: 285136

Catalogue: NAVAL AND MILITARY: GENERAL MILITARY

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Badulescu, Enrique.

SUEÑOS.

daab gmbh, Köln, 2008. 1st Ed. Landscape 4to. Unpaginated. Numerous colour ills. English/German/Spanish/French/Italian text. Good in d/w.
¶ ‘The book is about my dreams, my travels and growing up in Mexico, where color is an everyday experience. ...’

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Book number: 280791

Catalogue: ART: PHOTOGRAPHY

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Baedeker, Karl.

EGYPT 1929.

David & Charles, Newton Abbot/Hippocrene Books Inc., New York, 1984. Facsimile Reprint of 1929 8th Revised Ed. ccviii + 495pp. + [iii]. 106 maps and plans including several folding, 56 woodcuts. Bookplate, sl. chipped d/w. faded to spine.

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Book number: 280300

Catalogue: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL: AFRICA

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Baedeker, Karl.

SWITZERLAND and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol. Handbook for Travellers.

Leipzig ..., 1913. 25th Ed. xl + 604pp. 77 maps and 21 plans including many colour/folding, 14 panoramas. Several maps protruding sl. to fore-edge and sl. chipped, light browning, original bright gilt lettered cloth.

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Catalogue: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL: EUROPE

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Bagley, Robert W; Rawson, Jessica and So, Jenny F.

ANCIENT CHINESE BRONZES IN THE ARTHUR M. SACKLER COLLECTIONS. 1. Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections. 2. Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections (in 2 parts). 3. Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections.

Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Washington, D.C./Arthur M. Sackler Museum/Harvard University, Massachusetts/Harvard University Press, 1987-95. 1st Eds. 3 vols. in 4. Folio. 599pp. + [i] + 776pp. + 524pp. Profusely illus. throughout with colour and b/w. photos., maps, figures. Dec. e.ps., head of spine to vol. 2 part 2 sl. bumped, vols. 1 and 3 very good in d/ws., vol. 2 in 2 parts in original gilt lettered buckram together in coloured pictorial slipcase.

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Book number: 288050

Catalogue: ART: PRECIOUS METALS

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Bagrow, Leo.

A HISTORY OF RUSSIAN CARTOGRAPHY Up to 1600; Up to 1800. Edited by Henry W. Castner.

Walker Press Wolfe Island Ontario, 1975. 1st Ed. 2 vols. 4to. xiv + 312pp. + xv + 140pp. Numerous maps. Some light browning, with the signature of Ann Savours Shirley, original pictorial green cloth.

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Book number: 281362

Catalogue: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL: RUSSIA

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(Baird). Hook, Theodore.

THE LIFE OF GENERAL, THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR DAVID BAIRD.

Richard Bentley, 1833. New Ed. Revised and Corrected. 2 vols. xii + 416pp. + viii + 412pp. Port. frontis. (foxed), 2 folding maps, plan. Some pages clumsily opened, rebound in modern morocco with gilt ruling to edges of boards, gilt ruled raised bands with gilt lettered labels to spine.
¶ General Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet (1757–1829). The Second-Fourth Anglo-Mysore Wars, French Revolutionary Wars, the Peninsular War.

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Book number: 259250

Catalogue: NAVAL AND MILITARY: GENERAL MILITARY

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Baker, Samuel White.

THE ALBERT N’YANZA, Great Basin of the Nile, And Explorations of the Nile Sources.

Macmillan and Co., 1866. 1st Ed. 2 vols. xxx + 395pp. + ix + 384pp. Port. frontis., tinted litho. frontis., 2 maps including 1 folding, 12 plates (one not listed), many ills. Some light browning, marbled e.ps. and edges, contemporary half calf with marbled boards, extremities rubbed, dec. gilt ruling and filleting to spines with (modern) gilt lettered labels, spines rubbed with loss across tail of spine of vol. 1.
¶ The discovery of the Albert N'Yanza was the most remarkable feat accomplished in Baker's adventurous career; the work of Speke and Grant was completed and the source of the Nile freed from mystery. D.N.B.

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Baker, Thomas.

HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE OF ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST, CAMBRIDGE. Edited for the Syndics of the University Press by John E.B. Mayor.

CUP, 1869. 1st Ed. 2 vols. lx + 554pp. + xxvi index + xxxii + ([555]-1235)pp. + [ii]. Light browning, original gilt lettered cloth, some minor rubbing to extremities.

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Book number: 276881

Catalogue: PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY: EDUCATION

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Baker, Naomi.

PLAIN UGLY. The unattractive body in early modern culture.

Manchester University Press, 2010. 1st Ed. [x] + 260pp. 22 b/w. ills. Very good in d/w.

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Book number: 287643

Catalogue: ART: GENERAL ART REFERENCE

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Baker, Arthur and Herbert.

PLAS MAWR Conway, N. Wales. Illustrated and Described by ...

Printed and Published (for the authors) by Farmer & Sons ..., 1888. 1st Ed. Large 4to. 62pp. 23 plates. With 3pp. Subscribers. Light browning, original gilt lettered red cloth, gilt armorial device to upper board, some darkening and fraying, some soiling, recased.
¶ Limited to 200 Copies. Plas Mawr (English: Great Hall), architecturally, Plas Mawr is almost unchanged from the 16th century, and the historian Rick Turner considers the house to be ‘the finest surviving town house of the Elizabethan era’.

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Book number: 281560

Catalogue: ART: BRITISH ARCHITECTURE

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Balázs, Béla.

DER SICHTBARE MENSCH FILM-DRAMATURGIE.

Wilhelm Knapp Halle (Saale), N.d. c.[1926]. 2nd Ed. Large 8vo. 167pp. + [ii]. German text. From the Library of C.A. and Anthony Lejeune, some browning, original cloth, soiled, spine dulled.
¶ Inscribed to C[aroline] A. L[ejeune]. With her pencil marginalia and notes loosely inserted.

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Book number: 271746

Catalogue: ART: PERFORMING ARTS

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