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THE HITLER ALBUMS: MUSSOLINI'S STATE VISIT TO GERMANY SEPTEMBER 25-29 1937
Written by Roger James Bender; David F. Fasold.
Stock no. 1827165
Published by R. James Bender. 1st 1970. Very good condition.

Prepare to experience the most dynamic spectacle of power ever witnessed in the Third Reich... in its parades, maneuvers, tours and demonstrations, just as the Duce did... Large format. Brown cloth boards, light brown titles and vignettes to front. B/w photos throughout. ISBN: 0912138041. Titles and vignettes faded to spine & front board maaking the title difficult to read. Corners of boards lightly rubbed. Contents fine.

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VENICE AND ITS LAGOON
Written by Giulio Lorenzetti.
Stock no. 1827118
Published by Edizioni Lint Trieste. 1st thus 1975. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Reprint from the 1961 edition. Small format. Cream cloth boards, blue titles and black illustration to front. B/w photos. Folding maps. Text block a little grubby. Tiny crease to tip of top corners, light diagonal crease to top corner of prelims. Else a clean copy. Blue dustwrapper is lightly scuffed and has a biro mark crossing out to rear panel (price?).

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THE WORLD OF THE FLORENTINE RENAISSANCE ARTIST
Written by Martin Wackernagel; Alison Luchs.
Stock no. 1824405
Published by Princeton University Press. 1st 1981. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Projects and Patrons, Workshop and Art Market. A pioneering study of Florentine art that renconstructed its physical, social, economic, and cultural context from about 1420 to 1530. Translated by Alison Luchs. Blue cloth boards, Light blue title block and white title to spine. A clean copy in blue dustwrapper which is faded at spine, rubbed at edges and a little scuffed to rear panel.

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THE VILLA IN THE LIFE OF RENAISSANCE ROME
Written by David R. Coffin.
Stock no. 2139044
Published by Princeton University Press. Circa 1988. Very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. B/w photos, diagrams and illustrations. ISBN: 0691002797. Spine is creased and faded, with a few nicks to top and tail. Some corner creases. Browning and marks to outer page edges.

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NAPLES
Written by Sybil Fitzgerald. Illustrated by Augustine Fitzgerald.
Stock no. 2137138
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1st 1904. Almost very good condition.

Red pictorial cloth, gilt titles to spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. 80 tissue-guarded colour plates. A & C Black Colour Book 20 Shilling series. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; darkening to spine. Crease to bottom corner on rear cover. Joints are a little cracked. Some browning and foxing. Smal, patch surface paper damage to front endpaper. Stains to plate margins and lower textblock.

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THE STONES OF ITALY
Written by C.T.G. Formilli. Illustrated by C.T.G. Formilli.
Stock no. 2137128
Published by A. & C. Black. 1927. Almost very good condition.

Grey pictorial cloth. Gilt title to spine. 32 colour plates. A. & C. Black Colour Book. Bumping to cover edges and corners. Some grubby marks. Large fox spots throughout. All plates present.

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THE MILITARY LEADERSHIP OF MATILDA OF CANOSSA 1046-1115
Written by David J. Hay.
Stock no. 1823482
Published by Manchester University Press. 1st 2008. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Gender in History series. An account of the entire 40-year military career of one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages. Challenging the boundaries between military and gender history, it explains how one famous noblewoman rose to the defence of the reforming papacy, defeated the Holy Roman Emperor and turned the tide of the first great war between Church and state. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 9780719073588.

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MERCENARIES AND THEIR MASTERS: WARFARE IN RENAISSANCE ITALY
Written by Michael Mallett.
Stock no. 1822242
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1974. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Concentrating mainly on fifteenth century, a period when standing armies emerged in Italy and when the 'modern' trends were just as discernible here as elsewhere in Europe. Also looking back to the middle ages and the fourteenth century and then forward to the Italian Wars (1494-1530) when foreign armies disputed the European balance of power on Italian soil. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0370105028. Large bookplate to front pastedown. Top edge of text block lightly faded. Contents clean. Blue dustwrapper is browned to spine and top edge, slightly grubby.

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ITALIAN RENAISSANCE STUDIES
Written by E.F. Jacob.
Stock no. 1822187
Published by Faber & Faber. 1966. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Edited by E.F. Jacob. A cross-section of Italian civilization in the later fifteenth century. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. Second impression. Large bookplate to front pastedown. Top edge of text block browned. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine , lightly browned at top rear edge, couple of minor stains to spine and top & tail of spine lightly chipped.

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THE LOST ARMOURY OF THE GONZAGAS
Written by James G. Mann.
Stock no. 1819728
Published by Ken Trotman Publishing. 1st thus 2005. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Facsimile reprint. Originally published in the Archaeological Journal Volume XCV for 1938, and volume C for 1945. White cardwraps. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 1905074107.

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LIONARDO SALVIATI: A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY
Written by Peter M. Brown.
Stock no. 1818857
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1974. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Lionardo Salviati was a major figure in the culture of the late sixteenth century in Florence, and his career is a good indicator of the intellectual and political climate of the age of the Medici Grand Dukes. Dark grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w frontis. ISBN: 0198155239. Price-cut dustwrapper is faded to spine, lightly scuffed, and has a small closed tear to top front panel edge.

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THE CULT OF THE DUCE: MUSSOLINI AND THE ITALIANS
Written by Stephen Gundle; Christopher Duggan; Giuliana Pieri.
Stock no. 1818767
Published by Manchester University Press. 1st 2013. Slightly better than very good condition.

Exploring systematically the personality cult of the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. The factors which informed the cult and its many manifestations in the visual arts, architecture, political spectacle and the media. Matt pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 9780719088964. Boards lightly scuffed. Contents fine.

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