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Lines of Beauty
Titian: His Life
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Trouble At The Gates
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A Familiar World
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Patricia Fara
You Do the Math
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Trial by Sword
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Blair Worden
Authority Figure
The Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes – Leviathan Vol 1: Introduction; Vols 2 & 3: The English & Latin Texts
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Lisa Jardine
Tricks of the Eye
Mr Collier’s Letter Racks: A Tale of Art & Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age
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Tim Blanning
Patriot Frames
The Nation Made Real: Art and National Identity in Western Europe, 1600–1850
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John Cooper
Power Player
The King’s Henchman: Henry Jermyn – Stuart Spymaster and Architect of the British Empire
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Jerry Brotton
Pictures of Thought
The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes
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Showing Her Metal
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Jerry Brotton
Roads to Xanadu
Mr Selden’s Map of China: The Spice Trade, a Lost Chart and the South China Sea
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John Adamson
Scots at the Top
Rebellion: Britain’s First Stuart Kings, 1567–1642
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Kabuki Nights
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By G G Rowley
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And Now for News of Fresh Disaster
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John Guy
Marriages of Inconvenience
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Anne Somerset
Years of Magical Thinking
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Tim Harris
Picturing Power
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Sale of the Century
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David Gelber
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