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Books Received, Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 25, Issue 1, March 2013, Page 147, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fht005
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Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen, Michael Harbsmeier and Christopher J. Ries, Scientists and Scholars in the Field. Studies in the History of Fieldwork and Expeditions. Aarhus, Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2012. isbn 978-87-7124-014-6. 476 pp., 18 b. & w. illus. £50.
Giuseppe Eskenazi and Hajni Elias, A Dealer’s Hand. The Chinese Art World through the Eyes of Giuseppe Eskenazi. London, Scala Publishers, 2012. isbn 978-1-85759-801-8. 359 pp., 600 col. images. £60.
D Fairchild Ruggles, Islamic Art and Visual Culture. An Anthology of Sources. Oxford, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2011. isbn 978-1-4051-5402-4. 186 pp., £19.99.
Simon Winchester, SKULLS. An Exploration of Alan Dudley’s Curious Collection. New York, Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2012. isbn 978-1-57912-912-5. 240 pp., 500 col. illus. £19.95.
Alison McQueen, Empress Eugénie and the Arts. Politics and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century, Farnham, Ashgate, 2011. isbn 978-1-4094-0585-6. 368 pp., 12 col. illus., 145 b. & w. illus. £70.
Inge Reist and José Luis Colomer (eds) Collecting Spanish Art: Spain’s Golden Age and America’s Gilded Age. New York, The Frick Collection, 2012. isbn 978-0-912114-58-3. 396 pp., 114 col. illus., 56 b. & w. illus. $90.