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Region: Middle East

A large album of excellent colour photographs of Petra, by a Jordanian photographer, often featuring the lesser known ruins in the immediate surroundings.

Region: China/Japan/Korea

A miniature book illustrating and describing Chinese date marks, seal marks, and Buddhist and Taoist emblems, with an additional dynastic chronology.  Published as a promotional giveaway during the 1936 Chinese Art Exhibition at the Royal Academy, this book is now a scarce item.

Region: Italy

A detailed record of excavations as observed by English historian and poet, St Clair Baddeley, who travelled extensively across Italy in the company of local archaeologists.  Includes 45 b&w photographs and a large fold-out site plan.  Hardback 115 pages.

Period: Medieval

A detailed description of those who led a partly or wholly peripatetic life during the C14th - Pedlars, Minstrels, Itinerants, Carters, Herbalists, Preachers, Pardoners, Pilgrims and Outlaws - and the roads, bridges, inns and sanctuary churches they might encounter.

Region: Egypt

A slightly eccentric compendium of miscellaneous essays relating to the archaeology, religions, dwellings, and customs of widely differing cultures – the Prehistoric (Palaeolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age); the ancient Egyptians; the Assyrians; the Phoenicians; the Persians; and historic India an

Region: Middle East

A review of the landmark excavations and discoveries made during the latter half of the C19th in the Middle East and Mesopotamia and an attempt to link them to accounts found in the Old Testament.

Region: Britain - London

A complete history of the round C12th Templar church in the London Inns of Court.  Hardback. 152 pages, a tissue-guarded frontispiece, 12 pages of plates, and a folding plan.

Region: Britain

An historical (and protestant polemic) outlining the earliest aspects of Christian worship and ministry in Great Britain sketching the establishment of the earliest monasteries, often on islands, and the differences between the Celtic church and the church of Rome prior to the resolutions of Coun

Theory & Practice: Technique

An early and comprehensive manual for those hoping to draw-up a family tree or compile a parish history by using – pipe rolls; land sales; legal proceedings; state papers; ecclesiastical records; parish registers; wills; manorial records; grants of privileges and tithes.

Theory & Practice: Art History

An early and definitive history  of C16th majolica pottery, focussing primarily on the decorative items from Italy, but with additional detail on the influence of early Persian faience.  79 excellent engravings of the finer examples accompany the German text.  200 pages.