Guidebook to the traditional houses, farm buildings and their interiors as exhibited at the Hungarian Open Air Museum at Szentendre.  Paperback.  64 pages.  Colour photos and architectural drawings.  Fold-out site plan.  Text in English.  Small crease to back cover,

Superbly produced English-language catalogue of the collections of France's premier museum of archaeology with every prehistoric period represented by artefacts of the first order, each illustrated in excellent colour photographs.  Probably the finest examples of Palaeolithic art and culture

Illustrated pocket guide to the collections of the Ceramic Museum in Barcelona featuring examples from the Islamic pottery of the early medieval period to the highly decorated tiles, plates and jars of the C17th and C18th.  Paperback.  116 pages.  Many illustrations in colour and b

Provides an accessible introduction to the study of Shropshire's place-names and the ways in which they contribute to our understanding of the past.  Place-names throw light on the county's past inhabitants, the language they spoke, and the ways in which they viewed, cared for and exploited

Born in Constantinople in 1611 Ewlijā Çelebi was one of the world’s greatest travellers and recorded his journeys in a monumental ten volume work entitled Seyahatname (Book of Travels) and memorably inscribed Qur'anic verses on buildings he visited, many of which are still extant.  He was a

This journal issue includes papers on the rushcarts of the North-West England, another on the traditional methods of seaweed collecting in Ireland, and one on the longhouses of Donegal.  Paperback.  112 pages.  New condition.  Cat No 2895

Large impressive survey of the fine ornamental C19th and early C20th residential doorways of Istanbul.  Each doorway is shown in a colour or b&w left-hand plate opposite a detailed architectural drawing as the right-hand plate.   Ninety-eight doors are illustrated.  Large

Illustrated guide to the medieval castle, its architecture and the museum that it houses.  Paperback.  36 pages.  Text in English, Finnish and Swedish.  Very good condition.  Cat No 2879

Handsome illustrated guide to the Palaeolithic rock art of the Côa Valley in North-East Portugal.  Many excellent colour photographs of the pictograms and interpretive text.  Location map and bibliography.  Text in French (not Portuguese).  Tall paperback.  60 pages.&nbsp

This book reports on an excavation undertaken in Northern Iran in 1957 on the little known site of Barlekin from the third millennium BC.  Description of the site and its pottery, much of which is held by the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, is followed by the author's theories on cultural diffusion