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Period: Medieval

Lavish guide to the Stibbert Museum´s extensive collection of armour dating from the C15th onwards with particular reference to the cavalcade room featuring mounted knights and horse armour.   Large format paperback.  78 pages.  Many excellent colour photographs.  Bibliog

Region: India/Pakistan/Sri Lanka

Attractive large format colour guide to the Taxila monuments and stupas, their history within the context of the spread of Buddhism across Gandhara into present day Pakistan.  Many excellent colour illustrations of sites, buildings, sculpture and coins.  Paperback.  32 pages. 

Region: China/Japan/Korea

The Chinese translation and adaptation of early C20th texts  by explorer and archaeologist Albert von Le Coq describing the wall paintings discovered and collected by him in Turfan (now in present-day Xinjiang province) along the route of the Northern Silk Road.  Large format paperback.

Region: Egypt

Examines the evidence that ancient Egyptians, contrary to some beliefs, were experts at warfare by presenting depictions of armies, weaponry and fortifications as justification for this thesis.  Large format paperback.  40 pages.  Illustrated.  Slight foxing and minor signs of

Period: Industrial

Illustrated gazetteer of the historic mills, worker´s cottages, ironworks, warehouses, breweries, lead mines, tollhouses, collieries, brick kilns, waterworks, tramways, railway and canal architecture.  Paperback.  60 pages.  New condition.  Cat No 2390

Period: Industrial

Illustrated gazetteer of the historic mills, docks, jetties, limekilns, bus garages, tram sheds, factories, chemical works, aerodromes, dyeworks, weaver's cottages, railway and canal architecture.  Paperback.  56 pages.  New condition.  Cat No 2391

Region: Persia

The history and material culture of ancient Persia from the Archaemenids to the Sasanians.  Large format paperback.  Dual language English and Arabic.  92 pages.  90 colour and b&w plates.  Area map.  Printed in Tehran.  Good clean condition.  Cat No 23

Region: Africa

Detailed study of the C12th Tinmal mosque situated in the high Atlas before restoration and comparisons with other large mosques of similar age and design in Morocco and Spain.  Paperback.  33 pages plus four fold-out diagrams and twenty-two excellent b&w plates.  Very good con

Region: Britain - Wales

Covers the true stories of over fifty shipwrecks itemising the name of the ship, the date and location of the wreck followed by a text entry covering the circumstances and results of any rescue and salvage attempts.  Large format paperback.  112 pages.  Very good condition.  C

Region: Americas

Presents around 200 Maya glyphs from Maya sculpture, paintings and Spanish codices.   Each opens a window onto fragments of everyday life or religious beliefs and revealing the complexity of the Mayan calendar, mathematical computations, and astronomy.  Paperback.  180 pages.&