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Region: Britain - Wales

Official guide to three of the best preserved and easily visited small castles of the southern Welsh marches. Lengthy descriptions of each castle and their historical contexts as well as reconstruction diagrams and groundplans. 48 pages. Paperback. New condition. Cat No 2039

Region: Americas

Early guide to the Mayan city of Palenque describing the buildings and in particular the pyramid temple of inscription and its burial crypt. 20 pages plus two fold-out plans. Small crease to cover otherwise good condition. Cat No 1991

Period: Paleolithic

Early guide to the Palaeolithic remains and cave sites. 64 pages. Illustrated in b&w. Text in French. Paperback. Good condition. Cat No 1992

Region: Britain - W. England

Illustrated catalogue of 14 Romano-British altars, votive tablets and other stone sculptures in the collection of Gloucester Museum most locally produced in Cotswold stone.  36 page booklet.  Good condition.  Cat No 1933.

Region: France

Lengthy and highly detailed guide to the many medieval murals of the village churches in the Yonne region in North West France. Explanatory text interprets the murals alongside excellent colour photographs. 178 pages. Fold-out location map. Text in French. Paperback. Good clean condition.

Region: Britain

An exhibition catalogue of representative coins from celtic coinage through major examples of imperial coinage to provincial mints and debased coins ending with the legacy of anglo-saxon coins. 83 examples illustrated and described. 20 pages. Paperback. New condition. Cat No 1942.

Region: Greece

Comprehensive illustrated guide to the site and excavations of the Mycenaean palace of Nestor. Architecture, frescoes, storage jars and linear B tablets are all discussed. 68 pages. Paperback. Brand new condition. Cat No 1946.

Period: Industrial

Guide to the discovery, excavation and purpose of the Teesside Elizabethan glass furnace - the only one of its kind in the UK. Also notes the names of foreign glassworkers known to work on the site and the merchants who had a stake in it. Booklet. 20 pages.

Region: Britain - Midlands

Discusses the iconography of extant Anglo-Saxon crosses and stone slabs of the ancient kingdom of Mercia. 16 page ilustrated booklet. Good clean condition. Cat No 1950.

Region: France

Guidebook to the remarkable fortified medieval city. Visitor itinerary. 53 illustrations and double page map. Paperback. Good condition. Cat No 1953.