Locally published colour guide to ancient Babylon showing the ruins and comparative reconstructions of the Ishtar Gate, Ziggurat and the Hanging Gardens. 32 pages. Large format landscape paperback. Minor signs of wear but generally good condition. Unusual item. Cat No 1406

Attractive large format guide to the monasteries of mountain top monasteries of Meteora - St Nicholas Anapafsas; Roussanou; Great Meteoron; Varlaam; St Stephen; Holy Trinity - and the icons, wall paintings, wood carving, manuscripts, silver plate and vestments that they contain. 32 pages.

Attractive colour handbook the explores the lost Indian society of the island of Guadeloupe as deduced from aracheological remains, burials and carved stones. 120 pages. Highly illustrated in colour. Maps. Text in French. Paperback. Condition as new. Cat No 1416

Exhibition catalogue of 689 items representing the culture of the Rhone-Alps region from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance.  Each item described and many illustrated with b&w photos and line drawings.  238 pages. Eight colour plates.

Contains sixteen papers that include accounts of exciting discoveries relating to the port, the great chateau on the crag above it, the defences, and the newly discovered remains of the short-lived colony of the 1540s.

Academic report on volcanology, skeletal remains and archaeology recently recovered in the vicinity of Vesuvius. 78 pages. Text in Italian. Many b&w and colour photos, maps and plans. As new. Cat No 1166.

Extensive handbook to all aspects of early Christian art - illumination, manuscripts, metalwork, sculpture and architecture. 178 pages, 106 engravings. Paper covers showing some signs of wear and aging. Good condition. Cat No 1174.

A 24 page illustrated guide to the ancient village of Bories whose dry-stone huts and houses are listed as an ancient monument. Text in French but with insert in English. Title added by hand to cover otherwise in good clean condition. Cat No 1200.

Lavish illustrated catalogue of upmarket dealer in antiquities. 40 items are depicted each with their own full page photograph and detailed description - Cycladic, Assyrian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman antiquities are shown. Useful reference. Excellent condition. Cat No 1207.

A tombstone of a book containing 54 papers in 10 chapters from the conference held in Vina del Mar, Chile in 2004. English papers have Spanish abstracts, Spanish papers have English abstracts.