An illustrated guide to the glass collections of: the British Museum; the Victoria & Albert Museum; the National Museum of Scotland (Edinburgh); the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford); the Bristol Museum; the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery (Bedford); the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge); and the Merseyside M

Visitor's guide to the new large Shanghai Museum and the many ancient artefacts contained within.  Illustrated throughout with excellent colour photographs and galley floorplans.  Text in English.  Paperback.  78 pages.  New condition.  Cat No 4473 

A history of the Gloucester Docks from its origins as an inland port to its opening up as a major trading hub following the building of large wharfs and associated canal constructions in the 1790's, through its heyday through the C1th and C20th until the decline in commercial traffic in the 1970'

A history of the Beachley peninsular at the confluence of the Rivers Wye and Severn, with information on its prehistory including a Beaker burial and the terminus of Offa’s dyke, followed by details of its medieval manor and associated salmon fisheries, the anchorite chapel on the estuary island

Insect pests cause irreversible damage to natural history ethnographic, textile and general collections in museums.  This book identifies the problems and gives practical advice on the detection, prevention and control of insect pests in museum stores.

The looting and deliberate destruction that accompanied two decades of war left the Kabul museum with nothing but a carcass, emptied of its prestigious collections: Missing - the ivories and glass from the treasure of Begram; Destroyed - the stelae and Buddhas of Hadda, Shotorak and Païtava; Disa

A report of a committee set up by the Central Council for the Care of Churches surveying methods of preservation of frescoes and tempera in Britain and Scandinavia and Germany.  A second section deals with the defects of wall structures which bear the paintings.

Catalogue of the exhibition ‘Ancient Fabrics and Sacred Vestments’, organized as part of the events to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the dramatic destruction of Montecassino in 1944, and collects the most significant pieces of the abbey's vast collection, reassembled thanks to the work of resc

A colourful synopsis of the history of Western Phoenician settlement in North Africa with specific fact sheets on the Tunisian sites of Carthage, Kerkouane, Utique and Sousse.  Includes maps and many colour photographs.  Paperback.  16 pages.  In very good clean condition.

A catalogue of a large collection of Khmer artefacts and sculptures assembled by the acknowledged authority Loius Finot during French rule in Indo-China during the early 1900's.