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Guédelon: Fanatics for a Fortress
Large illustrated English guidebook to the project in the heart of Guédelon forest where a team of master-builders is building a 13th-century castle from scratch.
Trade Goods: A Study of Indian Chintz
Exhibition catalogue of painted and printed cotton fabrics brought to Europe by the Dutch and English merchant adventurers during the C17th and 18th. Thirty-four examples are illustrated and described, with additional chapters on manufacturing techniques and trade routes.
Roman and Saxon Wheatley: a History and a Walker's Guide
A walker's itinerary set against the back-drop of the Roman and Saxon history of Wheatley and Cuddesdon with an additional Appendix on the excavation of a Romano-British bath house in 1845. This second edition includes a Supplement on recent discoveries not present in the original edition.
An Exhibition of African Art
Catalogue of an exhibition of West African art featuring in particular the Ashanti of Ghana, the Yoruba of Nigeria and the Baluba of the Congo. Specific sections feature masks, the Benin bronzes, and the influences of Western cultures on African art.
Yucatan and the Mayas: Merida-Uxmal-Chichen Itza-Palenque
Locally published large visitor guide to the city of Merida and the major Mayan monuments of the Yucatan peninsular as well as several lesser known smaller monuments. Illustrated with many colour photographs. Also includes travel information for the area. Paperback.
Museum Boerhaave, Leiden
An attractive colour guide to the collections of National Museum Boerhaave that reflect five centuries of the history of science in the Netherlands such as the microscopes of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the first pendulum clock by Christiaan Huygens, the oldest heliocentric planetarium in the world,
Sculpture from Notre-Dame, Paris: A Dramatic Discovery
A exhibition catalogue published to commemorate the story of an extraordinary discovery made in Paris in 1977 during restoration work on the Hôtel Moreau in rue de la Chausée-d'Antin where many large stone heads were found and identified as belonging to kings and saints originally part of the med
Egyptian Art in Berlin
The prehistory of Egypt described from its Archaic period, through the Pharaonic dynasties to Graeco-Roman Egypt and the Kingdom of Meroe, as ilustrated by the extensive collections of two Berlin museums including the iconic bust of Nefertiti and the well-known Amarna relief.
The Mosaics of Jordan: Roman, Byzantine, Islamic - A Loan Exhibition
Catalogue of an exhibition, held in London and Manchester, illustrating in fine colour plates the Jordanian mosaics on loan to Sotheby's dating from the late Roman and early Byzantine periods and orignally located at Jerash, Nebo and Madaba.