An elaborate guide to the many residencies, pavilions and temples in the huge Imperial Palace complex whose earliest buildings date from the1620’s.

An illustrated guide to a large centre for experimental archaeology in Burgundy that reconstructed for visitors a full -size Neolithic lakeside village, Iron Age houses and workshops, Gallic fortifications and a Roman villa.  Text in English. Paperback.  32 pages.  Good condition.

A gazetteer of stocks and whipping posts arranged alphabetically by place with a cross-index by county. Each example is described with notes on condition, age and map reference, and with an excellent drawing on the facing page.

An extensive survey of the historic windmills that once populated Lambeth and now reduced to the recently restored four storey brick Ashby's Mill at Brixton.  The text is illustrated throughout with maps, historic engravings and archive photographs. Includes a Bibliography and Glossary.

A full colour catalogue published to accompany the exhbition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and reporting on recent research into  the Egyptian mummification process, burial rites and Tutankhamun's death.

An album of superb b&w portraits of Lakota Sioux men,women and children taken on the Rosebud Reservation by three photographers over a period of almost a century - John a Anderson (1890's), Eugene Buechel (1920's), and Don Doll (1970's).  Large landscape-format paperback.

An attractive full colour pocket guide to the collections of the Museum of the Fabric of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, otherwise known as L’Opera del Duomo which include Renaissance marble sculptures, reliquaries, altar pieces, carved bas-reliefs and the polychrome terracotta statuary of Luc

Articles include the following - Remains of a 7000-Year-Old Society at Hemudu Village; 7,000-Year-Old Oar; Unravelling the Mystery of Zhongshan Kingdom; Valuable Relics Unearthed in a Tomb at Leigudun; Some Sculpture of the Han and Tang Tombs; Cliff art on the Wolf Mountains; Wall Paintings of th

The human impact on the landscape of the Cairngorms has received less attention than most.

This book describes the unique collection of raw materials, tools and the exquisite Japanese lacquer collection held by Kew whose origin dates from the report ‘The Lacquer Industry of Japan’ commissioned in 1881by the British Government.