Illustrated guide to the design, materials and manufacturing techniques of the prehistoric jewellery of the Anasazi, Hohokam, Mogollom, Salado and Sinagua.  Paperback.  48 pages.  Good condition.  Cat No 3993

'Bookseller Posters of the 19th Century' an exhibition catalogue featuring many b&w illustrations of the finer examples accompanied by three essays and a bibliography on the subject.  Text in French.  Large paperback.  56 pages.  Good clean condition.  Cat No 3992

Substantial guide to medieval museum exhibits - frescoes, stained glass, ceramics, metalwork, furniture, gold, jewellery, enamels, ivory, stone, alabaster, embroideries and tapestries.

A survey of record keeping through history from the rock cut inscriptions of Darius and the ancient Egyptian 'Rosetta' stone, via the cuneiform clay tablets of the Sumerians, to the advent of medieval illuminated parchment manuscripts culminating with the introduction to the West of paper invente

An extensive exploration of the forensic bioarchaeologist's role in the analysis and interpretation of human remains from ancient sites using several historic New England burial sites as exemplars accompanied by a wealth of high quality laboratory photographs to illustrate their findings.

A compilation of cast and stamped brass horse harness decorations dating from 1870-1914 as illustrated in trade catalogues of the period.  Several hundred horse brasses, fly terrets, name plates and collar ornaments are illustrated.

Extensive report on excavations of the burials in Hereford's castle grounds, mostly dating from the C10th-C12th with additional analyses on age, sex, pathology, trauma, density and orientation of burials, as well as reports on the fragmentary evidence for associated buildings such as St Guthric's

An early guide to the collection of gold artefacts and ornaments from pre-Hispanic indigenous cultures featuring twenty excellent tipped-in colour plates of the finest objects.  Two maps.  Bibliography.  Text in Spanish.  Paperback.  64 pages.

Using historic maps of Lincolnshire parishes the author extols the virtues of the common open field system of agriculture degraded once parliamentary enclosures commenced in the late C18th.  Large format paperback.  20 pages.  Minor signs of age, otherwise good condition.

A large lavish exhibition catalogue of forty-three of the finest illuminated manuscripts shown in London (1988) and Tokyo (1989) by a high-end antiquarian bookseller.