Pocket guide to Coptic culture in Egypt.  60 colour plates depict the wall paintings and icons of Coptic churches in Alexandria and Cairo followed by Coptic desert monasteries and a section on Coptic textiles.  Each illustration has a facing description in English, French and German.

Pocket handbook to fifty-five archaeological sites around the periphery of the long Oslo fjord from Larvik in the West to Svinesund in the East.  Each has a description of its most significant features.  Most have a site plan and many have b&w photographs.  Paperback.

Exhibition catalogue celebrating the cartographer's art over the centuries.  Three essays on this theme precede 54 full-page plates in colour and b&w illustrating the finest maps from the C15th to C18th.  Bibliography and Index to cartographers.  Paperback.  88 pages.

A large handsome catalogue of manuscripts on loan from the National Library in Madrid and exhibited at the Bodleian Library, all of which are connected with the advancement of science from the C12th to C19th.

An album of traditional Navajo sand paintings depicting their subjects and the symbolism behind them.  Twenty-eight examples are illustrated in colour with accompanying descriptive text.  Large format paperback.  32 pages.  Good condition. Cat No 3555

Illustrated guide to the extraordinary site of cave and cliff dwellings first occupied in the Palaeolithic but most famous for being the site of a medieval town clinging to the high rock ledges and inhabited for several centuries as an impregnable community complete with workshops and a church.

A comprehensive record of the work of two dedicated plant scientists who were instrumental in the establishment of archaeobotany and paleoethnobotany as subdisciplines within American archaeology.

A detailed survey into the social, economic and cultural practices of a traditional Nepalese mountain village community compiled during four visits by an American researcher and covering such aspects as: Ethnic groups, agriculture, transportation, markets, cottage industries, religious worship, f

Lavish sales catalogue featuring forty-nine of the finest medieval maps and atlases.  Each is illustrated in large colour plates with a facing description giving full details of subject, history, mapmaker, publisher, date, provenance and references.  Large format paperback.

Colour album of photographs of the ancient Roman town buried under ash and pumice in AD 79 whose villas were larger and more lavish than those at Pompeii as evidenced by the photographs of wall paintings and mosaics featured here.  Large format paperback.  64 pages. Text in English.