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Region: India/Pakistan/Sri Lanka

Exhibition catalogue of cast metal Hindu deities, animals and birds produced as folk art across a wide swathe of Indian states.  351 examples are illustrated and described.

Region: Turkey

A very comprehensive illustrated guide to the extensive Roman remains at Pergamon in West Turkey.  Paperback.  120 pages.  Includes a large number of colour photographs, site plans, a large fold-out map and a bibliography.  Good clean condition.  Cat No 3372

Region: Britain - Wales

33-page report that examines a large number of microliths recovered from Mesolithic sites on the Welsh coastline to establish cultural affinities with each other and with those communities on the English side of the Bristol Channel both of whose many occupation sites must now lie submerged.

Region: Spain/Portugal

Extremely detailed study of the extant Islamic-style architectural decoration dating from C10th - C14th, characterised as Mudéjar, still to be found in the city of Tudela in Navarre, Northern Spain.  Paperback. 82 pages.

Region: Israel

Aphek was the city capital of the Canaanites until its subjugation by the Egyptians under Amenhotep II in the C15th BC from when it was ruled by an Egyptian governor whose palace excavation is reported here.

Region: Greece

An early exhibition catalogue of Greek (as opposed to Byzantine) icons derived from a single Swiss collection and exhibited in London in 1967.  39 icons are described in terms of subject matter, origin, provenance and date.  Nine icons are illustrated in b&w plates.

Region: Mesopotamia

Illustrated guide to the Assyrian carved relief panels originally decorating the royal palace at Nimrud  dating from the C9th BC and depicting King Ashurnasirpal and his military campaigns.  Papetrback.  48 pages plus twenty b&w plates.  Good condition.

Region: Greece

Full colour guide to the history,lifestyle and art of the Eastern Orthodox monastic communities of the extraordinary precipitous mountain-top monasteries of Meteora in Central Greece.

Region: France

Large full-colour guide to the ancient mountain towns and medieval castle sites of the Languedoc region of Southern France associated with the heretical Catharist sect of the C14th.  Large format paperback.  128 pages.  English text.  Good condition.  Cat No 3358

Theory & Practice: Coins

Auction catalogue of a unique collection of 600 ancient Greek coins each described in great detail with their obverse and reverse illustrated in b&w photographs.  An additional five colour plates depict forty of the finest coins.  Large format paperback.  96 pages.