In very good clean condition.  Cat No 4844

A lavish illustrated guide to the iconography of the major religious paintings of Tibet.  For the first time, a unique collection of unique Tibetan temple pictures, the John Gilmore Ford Collection, is made available.

Gegeen Zanabazar was the supreme spiritual leader of Mongolian Lamaism in Mongolia during the mid-C17th and the most energetic evangelist for the spread of Tibetan Buddhism into Mongolia albeit in an adapted Mongolian version.

This book provides a background to the history and cultural heritage of Afghanistan with the emphasis on its architecture and archaeology, together with a gazetteer of its main monuments and archaeological sites.

An album of 108 colour photographs illustrating the ancient monuments and traditional lifestyle of Afghanis, preceded by an essay on the history of the country, its indigenous cultures, and its importance  as an axis of historic trade routes.  Hardback in dustjacket.

The looting and deliberate destruction that accompanied two decades of war left the Kabul museum with nothing but a carcass, emptied of its prestigious collections: Missing - the ivories and glass from the treasure of Begram; Destroyed - the stelae and Buddhas of Hadda, Shotorak and Païtava; Disa

The Silk Road was a system of historic trails that crossed the mountains and deserts of Central Asia to connect East Asia and the Mediterranean.

A lavish catalogue of the Hermitage Museum's collection of gold artefacts of the Scythian steppe nomads of the 7th century BC.  Illustrated with large number of fabulous colour photographs.  Bibliography.  Text in Russian.  Large format paperback.  64 pages.

Documents the history of the lost Siberian trading city of Mangazeya discovered by archaeologists in 1967.

An attractive photographic record of the art of the Graeco-Buddhist school that flourished in Gandhara along the silk road in the first century AD on the present-day border between Afghanistan and Pakistan where the cultural influences of Alexander the Great's empire and those of Buddhist India i