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Region: Eastern Europe

Very large album of b&w photographs of the C14th carved tombs and grave markers (stećaks) found in Bosnia-Herzegovina.  Introductory essay in English.  Paperback.  32 pages.  Good condition.  Cat No 4992

Region: Britain - N. England

A guide to the large legionary fortress largely under the present day city of Chester and featured barracks, granaries, headquarters, military baths and an unusual elliptical governor's headquarters.  Illustrated.  Paperback.  48 pages.  Good condition.  Cat No 4799

Theory & Practice: Conservation

A report of a committee set up by the Central Council for the Care of Churches surveying methods of preservation of frescoes and tempera in Britain and Scandinavia and Germany.  A second section deals with the defects of wall structures which bear the paintings.

Region: Americas

An historical survey examining the variety of sea-going canoes used by various sea-board indigenous tribes of North America and their contact with European expansionism in the 1500's 1600's which may have initially involved trade but invariably resulted in conflict and the occasional capture of t

Theory & Practice: Ancient Books & Documents

Album of superb medieval illuminated manuscripts illustrated in b&w and colour (incl gilt embellishments) as sixty-eight full page plates preceded by a six-page introductory essay in German.  This is the original 1959 edition.  Card covers in illustrated dustjacket.

Theory & Practice: Folk Art

Attractive illustrated guide to the folk art of devotional wax sculptures and simple wax tableaux produced in Bavaria and Switzerland from C18th.  Text in German.  Many colour photographs.  Hardback.  70 pages.  Good clean condition.  Cat No 3899

Region: Britain

Discusses the C16th reconstruction and extension of an earlier church with reference to its fabric, internal furnishings and extant documentary evidence from the Elizabethan period, a time less well documented than some others.

Region: Persia

A catalogue of coins retrieved during excavations in the 1930's at Ișțakhr near Persepolis, the majority of which were Sasanian, Umayyad and Abbasid.  Coins are described in terms of inscription, ruler, date, and mint.

Region: Africa

A 1950's period pocket guide to the large Roman remains on the Libyan coast.  Useful introductory text in English/Italian/German followed by 49 b&w plates.  Peprback.  76 pages.  Map and site plan.  Good clean condition.  Cat No 2958

Period: Medieval

Little book describing and illustrating the many historic objects made from leather in medieval times - tankards, bottles, saddlery, coffers, doublets, gloves, footwear, musical instruments, horn books and water buckets.  Paperback.  32 pages.  Slight staple rust and age, otherwise