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Period: Neolithic

The original 1961 edition in good clean condition in a slightly worn dustjacket.  Cat No 4822

Period: Roman

An album of 144 b&w photographs depicting sculptures from across the Roman empire which create an important record of events and personalities of the age including works such as the triumphal reliefs of Trajan's Column or the decorations on the Augustan Altar of Peace.

Region: China/Japan/Korea

A scholarly introduction to a Chinese art form of the C12th featuring paintings of flowers, birds and animals in a stylised but highly naturalistic manner.  Ten of the finest examples are reproduced as full colour large tipped-in plates.  Large format paperback.  24 pages.

Period: Saxon

The text of a lecture describing the architecture of the very earliest Anglo-Saxon churches in Britain dating from little more than a century after the introduction of Augustinian christianity.

Region: Egypt

A double album of sound and music used in the original Son et Lumière production staged in front of the Pyramids in 1961. The two vinyl records come in a gatefold cover whose interior presents a large photo of the illuminated Sphinx and Pyramids.

Region: India/Pakistan/Sri Lanka

This volume examines two Southern Indian traditions of Travancore architecture: the ancient Dravida tradition of stone temples and the Kerala school associated with more recent wooden architecture although following ancient antecedents.

Region: India/Pakistan/Sri Lanka

The author describes in detail the unique architectural aspects of the Bhubaneswar temples in the Eastern state of Odisha (Orissa), their iconography and their chronology, singling out three of the most notable temples as case studies.  262 pages plus an Appendix of 143 b&w plates.

Region: Scandinavia

Attractive little guide to the boat burial at Ladby and the artefacts it contained. 24 photos and diagrams. Map. 43 pp. Condition good. Cat No 3210

Region: India/Pakistan/Sri Lanka

A catalogue of more than 400 coins of the Satavahana dynasty period (2nd/1st centuries BC) that ruled central India and issued the first Indian coinage.  The coins of various kings are described and are accompanied by 20 b&w plates illustrating all the coins.  Paperback.  70 pa

Theory & Practice: Ancient Books & Documents

Describes the C13th manuscript of the Book of Revelation now held by the Bodelian Library in Oxford and reproduces many of the most remarkable leaves on excellent full colour tipped in plates. 28 pages and fourteen plates. The book is in near new condition but in a rather badly worn dustjacket.