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Theory & Practice: Coins

Paperback.  44 pages.  In new condition.  Cat No 4959

Region: Egypt

A lengthy treatise on glass from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Palestine, Greece and Rome.  Illustrated with ten tipped-in colour plates and 100 b&w photographs.  Hardback.   110 pages.

Region: Britain - London

A short introduction to Roman London followed by twenty b&w photographs of archaeological finds.  Paperback.  24 pages. Good condition.  Cat No 4797

Theory & Practice: Art History

The author’s thesis is that the division of Byzantine fresco painting is artificial and based more on political boundaries than stylistic differences and Balkan examples from Serbia and Bulgaria (and ultimately Russia) are so similar to those of Macedonia that they should be regarded as a unified

Region: Africa

Catalogue of an exhibition of West African art featuring in particular the Ashanti of Ghana, the Yoruba of Nigeria and the Baluba of the Congo. Specific sections feature masks, the Benin bronzes, and the influences of Western cultures on African art.

Region: Italy

The most thorough description available of the purpose and structure of the Christian catacombs beneath Rome dating from 2nd to 4th centuries and revered at the time, then lost, only to be rediscovered in the C17th and the subject of systematic excavations during the C19th when interest peaked.

Theory & Practice: Coins

The author explains the history of trade tokens providing a guide for the collector interested in their value as economic and social chronicles, particularly during the industrial revolution.

Region: Eastern Europe

A large photo album of eighty b&w plates of the decorated medieval tombstones (Stećci) unique to the western Balkans, Bosnia and Croatia in particular, and generally attributed to the period of Bogomilist gnostic religious practice (although not universally accepted as such) and now inscribed

Region: Scandinavia

An attractive English-language guide to the open air museum at Lyngby which displays historic farmsteads, cottages, farm buildings and windmills.  Each building is described and illustrated with excellent architectural drawings alongside vignettes of tools and utensils.

Region: Greece

Locally published pocket guide to the history, remains, excavations and legends associated with Delphi.  Paperback.  52 pages.  Eight b&w plates.  Good condition.  Cat No 3568