Paperback.  56 pages.  Minor signs of age, otehrwise in good condition.  Cat No 4864

An extensive exhibition catalogue of the large collection of botanical paintings created in the late C18th and early C19th by Pierre-Joseph Redouté and collected by enthusiast Rachel Miller Hunt during the 1920’s.

A scientific report on two well-known versions of the same painting by Hans Holbein, one in the possession of the Company of Barbers, and the other in the possession of the Guild of Surgeons, and thought to represent the union of their two antecedents in 1540; the latter considered the later vers

Lavish sale catalogue from one of the world's dominant rare book dealer featuring 171 examples of the very  finest medieval  texts.

An academic essay tracing the development of Coptic sculpture from its Alexandrian origins until it succumbed to the art of Islam in the eleventh and twelth century  followed by 147 b&w plates.  Hardback.  56 pages.

Seventy-two page advanced description of the history of Roman coinage followed by twenty-two b&w plates depcting the obverse and reverse of many of the finer coins from the museum's collection.  Paperback.

In the South Indian style of temple architecture, the gopura, or tower-gateway, is of exceptional significance and, after the twelfth century, came to supersede the central shrine as the largest and architecturally the most important building in the temple.

The story of the author's long trek in 1958 through the jungle of Yucatan during which he discovered many unknown Mayan ruins - pyramids, temples, oratories, and other archaeological remains - which had lain hidden for centuries under dense vegetation.  Illustrated with maps and line drawing

An excellent locally published academic treatise on the remarkable rock-cut city of Vardzia in South-West Georgia.   Dating from the C12th and C13th, the habitations and workshops were cut into the sheer cliff face to serve as a monastic fortress which then fell into disuse by the C16th.

History of the mapping of the Cape of Good Hope by navigators rounding the Cape on the way to the East Indies in the C17th and C18th illustrated with thirty-two examples.  Paperback.  Bears the bookplate of Sir Roy Strong.  Good condition.  Cat No 3451