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Region: Britain - Scotland

Paperback.  26 pages of text plus 50 b&w plates.  Very good condition.  Cat No 5061

Region: Britain - W. England

A short but comprehensive description of the Dorset mosaic pavement unique anywhere in the Roman world in that it depicts a substantial portrait of Christ.

Region: Germany/Switzerland/Austria

A very large paperback exhibition catalogue marking every aspect of Austrian Romanesque art.  428 buildings and artefacts are described alongside four fold-out location maps followed by 72 colour and b&w plates.  Text in German.  Paperback.  366 pages. Good condition.

Region: Americas

An exceedingly detailed survey of this palace complex located in Teotihuacan, discovered and excavated by the author of this report.  Every aspect of its architecture, design, likely purpose, and mural decorations are discussed.

Region: Britain - N. England

A guide to the secret chapels and priest holes in the historic houses of Lancashire.  Illustrated with diagrams and eight pages of b&w photographs.  Includes a gazetteer.  Hardback.  60 pages.  Good clean condition.  Cat No 4369

Theory & Practice: Coins

Written by one the UK’s foremost numismatists this study describes in detail the coins struck in the name of English princes in France during the time when they were lords, dukes or princes of Aquitaine and during the period following the battle of Agincourt (1415) when they became de facto kings

Region: Spain/Portugal

A complete history of metal-working in Spain - gold, copper, silver, lead, bronze, tin, iron, zinc, and brass - from the Bronze Age through to the work of the Medieval armourer, as exemplified by many exhibits from Spain's Museo Aqueologicao Nacional and other Spanish museums.

Region: France

A definitive catalogue of three hundred and sixty Merovingian artefacts held in the archaeological collection of the  Musée Dobrée in Nantes including many stone sculptures and architectural fragments, sarcophaguses, ornate metalwork (including the large buckles for which Merovingian craftsm

Theory & Practice: Local History

Published to accompany a series of radio programmes on the BBC, this book covers: public archives; business archives; private archives; ecclesiastical archives; the chief repositories; archives relating to places; archives relating to persons; and public access to archives.  Includes several

Theory & Practice: Ancient Books & Documents

Two exhibitions at the Newberry Library in Honor of the Association of American University Presses on the Occasion of Their Visit to Chicago on May 31, 1964. I. Printers, Publishers & Scholars: Books Mainly from the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing. II. The Learned Presses.