A facsimile of a lengthy letter from Robert Laneham (aka Langham), a member of Queen Elizabeth I’s court, to Humfrey Martyn of the Mercers' Company describing the Summer 1575 entertainment of the Queen by Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, at Kenilworth Castle.

An album of 108 colour photographs illustrating the ancient monuments and traditional lifestyle of Afghanis, preceded by an essay on the history of the country, its indigenous cultures, and its importance  as an axis of historic trade routes.  Hardback in dustjacket.

A representative selection of old musical instruments from the collection of Hungary's National Museum dating from the C17th and C18th - virginals, clavichords, a giraffe piano, a chitarbone, lutes, a mandola, a viola da gamba, a pochette d'amour, oboes, a serpent, flutes and trombones.

Documents the history of the lost Siberian trading city of Mangazeya discovered by archaeologists in 1967.

Large catalogue published to accompany an exhibition at the Haud der Kunst Art Museum in Munich during 1969/70.  Introductory essay on the history and technique of historic icon painting followed by a catalogue of 390 exhibits each illustrated in b&w phoographs and occasional colour plat

Illustrated survey of the prehistory of this North-Eastern region of Poland from the Neolithic to the Iron Age.  Introductory essay followed by many b&w photographs of flints, pottery, and metal artefacts.  Text in Polish with ten-page summaries in English and Russian.

An essay on the history of Indonesian resist dyed Batik, the process of its manufacture, and the tools used, precedes an illustrated catalogue of 32 examples each described in terms of type of cloth, process employed, and patterns produced.

Full report of the excavations at the C15th hunting lodge illustrated with line drawings, sections and six b&w plates.  Paperback.  118 pages.  Minor signs of wear, otherwise good clean condition. Cat No 3343

Describes the history of printing and book production in Greenland from the earliest work published (rather surprisingly) as early as 1793. Illustrated, with early works in the Kalaalisut language depicted.  Paperback. 72 pages.

This book documents the introduction of printing to Indonesia and its immediate history thereafter starting in the 1670's with books printed by the East India Company on type imported from the Netherlands and taken up subsequenty by Christian missionaries producing proselytising tracts in Malay a