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Period: Post-Medieval

An illustrated guide to the finest examples of C16th London silver in the Museum's collection.  A nine page introductory essay is followed by thirty b&w plates.  Very good clean condition. Cat No 3809

Region: Africa

An important 1970 facsimile reprint of an academic anthropological survey researching and recording every aspect of Bubi society, culture, religion and economy on the West African island of Fernando Poo at the beginning of the C20th.

Region: Mesopotamia

Illustrated guide to the Assyrian carved relief panels originally decorating the royal palace at Nimrud  dating from the C9th BC and depicting King Ashurnasirpal and his military campaigns.  Papetrback.  48 pages plus twenty b&w plates.  Good condition.

Theory & Practice: Landscape

Useful handbook on the appearance of deserted villages in the landscape, their distribution across English counties, and guidance for excavators.  The reasons for depopulation are also discussed - disease, expansion of sheep-farming, and enclosure of parkland.  Hardback.

Region: Britain - Wales

Illustrates some of the typical farmhouses and cottages of the Welsh Countryside - the one and two-roomed thatched cottages, the long house farmhouses and the half-timbered house.  24 b&w plates with descriptive captions.  Good condition.  Cat No 2928

Region: Americas

Substantial report on the history of this C18th fort located at the trading crossroads on the Great Lakes.  The many pottery sherds, mainly English but also French, German and Chinese, recovered during excavations are pictured, described and used to reconstruct the social and cultural change

Theory & Practice: Folk Art

This journal issue includes papers on the rushcarts of the North-West England, another on the traditional methods of seaweed collecting in Ireland, and one on the longhouses of Donegal.  Paperback.  112 pages.  New condition.  Cat No 2895

Region: Africa

Guide to the ruined arab walled town of Gedi on the Kenyan coast.  Includes descriptions of ruined houses, mosques, palaces and pillar tombs.  Illustrated with b&w photos and town plan.  16 pages.  New condition.  Cat No 2677

Region: Greece

An analysis of historic texts referring to Salganeus in Boeotia, Central Greece followed by the results of a very extesnive on-the-ground survey of the ancient Greek ruins and ramparts fortifying the surrounding mountain slopes between Thebes and Chalcis. Large paperback. 186 pages.

Region: Mediterranean

A rather primitively produced local guide to the ancient Greek remains in northern Cyprus.  Booklet.  24 pages.  Site plans and b&w photos.   Slight discoluration but otherwise good condition.  Cat No 2361