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Region: Eastern Europe

Devoted mainly to the C14th fortified citadel and the many fine historic churches.  Text in English.  Illustrated throughout in colour and b&w.  Hardback.  256 pages.  In very good clean condition.  Cat No 5007

Region: Australasia/Pacific

Explores the culture of the Sepik, their houses, and their methods and purpose of mask making.  A lengthy final section depicts 12 mwai masks, 20 gable masks, 21 trading masks, 29 canoe shield masks, 28 basket hooks, flutes and drums, and 23 pottery ornaments, all illustrated in colour.

Region: Britain - S. England

Prehistoric, Roman and Medieval Oxford revealed.  Illustrated. Paperback.  32 pages.  Good clean condition.  Cat No 4976

Region: Eastern Europe

A guide to the large, and almost entirely intact, Roman amphitheatre in Pula, Croatia.  An introductory essay explains the importance of Roman Pula as a source of olives and wine, and the purpose of the amphitheatre to its occupants.  Paperback.  28 pages plus 16 b&w plates.

Region: Britain - S. England

Twenty-eight archive documents relating to the history of Gloucestershire's turnpike roads reproduced in large format each with detailed descriptions.  Paperback.  Minor signs of age and one tiny name written on the front cover.  Cat No N242

Region: Britain - S. England

A survey of canals, textile mills, artisan housing, railways and tramroads, milestones and street furniture, quarries and clay pits, agricultural buildings, smithies, and breweries.  Illustrated with maps and b&w photographs.  Paperback.  28 pages.  Good clean condition.

Region: Australasia/Pacific

Although not overtly dedicated to the archaeology of these two extraordinary rock formations long revered as sacred by aboriginal peoples, this is the first study to record all aspects of their immediate environment - geology, climate, soil, land classification, flora and fauna.

Region: China/Japan/Korea

An expert introduction to the lesser known history of traditional Chinese carpets - historic developments, weaving techniques, colours used and subject matters.  Twenty-six b&w plates.  This is the 1973 re-issue of the original 1924 edition published in Tientsin.  Paperback.

Theory & Practice: Maritime

Written by a resident of Port Stanley this booklet describes fifteen historic wrecks visible to him in Port Stanley harbour namely: Capricorn (1829), Jhelum (1849), Margaret (1850), Actaeon (1838), Charles Cooper (1856), William Shand 1839, Snow Squall (1851), Egeria (1858), Fleetwing (1874), Aft