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Region: Britain - S. England

Paperback.  48 pages.  Good condition.  Cat No 5071

Theory & Practice: Technique

Hardback edition of a comprehensive student's guide to archaeological sampling techniques and their analyses, exemplified by case studies.  30 pages.  Tiny name inscribed on the half-title page, otherwise good condition.  Cat No 5004 

Region: Britain - Scotland

A complete alphabetic listing of terms and meanings applied in Scotland to every conceivable architectural feature likely to be encountred in the nation's historic buildings.  Illustrated.  Hardback.  96 pages.

Theory & Practice: Ethnography

'Bone and Horn Carving: A Pictorial History' is the correct title (Amazon's title is nonsense).

Region: Greece

A guide to the large collection of ancient Greek and Roman figurative sculptures collected during the C17th by the Earl of Arundel and now on display in the ground floor gallery of the Ashmolean Museum Oxford.  24 plates accompany the text.  Paperback.  50 pages.

Region: Scandinavia

A six-page card-bound offprint describing a rune-stone discovered in the tower wall of St Maurice's church during alterations in 1970.  A b&w plate accompanies the text.  Good condition.  Cat No N227

Region: Britain - Wales

Sixteen-page illustrated visitor booklet describing nineteen industrial archaeology sites along a valley trail whose course is shown on a fold-out walker's map.  Illustrated with good line drawings of buildings, bridges and railway architecture.  In very good condition.

Region: Eastern Europe

A substantial album of photographs of traditional timber buildings in Russian Karelia, Bulgaria and Romania with a particular section on the remarkable large ecclesiastical complex at Kishi with its elaborate wooden cupolas.

Region: China/Japan/Korea

An exhibition catalogue providing a comprehensive chronological survey of the variety of ancient Chinese  jade items from the 4th millennium BC onwards, from ceremonial weapons and pi discs, decorative grave goods, personal ornaments, carved figurines and animals, to cups, vases and bowls.

Region: Americas

A large format souvenir guide describing J Paul Getty's ambition to recreate  a museum modelled on the lavish Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum and published to mark its opening in Malibu in 1975, now home to the large Getty collection of Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities.