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Theory & Practice: Coins

Paperback.  32 pages.  Good clean condition.  Cat No 5085

Region: Eastern Europe

Paperback.  120 pages plus 81 b&w plates.  Slight fading to spine, otherwise in very good condition.  Cat No 4931

Theory & Practice: Ancient Books & Documents

Paperback.  24 pages.  In good clean condition. (This copy includes a leaflet explaining the basis for the exhibition that this book supports and the Gertrude Bell Project behind it.)  Cat No 4859

Region: Britain - London

Paperback. 36 pages. In good clean condition.  Cat No 4852

Theory & Practice: Instruments Tools & Weapons

Examines the mechanisms of time measuring devices that regulate by the consistent flow of water in or out of the device, a technique employed from the most ancient Egyptian and Babylonian times but reaching its apogee during the Medieval Islamic period where the principles of Archimedes instructi

Region: Australasia/Pacific

A comprehensive illustrated guide to traditional Maori arts and crafts - carving, dyes and tatoos, painted patterns, wall panels, weaving, and basket work.  Hardback.   160 pages.  In good clean condition.  Cat No 4739  

Region: Central Asia

A lavish illustrated guide to the iconography of the major religious paintings of Tibet.  For the first time, a unique collection of unique Tibetan temple pictures, the John Gilmore Ford Collection, is made available.

Region: Americas

An album of superb b&w portraits of Lakota Sioux men,women and children taken on the Rosebud Reservation by three photographers over a period of almost a century - John a Anderson (1890's), Eugene Buechel (1920's), and Don Doll (1970's).  Large landscape-format paperback.

Region: Egypt

A sumptuous catalogue of an exhibition that took place in Berlin in 1976 commemorating the reign of the 18th dynasty pharaoh Akhenaten and his regal wife Nefertiti who broke with tradition to found the new city Amarna and the short-lived cult worship of the god Aten.