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Coins of Roman Britain: Stanley Gibbons Guide
Paperback. 32 pages. Good clean condition. Cat No 5085
Brunel's Tubular Suspension Bridge Over the River Wye: Reprint of the 1856 Pamphlet with Additional Illustrations and Notes
Paperback. 18 pages. In good clean condition. Cat No 5072
The Dawn of the Dark Ages: The Gepids and the Lombards in the Carpathian Basin
Paperback. 120 pages plus 81 b&w plates. Slight fading to spine, otherwise in very good condition. Cat No 4931
Gertrude Bell: A Selection from the Photographic Archive of an Archaeologist and Traveller
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
On the Construction of Water-Clocks
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
New Zealand Maori Arts and Crafts
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
Secret Revelation of Tibetan Thangkas: Picture Meditation and Interpretation of Lamaist Cult Paintings
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.
Crying for a Vision: A Rosebud Sioux Trilogy 1886-1976
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.
Nofretete - Echnaton
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.