The history of drainage and land reclamation on the Somerset levels from Monastic times onwards with particular reference to the introduction of steam pumping engines in the 1830's, some of which survive to this day, and their ongoing  preservation is discussed.  Paperback.

This is an exhaustive analysis of several thousand ceramic fragments recovered during  excavations in an elite residential area of the important medieval city of Vijayanagara in the present-day Indian state of Karnataka.

An academic discourse on the painting and painters of the C16th who undertook commisions to depict the Doges of Venice in the style to which they expected to be remembered.  Hardback.  154 pages.  Eighty-seven colour and b&w plates.  Bibliography.  Text in German.

Catalogue of an exhibition, held in London and Manchester, illustrating in fine colour plates the Jordanian mosaics on loan to Sotheby's dating from the late Roman and early Byzantine periods and orignally located at Jerash, Nebo and Madaba.

An attractive full colour pocket guide to the collections of the Museum of the Fabric of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, otherwise known as L’Opera del Duomo which include Renaissance marble sculptures, reliquaries, altar pieces, carved bas-reliefs and the polychrome terracotta statuary of Luc

An indispensable guide to over sixty archaeological ruins of the Anasazi, Hohokam, and Sinagua throughout Utah, Arizona and New Mexico including petroglyphs and pueblo sites such as Mesa Verde, Kinishba Ruins and the Chimney Rock Pueblo.  Illustrated with b&w photographs, site plans and

A survey of mills in East Cheshire, the centre of the silk industry in England.  Surviving examples from as early as the mid-18th century are have been studied to trace the evolution of silk mill architecture.  The technology of textile machinery and the systems that powered them are di

Substantial guide to medieval museum exhibits - frescoes, stained glass, ceramics, metalwork, furniture, gold, jewellery, enamels, ivory, stone, alabaster, embroideries and tapestries.

A high-end bookseller’s catalogue of thirty-six of the rarest or finest Qur’anic manuscripts mostly dating from the C9th to C15th and each illustrated in large full colour plates with lengthy descriptions of each.

Ireland contains over fifty stone castles built by the Anglo-Norman invaders in the period 1180-1320, hundreds of tower houses built from the 1420’s to the time of Cromwell’s invasion of 1649 and about a hundred stronghouses built on confiscated lands in the C16th and C17th.