Very full description of the ancient hill-figures extant or lost - Uffington, Westbury, Tysoe, Cerne Abbas, Wendlebury, Wilmington, Whiteleaf and Bledlow.  Includes a bibliography. Illustrated.  Hardback.  216 pages.

Paperback.  64 pages.  This is the more recent revised edition published in 1997.  In very good clean condition.  Cat No 4873

The results of excavations carried out on this important medieval hospital site between 1982 and 1991 which are integrated with documentary and environmental evidence in a chronological narrative which charts the development of the medieval infirmary, chapel and cemetery, and of the monastic cloi

A guide to the C16th palace in Southern India originally built in traditional Keralan style by the Portuguese and adorned with extensive Hindu murals and now, following extensive restoration, a protected national monument.

A traveller’s guide for use during a voyage on the historic Telemark Canal in Southern Norway.  The canal and its eighteen locks were constructed in the latter half of the C19th and connect several naturally occurring lakes into a single waterway of 105 kms in length.

Illustrated colour guide to the six Holy Grail tapestries created in the 1880’s by the William Morris workshop following designs by Burne-Jones which hung in the home of petro-chemical mogul William Knox d’Arcy and were then dispersed in the 1920’s following his death.

A practical handbook and introduction to the arts of Japan and their cultural signficiance taking as examples such well known artefacts as netsuke, inro, and samurai armour, as well as the artistic pursuits of haiku, brush painting and the tea ceremony.

A large and handsome catalogue of an exhibiton that displayed 144 ancient Egyptian artefacts.

An album of 80 superb b&w photographs of the forest pygmies of the southern Central African Republic taken during a single expedition by prize-winning photogapher Benard Descamps.

The main theme of this book is to recapture some sense of the religious art destroyed during the iconoclastic riots of 1566 in the Low Countries.  The author shows that some of the medieval art supposedly destroyed in the riots still survives.