Attractive guide to fifty of the finest carved jade objects housed in the Nanjing Museum – bracelets, pendants, belt hooks, hairpins, cups, incense burners, flower holders, and brush washers.  Each is described and illustrated in high quality colour photographs.  Paperback.

A comprehensive guide to the Neolithic settlement of Tenta in southern Cyprus whose architectural and archaeological remains of a pre-ceramic culture are explored and examined in great detail to reconstruct its building techniques, its burial customs and its economy.

An attractive colour guide to the natural features of hot springs and travertine formations, as well as extensive coverage of the Phrygian, Hellenistic and large Roman ruins added as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988.  Paperback.  80 pages.  Very good condition.  Cat No 410

A large beautifully produced guide to one of the world's finest Romanesque buildings. Illustrated throughout with many excellent colour photographs. 128 pages. Large format paperback. Text in English. New condition. Cat No 4033

Resulting from a documentation project by the Deutschen Schiffartsmuseums this book traces the history and evolution of ships figureheads up to its highpoint of decorated Renaissance and Baroque ships and the windjammers of the C18th.

An exhibition catalogue presenting two centuries of powerful, striking masks made by artists on the Pacific Northwest Coast. Some depict animals and supernatural creatures while others are human face masks representing ancestral spirits which descend from the heavens.

Academic treatise on the palaeoenvironment, ethnobotany and the spread of agriculture in prehistoric Zimbabwe with specific archaeobotanical case studies of cave settlements and early farming communities, including that of Great Zimbabwe.

An illustrated guide to the ancient Roman mountain fortress in Lazio important in guarding the Pontine marshes south-east of Rome but abandoned by the first century AD.  The layout of the site and the remains of its enormous masonry are illustrated in colour and b&w photographs.

Locally published guide providing comprehensive coverage of all prehistoric cultures of Peru from the Archaic period through to the Formative pre-2000 BC cultures such as the Chavin, followed by the Moche, the Nasca, the Tiwanaku and up to the pre-Hispanic expansive Inca empire.

This massive exhibition catalogue of one of the world’s premier collections of the art of Oceania.  presents a broad and detailed overview of traditional art from Sumatra to New Zealand and across the whole of Melanesia and Micronesia.