The series of tomb paintings of Marisa, barely 60 kilometres southwest of Jerusalem, represents one of the first major discoveries of paintings dating from the Hellenistic period. They produced much excitement among art scholars and antiquarians at the time of their discovery a century ago.

Commemorates the work of this Peterborough bellfounder and his C18th bells found in churches in Northamptonshire and East Anglia.  This is a 2005 reprint of the original, re-issued to accompany a series of lectures by Northamptonshire Record Society on Henry Penn.  Paperback.

In good condition.  Cat No 4825

The results of a project to explore the Malvern Hills as a landscape of special archaeological intrest focussing not only on its two well-known large Iron Age hillforts but searching  for prehistoric and historic evidence along the ridge and its surrounding area using fieldwork techniques, d

The author explores Egyptian objects that were appropriated during Roman occupation and how this spawned a tradition of copying elements of this exotic and alien culture, as well as the development of existing cultural and artistic traditions in Egypt under Roman rule.

An elegant guide to the history of the former St. Bernard's Chapel in Esslingen and its preservation as an historical monument. Historical, restoration and art-historical investigations have shown that the building that survives today dates from the 1st third of the 15th century.

A lavish sale catalogue of 42 of the very finest items of silver and silver gilt by master silversmiths Robert Garrard, Benjamin Smith and Paul Storr.

A huge tombstone of a catalogue containing 346 lots of exceptional examples of historic Americana including rare documents, manuscripts, maps, charts, engravings and a selection of hard-to-find books, each illustrated in colour with lengthy descriptions including provenance and citations.

An academic treatise on the Medieval spiritual poem 'Dream of the Rood' dating from the English monastic movement of the C8th, a portion of whose heroic section is preserved in runes on the remarkable Ruthwell cross near Dumfries.

This issue contains a lengthy essay on the convoluted history of copper mining in Cornwall; the history of three C19th tin mines – Wheal Augusta, Nancegollan and Tresavean; and the known location of historic lime kilns across Cornwall.  Illustrated. Paperback.  110 pages.