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Theory & Practice: Coins

This is the original Seaby hardback edition (not the later paperback).  Hardback.  230 pages.  Bears the elaborate bookplate of noted numismatist Alan Morris, otherwise in very good clean condition.  Cat No 5086

Region: Eastern Europe

A full-colour visitor's guide to the C6th basilica in Poreč, Croatia, noted for its Byzantine architecture and Romanesque carvings as well as, in particular, its very rich mosaic decoration.  Illustrated throughout with excellent colour photographs.  Text in English.  Paperback.

Region: Middle East

Marking an exhibition that featured letters and archive photographs from the 1920's this large book  throws a spotlight on  the beginnings of American scientific archaeology in the Near East at a crucial turning point in world history.  Paperback.  160 pages.

Region: Egypt

A full colour catalogue published to accompany the exhbition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and reporting on recent research into  the Egyptian mummification process, burial rites and Tutankhamun's death.

Theory & Practice: Landscape

The texts of fourteen papers presented at a symposium on prehistoric mines and quarries in 2006.

Theory & Practice: Ancient Books & Documents

Large attractive dealer’s catalogue listing 191 exceedingly rare antiquarian books from the private library of the bibliophile and book dealer James Stevens Cox who died in 1997.

Region: Italy

Nine academic papers publishing the results of research into the extant remains of this large Roman villa at Varignano Vecchio on the Italian western coast which was built in the early first century B.C. on the site of an earlier residential building.

Region: Britain - N. England

Attractive full colour guidebook to the archaeology around Berwick from the Mesolithic to C20th industrial archaeology.  Paperback.  20 pages.  New condition. Cat No 3538

Region: China/Japan/Korea

Handsome album of high quality colour photographs of the Dazu Buddhist carvings in the caves of Chongqing dating from the C7th and now a World Heritage Site.   Paperback.  156 pages.  Dual language Introduction and captions - English and Chinese.

Region: Israel

Attractive illustrated catalogue for the exhibition held at the Israel Museum in Summer 2010 to mark the renovations and re-opening of the Archaeology Wing featuring archive photographs and artefacts displayed to celebrate the pioneering work of Flinders Petrie, Conrad Schick and the Palestine Ex