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Region: Italy

A large guide to the architectural features and internal decorations of the many medieval buildings still present in the old town of Castell'Arquato located on a rock outcrop in Emilia-Romagna northern Italy.  Illustrated throughout with a wealth of excellent colour photographs.

Region: Britain - S. England

Pieroni’s Fountain is a relic from a forgotten Victorian past when it dispensed water from Bath's hot springs to passers-by.  Created by Stefan Pieroni, an immigrant from Tuscany, whose name can still be traced around the base of the fountain.

Region: Britain - W. England

An illustrated guidebook to the most fashionable address in the whole of Regency Bath.  Built, and first occupied, in the 1770's this book illustrates by way of many excellent colour photographs the exterior architecture and the interior furnishings including a fine Cabinet of Curiosities.

Theory & Practice: Art History

The catalogue of an exhibition that comprises forty-five works by C18th miniaturist John Smart from a European single-owner collection with examples spanning Smart's career.

Theory & Practice: Art History

A technical description of the restorations of a C17th painting of Apollo and an C18th painting of Virgil, both of which are housed in the Italian Cultural Institute in London, and both of which were in very poor condition prior to restoration.

Region: Italy

Small attractive guide to the C16th Bo Palace still the administrative heart of the Renaissance University of Padua and home to the oldest anatomical theatre in the world.  Paperback.  36 pages.  Illustrated throughout.  New condition.  Text in English.

Region: Eastern Europe

This book presents twenty-one examples of Ottoman architecture in eight Hungarian cities - mosques, bath houses (hammams) and minarets.  The authors provide descriptions of each alongside architectural line drawings.  Includes a location map.  Dual language text Hungarian/Turkish.

Region: Italy

An exhibition guide and catalogue of ancient statuary portraying gods, emperors and evocative scenes of chariot races at the Roman Circus, as well as a selection of intricate mosaics and two wall paintings from nearby Isola Sacra (Ostia’s cemetery), amongst the finest examples from the site.&nbsp

Region: Mediterranean

This volume is designed as a wide-ranging analysis of ceramic standardization and variation, and as a contribution to pottery studies in the Mediterranean and beyond.  Papers originate from a European Association of Archaeologists Conference and cover Minoan, Mycenaean, Iron Age Spanish, Hel