A short history of Bulgarian icon painting from the C14th to C17th followed by an album of many excellent examples illustrated in full colour with captions detailing subject, date, artist, materials, size and location.  Paperback.  60 pages.

Large album of eighty colour and black-and-white plates depicting historic frescoes and icons from Serbia, Kosovo and Northern Macedonia.  Twenty page Introduction plus distribution map.  Text in German.  Good clean condition.  Cat No 3290

Short illustrated guide to the restoration and conservation of the large frescoes completed in 1466 by Piero Della Francesca.  A two page essay (in English) precedes eleven pages of high-quality colour photographs showing 'before' and 'after' examples in fine detail.  Paperback.

A large illustrated album of the interior of the medieval Greek Orthodox church in Istanbul which houses some of the oldest and finest surviving  Byzantine mosaics and frescoes.

A sale catalogue of sixty C19th Japanese triptych woodcuts.  Each is illustrated in black-and-white with descriptions providing details of artist, date, subject matter and technique.  Useful reference.  Paperback.  32 pages.  Good condition.  Cat No n39

Catalogue of an exhibition in the Art Nouveau villa of the Łódź factory owner, Leopold Rudolf Kindermann, recreating the atmosphere of secession in Łódź, one of the finest examples of a city that combined its fin-de-siècle industrial dynamics with the art nouveau aesthetic in its various forms –

Pocket guidebook to the fine Byzantine frescoes of the Church of Saint Sophia in Ohrid, North Macedonia, dating from the C12th and C13th.  Forty-eight black-and-white plates preceded by a twelve page introductory text (in English) and a Bibliography.  Good clean condition.

The author presents surviving works of Crusader figural sculpture introduced into the Holy Land in C12th in marked contrast to indigenous art forms.  Many examples described and illustrated had never been published previously and in some cases had only recently been excavated.  Large ha

Auction catalogue of a superlative netsuke collection comprising 161 outstanding examples, each illustrated in full colour with accompanying description, date, maker, provenance, prior publication and price estimate.  Appendices showing signatures, an Index by subject matter, and a Bibliogra

Treatise on the non-destructive techniques used when investigating the history and authenticity of old paintings - infrared photography, reflectoscopy, x-rays, ultra-violet fluorescence, etc.  Paperback.  122 pages.  Illustrated with 76 colour and b&w photographs.  Text in