A large heavy deluxe album of sixty-four high quality b&w plates recording the large-scale and painstaking renovation of the Parthenon structure and its decorations carried out during the final years of the C20th with illustrations of how earlier works may have caused more harm than good.

A booklet outlining the legal requirement in Scotland for farm buildings of historic merit to be awarded listed status, plus the rules regarding change of use or conversion, and grant aid for the repair and preservation of listed buildings.  Illustrated. 16 pages.

This landmark C15th timber frame building in the centre of Ledbury was in a poor and dilapidated state when purchased by Malvern Hills District Council in the 1970's which undertook its deconstruction, renovation and repurposing into the fine building  it is today.

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.

Fascinating description of how the unique C13th murals were stolen by a Turkish art dealer who cut them from the dome of the church at Lysi in Turkish occupied Cyprus, how they were rescued and shipped to London where they were painstakingly conserved and restored into a purpose built artificial

The first book to tackle authentication of paintings from a purely chemical standpoint.  Attribution and date are decided by a close chemical analysis of minute pigment specimens.

The proceedings of two conferences exploring new methods of conserving, displaying and interpreting archaeological finds both large and small.  Contents include the Newport medieval ship, the Beau Street Roman horde from Bath and the prehistory of Creswell Crags.

Not only an illustrated catalogue of the most impressive small finds reported to the Portable Antiquities Scheme, but also an overview of the positive role played by detectorists and associated media coverage.  Large format paperback.  Very good condition.  Cat No 3242

A list of sixty-three stately homes, mansions and manor houses under threat of abandonment or dereliction.  Each is illustrated and its history, current status and likely future described with suggestions for preservation.   Paperback.  48 pages.  Near new condition.

A call to arms to save the Palladian Veneto villas and their immediate landscape in North East Italy from a twin assault by motorway construction and the continual encroachment of industrial warehousing.