Books from Trustees of the British Museum
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Catalogue of the Celtic Coins in the British Museum: Bronze coins of Gaul
By British Museum, Derek AllenThis third volume of The Catalogue of Celtic Coins in the British Museum is concerned with the struck and cast potin bronze coinage of Gaul. The earliest coins are likely...
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The Art of the Conservator
By Andrew Oddy"In this book, experts directly involved in the conservation of eleven important works of art made of different materials - including metals, wood, glass, ceramics and textiles - describe the...
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The New Thracian Treasure from Rogozen, Bulgaria
By Aleksandŭr Fol, Bogdan Nikolov, Ralph F. HoddinottThe New Thracian Treasure from Rogozen, Bulgaria
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Drawings by Guercino from British Collections: With an Appendix Describing the Drawings by Guercino, His School and His Followers in...
By Nicholas Turner, Guercino, Carol PlazzottaDrawings by Guercino from British Collections: With an Appendix Describing the Drawings by Guercino, His School and His Followers in...
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General Catalogue of Printed Books
By British Museum. Department of Printed BooksGeneral Catalogue of Printed Books
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General Catalogue of Printed Books
By British Museum. Department of Printed BooksGeneral Catalogue of Printed Books
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Greek and Roman Architecture
By Richard Allan TomlinsonIn this book, Richard Tomlinson traces the development of classical architecture around the Mediterranean, Europe and Asia Minor from the earliest hut habitations in Greece and Italy through to the...
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Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
By British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings, Mary Dorothy GeorgeCatalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
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Artificial Curiosities from the Northwest Coast of America: Native American Artefacts in the British Museum Collected on the Third Voyage...
By Jonathan C. H. King, British Museum. Department of EthnographyDescription of the North American section of the Cook collection, and three further eighteenth-century accessions of Pacific North American artifacts. Catalogue discusses in detail, and illustrates 137 Aleut, Eskimo and...
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Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC
By British Museum. TrusteesResulting from an international colloquium held at the British Museum in July 1992, this volume is largely devoted to the subject of Egypt's relations with the Mediterranean world in the...
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Greek Vases
By Dyfri WilliamsGreek Vases
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General Catalogue of Printed Books
By British Museum. Department of Printed BooksGeneral Catalogue of Printed Books
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Painted Books from Mexico: Codices in UK Collections and the World They Represent
By Gordon BrotherstonThe painted books of ancient Mexico constitute a particularly important chapter of world literature. The work of the tlacuilo, or scribes, goes back thousands of years before the Spanish Conquest;...
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Amulets of Ancient Egypt
By Carol AndrewsAmulets were first made in Egypt as early as 4000 BC and became essential adornments for both the living and the dead. They were believed to endow the wearer, by...
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Maya Hieroglyphs Without Tears
By John Eric Sidney ThompsonMaya Hieroglyphs Without Tears
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The Skeleton at the Feast: The Day of the Dead in Mexico
By Elizabeth Carmichael, Chloë SayerThe Skeleton at the Feast: The Day of the Dead in Mexico
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Demon of Painting: The Art of Kawanabe Kyōsai
By Timothy Clark, British MuseumKawanabe Kyosai (1831-1889), described as The Intoxicated Demon of Painting - who could paint a 50-foot theatre curtain in four hours - was a serious student of earlier styles, producing...
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Thunderbird and Lightning: Indian Life in Northeastern North America, 1600-1900
By Jonathan C. H. KingThunderbird and Lightning: Indian Life in Northeastern North America, 1600-1900
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Italian Renaissance Pottery: Papers Written in Association with a Colloquium at the British Museum
By Timothy WilsonItalian Renaissance Pottery: Papers Written in Association with a Colloquium at the British Museum
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Florentine Drawings of the Sixteenth Century
By British Museum, Nicholas TurnerThis is a catalogue of drawings from the British Museums collection and adds to the previously published catalogues of Italian drawings. The Catalogue covers the period form the High Renascence...