Silk & Stone The Art Of Asia This volume explores the rich diversity of Asian art. The range of subjects examined includes silk in China under the Northern Song, Indonesian royal and ethnic gold, Islamic arhcitecture in the Deccan, a Persian manuscript of Sa’di’s “Gulistan”, Khmer sculpture and Mughal red-ground
Silver flatware english, irish and scottish 1660-1980: Ian Pickford takes a wide-ranging look at flatware patterns and, at the same time, discusses in deatil flatware makers, stylistic developments, quality, repairs, fakes, forgeries and alterations as well as the marking of flatware. A large part of the book is devoted, in
Sir Hans Sloane Collector, Scientist, Antiquary Founding Father Of The British Museum: Sir Hans Sloane was a considerable figure in his time. He was the natural successor to Sir Isaac Newton as President of the Royal Society, President of the Royal College of Physicians and the friend of John Ray,
Sir John R. Hicks –4 vol. set Sir John Hicks Critical Assessment of Contemporary Economists is one of the highest-regarded contemporary economists, and it is fitting that the new series of Critical Assessments of Contemporary Economists should commence with his work. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1972, Sir
