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PRE-HISTORIC TIMES
Written by John Lubbock.
Stock no. 1831643
Published by Williams and Norgate. 2nd 1869. Good condition.

Second Edition. As illustrated by Ancient Remains, and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages. Leather spine & corners, 5 raised bands to spine, gilt title and tooling to spine. Dark navy/black cloth boards. Marbled endpapers. 5 b/w plates and illustrations. xxvii and 619 pages including index. Leather spine & corners lightly rubbed at edges, gilt to spine is rubbed. Text block browned. Front joint is BROKEN so front cover is detached from text block. Personal bookplate to free front endpaper. Some pencil annotation. Some foxing present. One or two small dampstains and a few grubby marks. Hinges are pulled but binding is generally sound bar the broken front joint. Overall, a decent copy for a work of its age.

THE THAMES THROUGH TIME: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE GRAVEL TERRACES OF THE UPPER AND MIDDLE THAMES
Written by Anthony Morigi; Danielle Schreve; Mark White; Gill Hey; Paul Garwood; Mark Robinson; Alistair Barclay; Philippa Bradley.
Stock no. 1829516
Published by Oxford University School Of Archaeology. 1st 2011. Slightly better than very good condition.

Early Prehistory to 1500 BC. Part I - The Ice Ages; Part 2 - Mesolithic to Early Bronze Age. Oxford Archaeology Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph No. 32. Large format. Heavy. Pictorial boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. xxvi and 521 pages including index. ISBN: 9780954962784. Crinkling to to margins of pages 179-186 else a lovely copy.

BEAKER POTTERY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND (2 VOLUMES)
Written by D.L. Clarke.
Stock no. 1827744
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 1970. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Gulbenkian Archaeological Series. Volume 1 outlines the basis of classification and discusses the analysis of the material. Volume 2 contains line drawings of all known surviving complete examples of British Beaker pottery drawn at one-third size, detailed inventories of all known examples giving their finding-place, description, dimension and present whereabouts. Large format. Brown cloth boards, Gilt title on black title label to spine. B/w illustrations. Top edges brown. A heavy set. ISBN: 0521072492. A lovely set. Price-cut dustwrappers are a little grubby to rear panels.

'PICTURES FROM THE PAST'
Written by Martin Ringer.
Stock no. 1827712
Published by Marrin Publishing. 1st 2012. Slightly better than very good condition.

Solving the major mysteries of the Megalithic tradition in Great Britain and Ireland during the Neolithic and Bronze Age (from about 3500 BC to 1000 BC). Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour photos. ISBN: 9780957284302. Covers clean. Text block slightly grubby. A few tiny top corner creases to contents. Else a lovely clean copy.

BRONZE AGE BRITAIN
Written by Michael Pearson.
Stock no. 2132593
Published by B.T. Batsford. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

English Heritage Series. Large format. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 0713468017. Name in ink to front endpaper. Some light foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper has some uneven fading.

THE HORSE AND THE SWORD
Written by Harold Peake; Herert John Fleure.
Stock no. 2113577
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1933. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The Corridors of Time Series. Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. With 62 illustrations and maps. Bumping to corners. White correction fluid over an inscription in ink to front pastedown. Wrapper is edge-torn and chipped, with some grubby marks; a bit of loss.