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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days Featuring amazing objects from the British Museum, this series of captivating board books encourages children to engage with early learning concepts. Inquisitive toddlers will enjoy learning about different animals, with gorgeous photographic images on every page. Features Summary Featuring amazing objects from the British Museum, this series of captivating board books encourages children to engage with early learning concepts. Inquisitive toddlers will enjoy learning about different animals... Publisher Nosy Crow Ltd Release date 20180315 Pages 24 ISBN 1-78800-214-8 ISBN 13 978-1-78800-214-1

TREASURES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM by Marjorie Caygill Hard cover with D/W – 280x224 mm – 2002 British Museum Press 1st Ed 5th Reprint 240 pages with index; numerous b/w and colour photos. V/Good+++ cond: clean, tightly bound; l/spine mildly bumped; l/spine shelf wear; no inscriptions. D/W V/Good+++ cond: no tears; v/mildly rubbed; light indentations.

COLECTORS   & COLLECTIONS British Museum Publications Limited 1977. 210 x 270mm. 276p. Hard cover book with dustjacket in very good condition.         Please see the Photo's as part of the description. Sold as per scan.   International Bidders Welcome (Please enquire about shipping costs) Postage and Packaging: Shipping includes time, labor, packaging material and travel costs Post Office: R55, --- Courier R110 tot met 5 kg Items can be combined request.                    

Heritage of Evidence in the British Museum - Peter Masters Softcover.  I send by Ordinary mail and supply a tracking number. I combine postage. I also combine postage with Petersbooks and Jessies. Because of postage costs it is sometimes better to to order more than one book, as I charge by weight and combine postage it is more cost effective. For Book Condition see images below. Please quote Username or order number when making a payment                        

COLECTORS   & COLLECTIONS British Museum Publications Limited 1977. 210 x 270mm. 276p. Hard cover book with dustjacket in very good condition.     Please see the Photo's as part of the description. Sold as per scan.   International Bidders Welcome (Please enquire about shipping costs) Postage and Packaging: Shipping includes time, labor, packaging material and travel costs Post Office: R58, --- Courier R130 tot met 5 kg, Postnet R115 Items can be combined request.                    

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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days As the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, Britain was inevitably the epicenter of the development of modern industrial design. This book-the fourth volume in the "MoMA Design Series," featuring works in the Museum's extraordinary design collection-explores this legacy, tracing the growth of British design from the early stages of the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century to the Millennium Dome and beyond. In its more than 200-year scope, "British Design" explores a variety of design products and movements, such as Wedgwood pottery, the Arts and Crafts Movement, the Spitfire and Hurricane fighter planes of World War II, the Mini car and Dyson vacuum cleaner, the "Cool Britannia" cultural explosion in the late 1990s and British designers' take on the digital devices that define entertainment and communication in the early twenty-first century. An introduction by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, provides an overview of design culture in Britain; an essay and timeline by Hugh Aldersey-Williams, former design critic for "The New Statesman" and author of "The Most Beautiful Molecule" and "New American," illuminate the masterpieces of modern British design superbly reproduced in the volume's plate section. Features Summary Text by Hugh Aldersey-Williams. Introduction by Paola Antonelli. Author Hugh Aldersey-Williams Publisher Museum of Modern Art Release date 20100501 Pages 143 ISBN 0-87070-781-7 ISBN 13 978-0-87070-781-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Features Author Nosy Crow (Author), The Trustees of the British Museum (Illustrator) Publisher Nosy Crow Ltd Release date 20181230 Pages 22 ISBN 1-5362-0267-3 ISBN 13 978-1-5362-0267-0

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Author - Valerie Mendes. Binding - Softcover. Minor edge-wear. Book Condition - Good. Contents clean and tightly bound. Book Number - QB-008918 Location - Kalk Bay Shop Published Year - 1992 Published Place - London Publisher - Victoria & Albert Museum. Size - 4to. 94pp   A visual history of British fabrics showing the amazing creative abilities of professional and amateur designers throughout the period. Includes colour plates of designs.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days 'Nothing so fully displays the grandeur of his mind as his immense and rare collections...perhaps the fullest and most curious in the world', National Gazette, 1753 Hans Sloane (1660-1753) was the greatest collector of his time, and one of the greatest of all time. His name is familiar today through the London streets and squares named after him on land he once owned (Sloane Square, Hans Place), but the man himself, and his achievements, are almost forgotten. Born in the north of Ireland, Sloane made his fortune as a physician to London's wealthiest residents and through investment in land and slavery. He became one of the eighteenth century's preeminent natural historians, ultimately succeeding his rival Isaac Newton as President of the Royal Society, and assembled an astonishing collection of specimens, artefacts and oddities - the most famous curiosity cabinet of the age. Sloane's dream of universal knowledge, of a gathering together of every kind of thing in the world, was enabled by Britain's rise to global ascendancy. In 1687 he travelled to Jamaica, then at the heart of Britain's commercial empire, to survey its natural history, and later organised a network of correspondents who sent him curiosities from across the world. Shortly after his death, Sloane's vast collection was then acquired - as he had hoped - by the nation. It became the nucleus of the world's first national public museum, the British Museum, which opened in 1759. This is the first biography of Sloane in over sixty years and the first based on his surviving collections. Early modern science and collecting are shown to be global endeavours intertwined with imperial enterprise and slavery but which nonetheless gave rise to one of the great public institutions of the Enlightenment, as the cabinet of curiosities gave way to the encyclopaedic museum. Collecting the World describes this pivotal moment in the emergence of modern knowledge, and brings this totemic figure back to life. Features Summary 'Nothing so fully displays the grandeur of his mind as his immense and rare collections...perhaps the fullest and most curious in the world', National Gazette... Author James Delbourgo Publisher Allen Lane Release date 20170615 Pages 544 ISBN 1-84614-657-7 ISBN 13 978-1-84614-657-2

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days 'Nothing so fully displays the grandeur of his mind as his immense and rare collections... perhaps the fullest and most curious in the world', National Gazette, 1753 Hans Sloane (1660-1753) was the greatest collector of his time, and one of the greatest of all time. His name is familiar today through the London streets and squares named after him on land he once owned (Sloane Square, Hans Place), but the man himself, and his achievements, are almost forgotten. Born in the north of Ireland, Sloane made his fortune as a physician to London's wealthiest residents and through investment in land and slavery. He became one of the eighteenth century's preeminent natural historians, ultimately succeeding his rival Isaac Newton as President of the Royal Society, and assembled an astonishing collection of specimens, artefacts and oddities - the most famous curiosity cabinet of the age. Sloane's dream of universal knowledge, of a gathering together of every kind of thing in the world, was enabled by Britain's rise to global ascendancy. In 1687 he travelled to Jamaica, then at the heart of Britain's commercial empire, to survey its natural history, and later organised a network of correspondents who sent him curiosities from across the world. Shortly after his death, Sloane's vast collection was then acquired - as he had hoped - by the nation. It became the nucleus of the world's first national public museum, the British Museum, which opened in 1759. This is the first biography of Sloane in over sixty years and the first based on his surviving collections. Early modern science and collecting are shown to be global endeavours intertwined with imperial enterprise and slavery but which nonetheless gave rise to one of the great public institutions of the Enlightenment, as the cabinet of curiosities gave way to the encyclopaedic museum. Collecting the World describes this pivotal moment in the emergence of modern knowledge, and brings this totemic figure back to life. Features Summary 'Nothing so fully displays the grandeur of his mind as his immense and rare collections... perhaps the fullest and most curious in the world', National Gazette... Author James Delbourgo Publisher Allen Lane Release date 20170627 Pages 544 ISBN 1-84614-657-7 ISBN 13 978-1-84614-657-2

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Discover the spectacular sights of a truly historic and cosmopolitan city with the DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: London 2017. Now includes five free audio walking tours. The best places to visit in London, from Buckingham Palace to the world renowned British Museum, are showcased with fantastic photography, illustrations, floorplans and detailed descriptions that explain all you need to know. Explore the cobbled streets of Covent Garden, eat in the best restaurants in London and join the hustle and bustle in Borough Market, with maps, reviews and insider information at your fingertips in this easy-to-use, comprehensive travel guide. Plus download the free DK Audio Walks container app and use it to scan the book's barcode. Then download your five free audio walking tours: Southbank - The London Eye to The Shard Theatreland and Covent Garden -Soho Square to Somerset House Royal London - Houses of Parliament to Trafalgar Square The City - Tower Bridge to St Paul's Cathedral Museum Quarter - Kensington Gardens to Diana Memorial Playground The app is available in the Apple Store and Google Play. Winner of the Top Guidebook Series in the Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards 2017. Features Summary Discover the spectacular sights of a truly historic and cosmopolitan city with the DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: London 2017. Now includes five free audio walking tours... Author Dk Publishing Publisher DK Eyewitness Travel Release date 20161007 Pages 440 ISBN 0-241-20954-4 ISBN 13 978-0-241-20954-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days A novel of historical suspense set in Victorian England and featuring stolen antiquities, betrayal and murder. For Emily, accepting the proposal of Philip, Viscount Ashton, was an easy way to escape her stifling home life so when her new husband dies on safari, she feels little grief for she barely knew the man. Now, two years on, when she finds his journals she discovers a very different man to the one she thought she had married - one who was a gentleman scholar who was very much in love with his new wife. Emily becomes fascinated with this new image of her dead husband and immerses herself in his intellectual pursuits, studying Greek and spending time in the quiet corridors of the British Museum. But there, amid priceless ancient statues, she uncovers a dark, dangerous secret involving stolen artifacts from the Greco-Roman galleries. and as she sets out to solve the crime she discovers even more surprises about her dead husband. Features Summary A Lady Emily mystery Author Tasha Alexander Publisher Constable Crime Release date 20140318 Pages 368 ISBN 1-4721-1132-X ISBN 13 978-1-4721-1132-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Welcome to London, but not as you know it. Oxford Street burned for three weeks; Regent's Park has been bombed; the British Museum is occupied by those with nowhere else to go. Lalla has grown up sheltered from the chaos, but now she's sixteen, her father decides it's time to use their escape route - a ship big enough to save five hundred people. Once on board, as day follows identical day, Lalla's unease grows. Where are they going? What does her father really want? What is the price of salvation? Features Summary 'THE HUNGER GAMES meets the London riots on board Noah's Ark' THE TIMES Includes reading group notes and a fascinating glimpse into Lalla's childhood in the short story prequel 'The Time Being'. Author Antonia Honeywell Publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson Release date 20160305 Pages 352 ISBN 1-78022-734-5 ISBN 13 978-1-78022-734-4

  A handbook to the game birds By w.r. Ogilvie-grant Zoological department, british museum COMPLETE IN 2 VOLUMES. VOLUME 1 1896 & VOLUME 2 1897. VOLUME 1 - Sand-Grouse, Partridges, Pheasants, 24 plates.304pp VOLUMES 2 - Pheasants (Continued), Megapodes, Curassows, Hoatzins, Bustard-Quails, 24 plates.316pp Published by Edward LLoyd, Limited. Leather back titled spines on marbled boards. Some mild shelf-wear to covers, very mild spotting, no inscriptions, no loose pages, pages rough-cut edges. A good/very good set. POSTAGE (R.S.A.ONLY) R70.00 VIA P.O. or R110.00 VIA POSTNET. OVERSEAS BUYER PLEASE INQUIRE SHIPPING COST'S FIRST.

Monograph of the sea-snakes ("Hydrophiidae"), by Malcolm Smith. London 1926. Printed by order of the British Museum Hard cover; 130 pages plus 2 pages with black and white plates of shields and scales. Excellent condition. Ex Libris sticker in front. Under 1kg.      

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 13 working days Your Guide to the 10 Best of Everything in LondonDiscover the best of everything the city has to offer with this essential, pocket-sized DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide: London 2017 with pull-out map. Top 10 lists showcase the best places to visit in London, from the British Museum and Buckingham Palace to the best pubs in London. Thirteen easy-to-follow itineraries explore the city's most interesting areas - from the cobbled streets of Covent Garden to the vibrant East End - while reviews of London's best restaurants, hotels and shops will help you plan your perfect trip.Winner of the Top Guidebook Series in the Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards 2017. Features Summary Your Guide to the 10 Best of Everything in LondonDiscover the best of everything the city has to offer with this essential, pocket-sized DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide: London 2017 with pull-out map... Author Dk Publishing Publisher DK Eyewitness Travel Release date 20161031 Pages 192 ISBN 0-241-20922-6 ISBN 13 978-0-241-20922-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days A panoramic exploration of peoples, objects and beliefs over 40,000 years from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany, following the new BBC Radio 4 documentary and British Museum exhibition. One of the central facts of human existence is that every society shares a set of beliefs and assumptions - a faith, an ideology, a religion - that goes far beyond the life of the individual. These beliefs are an essential part of a shared identity. They have a unique power to define - and to divide - us, and are a driving force in the politics of much of the world today. Throughout history they have most often been, in the widest sense, religious. Yet this book is not a history of religion, nor an argument in favour of faith. It is about the stories which give shape to our lives, and the different ways in which societies imagine their place in the world. Looking across history and around the globe, it interrogates objects, places and human activities to try to understand what shared beliefs can mean in the public life of a community or a nation, how they shape the relationship between the individual and the state, and how they help give us our sense of who we are. For in deciding how we live with our gods, we also decide how to live with each other. 'The new blockbuster by the museums maestro Neil MacGregor... The man who chronicles world history through objects is back... examining a new set of objects to explore the theme of faith in society' Sunday Times Features Summary A panoramic exploration of peoples, objects and beliefs over 40,000 years from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany... Author Neil MacGregor Publisher Penguin Books Release date 20190928 Pages 512 ISBN 0-14-198625-5 ISBN 13 978-0-14-198625-8

(This title is available on demand: expected date of dispatch will be 4-7 working days once ordered) Original / British English A diamond necklace is stolen from a museum. Everyone who works at the museum could be guilty. But who really took the necklace, and why? The police suspect Paul, a young student. So Paul must find the real thief. Format:Paperback Pages:72

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 6 - 13 working days A single-minded adventurer and an eternal child who gave us the iconic Willy Wonka and Matilda Wormwood, Roald Dahl lived a life filled with incident, drama and adventure: from his harrowing experiences as an RAF fighter pilot and his work in British intelligence, to his many romances and turbulent marriage to the actress Patricia Neal, to the mental anguish caused by the death of his young daughter Olivia. In "Storyteller, "the first authorized biography of Dahl, Donald Sturrock--granted unprecedented access to the Dahl estate's archives--draws on personal correspondence, journals and interviews with family members and famous friends to deliver a masterful, witty and incisive look at one of the greatest authors and eccentric characters of the modern age, whose work still delights millions around the world today. Features Summary The authorised biography of one of the greatest storytellers of all time, written with complete access to the archives stored in the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre.. Author Donald Sturrock Publisher William Collins Publishing Release date 20110901 Pages 655 ISBN 0-00-725477-6 ISBN 13 978-0-00-725477-4

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 24 hours A single-minded adventurer and an eternal child who gave us the iconic Willy Wonka and Matilda Wormwood, Roald Dahl lived a life filled with incident, drama and adventure: from his harrowing experiences as an RAF fighter pilot and his work in British intelligence, to his many romances and turbulent marriage to the actress Patricia Neal, to the mental anguish caused by the death of his young daughter Olivia. In "Storyteller, "the first authorized biography of Dahl, Donald Sturrock--granted unprecedented access to the Dahl estate's archives--draws on personal correspondence, journals and interviews with family members and famous friends to deliver a masterful, witty and incisive look at one of the greatest authors and eccentric characters of the modern age, whose work still delights millions around the world today. Features Summary The authorised biography of one of the greatest storytellers of all time, written with complete access to the archives stored in the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre.. Author Donald Sturrock Publisher William Collins Publishing Release date 20110827 Pages 655 ISBN 0-00-725477-6 ISBN 13 978-0-00-725477-4

 THE SIEGE OF O'OKIEP GUERRILLA CAMPAIGN IN THE ANGLO BOER WAR *** PETER BURKE (SIGNED) *** The story covers the last eighteen months of the guerrilla campaign during those dark days of the Anglo - Boer - War (1899 - 1902), or the second war of Independence as the Afrikaner knows it and brings back an era of South African and British Empire history - sometimes forgotten today. Published by the WAR MUSEUM OF THE BOER REPUBLIC'S, BLOEMFONTEIN, REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA, 1995. H/C with D/J, 211 pages, D/J has some mild shelf-wear to edges & corners, internally very good, pages crisp, binding very good, o/a a very good copy. Includes maps & photographs. SHIPPING: POSTNET R110.00 or S.A.P.O. R65.00