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Islands of Angry Ghosts. Hugh Edwards. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1966. First UK edition (reproduced from the US edition). 8vo hardback in black cloth with pictorial dust jacket, c. 200 pp, illustrated with photo plates by Maurie Hammond and maps, with bibliography and index. A classic account of the 1629 wreck of the VOC flagship Batavia off the Houtman Abrolhos and the ensuing mutiny and massacres, drawing closely on contemporary...

Medieval Slavic Coinages in the Balkans. Hardcover, Dobrinic, Julijan, and Martin Dimnik. 15 January 2019. An important and very useful modern reference, written to give the English-speaking reader a clear general survey of the medieval Slavic coinages of the Balkans as a whole. Rather than focusing narrowly on one ruler, one mint, or one hoard, it brings together current scholarship in a single volume and offers a practical catalogue of...

Medieval Coins of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland by George Frynas, published by Spink Books in 2015, is a major modern reference and the first catalogue of its kind to unite the medieval coinages of Bohemia, Hungary, and Poland within a single volume, covering the rich and varied issues of the 10th to the 15th centuries. Based on the latest scholarship and updated attributions, it illustrates more than 1600 coin types and includes over 80 new...

Classic Chinese Charms. Shanghai: Wen Hua Publishing House (Wen Hua), circa 2011. Large 4to, hardcover in pictorial boards, bilingual Chinese English text, colour throughout on coated art paper. A well photographed reference on Chinese charms and amulets, ranging from early pieces through late Qing and Republic material, arranged by purpose and motif, including auspicious inscription types, zodiac and calendrical charms, marriage and...

Cast Chinese Amulets by David Hartill, hardcover, 2020. A substantial and highly practical reference devoted to the long and fascinating tradition of Chinese cast amulets, covering pieces produced over more than two thousand years in bronze and brass, from cash-shaped charms to openwork, pictorial, zodiac and inscriptional types. Hartill arranges the material for ease of identification, with finding guides based on visible features and...

Cast Chinese Gaming Pieces by David Hartill, published by New Generation Publishing in 2022, is a useful and attractive specialised reference devoted to an area often overlooked in the standard literature on Chinese cast objects, focusing on pieces whose primary function was gaming rather than amuletic use. Intended to complement Hartill?s earlier work on cast Chinese amulets, this concise volume covers horse coins, chess pieces, select-an-...

Unpublished Coins of the Medieval Kingdom of Cyprus A useful and historically important reference on the medieval coinage of Cyprus, this 1980 reprint of the original 1873 edition by Paul Lambros preserves one of the earliest catalogues devoted to the series, covering the coinage of the Kingdom of Cyprus from 1184 to 1571. Published originally by K. N. Sathas in Vienna, the work combines historical background with a catalogue of the issues,...

Grierson, Philip, Coins of Medieval Europe (Coins in History Series). London, B. A. Seaby Ltd., 1991. Hardback in the publisher?s dust jacket, 248 pages. ISBN 1-85264-058-8. A wide-ranging one-volume history of European coinage from the end of the Western Roman Empire to the eve of the modern period, revised and expanded from the author?s earlier French edition. Grierson moves clearly through the major monetary shifts of the Middle Ages, from...

Medieval European Coinage, Volume 14: Italy (III), South Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, with a Catalogue of the Coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2009. Digitally printed paperback, 793 pages, 63 plates with facing text. A major and very useful volume in the Medieval European Coinage Grierson, Philip, and Lucia Travaini., series, covering the rich and complicated coinage of South Italy, Sicily, and Sardinia from...

Coinage in South-Eastern Europe 820-1396, by D. M. Metcalf. Royal Numismatic Society, 1979. 371 pages, 7 plates, red cloth with dust jacket. An important and long respected study of the coinage of South-Eastern Europe across a wide and complex medieval period, bringing together Metcalf?s careful scholarship on a region central to Byzantine, Balkan, and crusader monetary history. A very good working reference, still much used by collectors and...

European Crowns 1600?1700. John S. Davenport. Galesburg, Illinois, 1974 (printed by Hewitt Printing Corp., Chicago). Hardback in brown pebbled cloth with silver-stamped helmet-and-shield device and titles, issued without dust jacket. vi, 631 pages, with roughly 1,500 black-and-white illustrations and a foldout map of Italy, plus appendix and bibliography. A core identification manual for seventeenth-century talers and crown-size issues across...

Medieval European Coinage, Volume 1: The Early Middle Ages (5th-10th Centuries). Grierson, Philip, and Mark Blackburn. Cambridge University Press, 2007. Trade paperback. A major reference and the opening volume in the important Medieval European Coinage series, covering the coinage of Western Europe from the collapse of Roman rule in the fifth century to the rise of clearly defined political kingdoms in the tenth. The work surveys the...