xiii, 311 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Relics of the past : the collecting and study of pre-Columbian antiquities in Peru and Chile, 1837-1911 / by Stefanie Gänger.

xvii, 316 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 27 cm

The English virtuoso : art, medicine, and antiquarianism in the age of Empiricism / Craig Ashley Hanson.

xxv, 346 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20 cm

Land  of lost  gods : the search for classical Greece / Richard Stoneman.

The amateur and the professional : antiquarians, historians, and archaeologists in Victorian England, 1838-1886 / Philippa Levine.

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Relics of the past : the collecting and study of pre-Columbian antiquities in Peru and Chile, 1837-1911 / by Stefanie Gänger.

The English virtuoso : art, medicine, and antiquarianism in the age of Empiricism / Craig Ashley Hanson.

Land of lost gods : the search for classical Greece / Richard Stoneman.

The amateur and the professional : antiquarians, historians, and archaeologists in Victorian England, 1838-1886 / Philippa Levine.