This volume is intended to supply some supplementary information about the gems and cameos published in A Collection of Classical and Eastern Intaglios, Rings and Cameos, published in 2003 as BAR S1136 These had been chosen from a large private collection formed mainly in Italy from about 1921 into the 1960s. It comprised ancient gems but there was a number of post-antique, and part of this publication is devoted to further consideration of some of them, as well as of some comparable examples in the collection not included before, and especially to their later, most distinctive mounts, a...

Innerhalb eines halben Jahres habe ich ohne grosse Muhe mein Wunschgewicht erreicht und halte es nun schon seit gut zwei Jahren. Dieses Buch zeigt, worauf ich bei meiner Diat achtete, mit welchen Problemen ich zu kampfen hatte, was ich ass, was sich besserte und wie ich den gefurchteten Jo-Jo-Effekt vermied. Erwarten Sie hier allerdings kein Geheimrezept. Ich habe mit ganz normalen Lebensmitteln abgenommen, grosstenteils auf Sport oder mehr Bewegung verzichtet und keinen einzigen Cent fur irgendwelche Wundermittel ausgegeben. Und doch kann ich ruckblickend sagen, dass das Abnehmen gar nicht...

Alnwick Castle, ancestral seat of the Earls of Northumberland-the House of Percy-was built as a border fortress against the Scots in the twelfth century, if not earlier. Substantially enlarged in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and remaining in Percy family hands to this day, it stands now as a prime example of robust stone defensive architecture. Much visited and admired for its impressive exterior and interior, this dramatic stronghold and stately home is the setting for one of the most distinguished assemblages of gems in Great Britain still in private hands. The Beverley...