Subtitle: Recherches sur la Peinture en Émail dans L'Antiquité et au Moyen Age - Paris, 1856, hardback with quarter-calf binding, marbled boards and endpapers, gold block title to spine, 239 pp, six coloured chromolith plates, fold-out engraving of architectural detail in Venice; stamped 'Bibliothèque de F. Halévy' and gummed bookplate with author's dedication 'à Monsieur Halevy hommages de l'auteur J. Labarte'. 1.4 kg, 22.5 x 27 cm



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Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy (usually known as Fromental Halévy) (27 May 1799 – 17 March 1862), was a French composer in the mid-19th century. His given name Fromental (meaning 'oat grass') refers to his birth on the day (7 Prairial) dedicated to the same plant in the French Revolutionary calendar which was still operative at that time.

Oscar White Muscarella - New York, 1988, hardback with dustwrapper, 501 pp, monochrome. 2.2 kg, 22 x 28.5 cm



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Michael Mitchiner - London, 1986, hardback, 288 pp, black and white illustrations; new. 1.5 kg, 30.5 x 21.5 cm



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Oxford, 1971, hardback with dustwrapper, 341 pp, 85 monochrome plates. 1.9 kg total, 22.5 x 28.5 cm



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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Qedem, Monographs of the Institute of Archaeology, 4 - Jerusalem, 1976, in English and Hebrew, monochrome images; Westenholz, J.G. (ed.) - Images of Inspiration - The Old Testament in Early Christian Art - Jerusalem, 2000, 160 pp, colour images; Ayla Sussman and Ruth Peled - Scrolls from the Dead Sea - Washington, 1993, 143 pp, colour images; Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien - Schatze des Orients. Meisterwerke aus dem Miho Museum - Wien, 1999, 103 pp, colour images; Trudy S. Kawami - Ancient Iranian Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections - New York, 1999, 240 pp, colour images; Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem. Guide to the Collection - Tel Aviv, 1992, 128 pp, colour images. 4.42 kg total, 23.7 x 16.5 - 31 x 23.5 cm



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London, 1923, hardback with cloth covers, 25 pp, 36 monochrome plates; published by The Connoisseur collector magazine; bookplate to inner front of James Unitt Parkes. 585 grams, 22 x 28.5 cm



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James Unitt Parkes (ca 1846- d.1913) was a jeweller, silver merchant and goldsmith of J. Parkes & Co. London.

R.H. Blanchard - Cairo, 1909, leather binding with gold titling, 28 pp, 54 plates, monochrome. 515 grams, 24.5 x 18 cm



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J. Thompson & S.R. Canby - London, 2003, hardback with dustwrapper, 338 pp, colour. 2.5 kg, 25 x 31 cm



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Erich Lessing & Pascal Vernus - Dieux de l'Egypte - Paris, 1998, hardback with dustwrapper, 202 pp, colour; Metropolitan Museum of Art - Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids - New York, 1999, hardback with dustwrapper, 536 pp, colour; Cyril Aldred - Egyptian Art - London, 1980, card covers, 252 pp, monochrome; Paul Nicholson - Egyptian Faience & Glass - Princes Risborough, 1993, card covers, 80pp, monochrome; George Hart - Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses - London, 1986, card covers, 229 pp, line drawings; A. Gaddis & G. Seif - The Book of the Dead and Elysian Fields - Luxor, n.d., hardback with cloth covers, 36 colour plates. 6.16 kg total, 13 x 19.5 - 27 x 33 cm



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Werner Dutz, Sylvia Matheson, F. Ghani - Parsa Persepolis - Tehran, 1998, hardback with dustwrapper, 100 pp, English and Persian text, colour André Godard - The Art of Iran - New York, 1965, hardback with dustwrapper, 358 pp, colour and monochrome images; Layla Diba & Maryam Ekhtiar - Royal Persian Paintings - The Qajar Epoch - New York, 1999, card covers, 296 pp, colour and monochrome images; Mehrdad Bahar - Persepolis - n.d, 92 pp, English and Persian text, colour images. 5.9 kg total, 16 x 24 - 24.5 x 32 cm



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Beit Hatfusot - Light and Shadows - The Story of Iran and the Jews - Tel Aviv, 2010, hardback, 290 pp, Hebrew and English text; The Stone Edition: Chumash - The Torah, Haftaros and Five Megillos - New York, 1998, hardback, 1313 pp, Hebrew and English text; Bible Lands Museum - Guide to the Collection - Jerusalem, 1992, card covers, 128 pp, colour and monochrome; Antiquities & Fine Arts collection - card covers, Japanese text. 3.95 kg total, 16.5 x 23.5 - 23 x 28 cm



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W.M. Flinders Petrie - Amulets - Reprinted London 1994, hardback with dustwrapper, 58 pp, 54 monochrome plates; Gerry D. Scott III - Ancient Egyptian Art at Yale - New Haven, 1986, card covers, 228 pp, monochrome images; Peter Lacovara et al. - The Collector's Eye - Masterpieces of Egyptian Art from the Thalassic Collection, Ltd. - Atlanta, 2001, card coves, 170pp, colour images; Marsha Hill (ed) - Gifts for the Gods - Images from Egyptian Temples - New York, 2007, hardback with dustwrapper, 260 pp, colour images, line drawings; Ancient Art Works Speak, China - Egypt No.1 - hardback, silk covers, Chinese text, colour plates. 5.5 kg total, 21.6 x 28 - 24 x 32 cm



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