Ancient Art, Antiquities, Books, Natural History & Coins

Designed by Alfred Mills, printed in London, original leather binding, 96 pages with black-and-white illustrations; part of a series of Alfred Mills’s Miniature Historic Library. 35.2 grams, 64 mm high



Private collection, UK.

CHRISTIE'S: Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 19 September 2006; The Hodroff Collection, New York, 24 January 2007; Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the J & J Collection, Part IV, New York, 22 March 2007; Chinese Export Art, New York, 23 January 2007; Art for the Way of Tea: An Important Private Collection, New York, 20 March 2007; Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 22 March 2007; Fine Chinese Ceramics Jades and Works of Art, New York, 19 September 2007; The Meriem Collection: Important Chinese Snuff Bottles, New York, 19 September 2007 (2 copies); The Hodroff Collection, Part II, New York, 23 January 2008 (2 copies); Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 19 March 2008; The Meriem Collection: Important Chinese Snuff Bottles, Part II, New York, 19 March 2008; The Imperial Wardrobe: Fine Chinese Costume and Textiles from the Linda Wrigglesworth Collection, New York, 19 March 2008; Masterworks of Ancient and Imperial China, New York, 17 September 2008; Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the J & J Collection, Part V, New York, 17 September 2008; Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 17 September 2008; Chinese Export Art, New York, 21 January 2009; The Hodroff Collection, Part III, New York, 21 January 2009; Fine Chinese Art from the Arthur M. Sacker Collections, New York, 18 March 2009; Indian and Southeast Asian Art, Including Highlights from the Star Collection, New York, 20 March 2009; Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Including Property from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, 14-15 Setember 2009; The William F. Reilly Collection, New York, 14 October 2009; The Collection of Benjamin F. Edwards III, New York, 26 January 2010; SOTHEBY'S: Chinese and Japanese Decorative Works of Art, New York, 2-3 October 1985; Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, New York, 21 September 2006; Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, Volume One, New York, 19 March 2007; The Concordia House Collection, New York, 19 March 2007; Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, Volume Two, New York, 20 march 2007; Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, New York, 18 September 2007; The Arts of Buddha, New York, 21 September 2007; Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, New York, 18 march 2008; Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, New York, 16 September 2008; Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, New York, 16 September 2009. 29 kg total, 27.2 x 21 cm each



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

L.D. Caskey - Catalogue of Greek and Roman Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1925, hardcover, 233 pp, black and white images; Carl Blumel - Die Klassisch Griechischen Skulpturen Der Staatlichen Museen Zu Berlin, 1966, cardcover, 111 pp, 204 black and white images; Alberto Busignani - Gli Eroi Di Riace Daimon E Techne, 1981, hardcover with dustwrapper, 159 pp, colour and black and white images; Humfry Payne & Gerard Young - Archaic Marble Sculpture from the Acropolis, 1950, hardcover, 79 pp, 140 plates. 4.89 kg total, 30 x 22 - 33.6 x 26 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Alan Moorehead - The Blue Nile, 1983, card cover, 304 pp, black and white images; I.E.S. Edwards - Tutankhamun: His Tomb and Its Treasures, New York, 1976, hardcover with dustwrapper, black and white and colour images; John Baines & Jaromir Malek - Atlas of Ancient Egypt, New York, hardcover with dustwrapper, 24 pp, colour images; Steffen Wenig - The Woman in Egyptian Art, New York, 1969, hardcover with dustwrapper, 112 pp, colour and black and white images; Time-Life Books - What Life Was Like on the Banks of the Nile, Egypt 3050-30 BC, 1997, hardcover with dustwrapper, 192 pp, colour images; David P. Silverman (ed.) - Ancient Egypt, New York, 1997, hardcover with dustwrapper, 256 pp, colour images; Treasures of Tutankhamun, exhibition catalogue, 1976, cardcover, 176 pp, colour and black and white images. 7.63 kg total, 24.9 x 19 - 30.5 x 24 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 25 March 1975; Chinese Porcelain, 29 April 1975; Oriental Ceramics and Works of Art, 13 May 1975; Fine Chinese Ceramics and Bronzes, 8 July 1975; South-East Asian and Chinese Ceramics, also Works of Art, 22 July 1975; Oriental Ceramics and Works of Art, 23 September 1975; Oriental Ceramics and Works of Art, 4 November 1975; Chinese Works of Art and Ch'Ing Porcelain, 25 November 1975; Chinese Works of Art and Ch'Ing Porcelain, 25 November 1975; Chinese Works of Art and Oriental Ceramics, 22 December 1975; Chinese Ch'Ing Porcelain, 13 January 1976; Oriental Ceramics and Works of Art, 27 January 1976; Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 9 March 1976; Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 23 March 1976; Important Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Works of Art, 6 April 1976; Oriental Ceramics and Works of Art, 20 April 1976; Oriental Ceramics and Works of Art, 4 May 1976; Chinese Works of Art, also Ming and Ch'Ing Porcelain, 18 May 1976; Oriental Ceramics and Works of Art, 1 June 1976; Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 6 July 1976; Oriental Ceramics and Works of Art, 20 July 1976; Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 28 September 1976; Chinese Works of Art and Oriental Ceramics, 12 October 1976; Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 2 November 1976; Oriental Ceramics and Works of Art, 30 November 1976; Fine Chinese Works of Art, Pottery and Porcelain, 14 December 1976; Chinese Works of Art, also Ming and Later Ceramics, 18 January 1977; Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 15 February 1977; Oriental Ceramics and Works of Art, 15 March 1977. 3.75 kg total, 24.4 x 18.1 cm each



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Geoff Emberling - Nubia, Ancient Kingdoms of Africa, New York, 2011, cardcover, black and white and colour images; Anna Maria Donadoni Roveri - Museo Egizio, Torino, 72 pp, black and white and colour images; Giorgio Ferrero - Egypt, History and Treasures of an Ancient Civilization, New York, 2010, cardcover, 207 pp, colour images; Exhibition Catalogue - Neferut Net Kemit: Egyptian Art from the Brooklyn Museum,1983-1984, cardcover, in English and Japanese, black and white and colour images; Herman De Meulenaere and Pierre MacKay - Mendes II, 1976, hardcover, 243 pp, 40 plates; Exhibition Catalogue - Eternal Egypt, Masterworks of Ancient Art from the British Museum, 2001-2004, cardcover, 288 pp, colour images; Flornce Dunn Friedman (ed.) - Gifts of The Nile, Ancient Egyptian Faience, 1998, hardcover with dustwrapper, 288 pp, colour and black and white images. 7.6 kg total, 24.2 x 21.7 - 31.2 x 24 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

N.Rodgers - Everyday Life in Ancient Greece - London, 2010, hardback, 256 pp, colour; N. McCarty - Troy: The Myth and Reality behind the Epic Legend - London, 2004, hardback with dustwrapper, 125 pp, colour; J. Boardman (ed) - Oxford History of Classical Art - Oxfod, 1993, hardback with dustwrapper, 406 pp, colour and monochrome; Metropolitan Museum of Art - Greek Art of the Aegean Islands - New York, 1979, card covers, 238 pp, monochrome; M. Robertson - A Shoerter History of Greek Art - Cambridge, 1981, card covers, 240 pp, monochrome; G.H. Chase - Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art - Boston, 1972, card covers, 290 pp, monochrome; J. Crossland & D. Constance - macedonian Greece -New York, 1982, hadback with card covers, 189 pp, monochrome. 7.2 kg total, 21.5 x 17.6 - 30.5 x 23.5 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

SOTHEBY'S: Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 14 May 1997; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 6 June 1988; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 17 October 1988; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 8-9 May 1989; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 12 May 1998; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 7 December 1998; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 16 October 1990; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 27 October 1993; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 17 May 1994; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 25 October 1994; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 22 October 1996; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 17 November 1997; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics & Works of Art, Amsterdam, 11 May 1999; Chinese and Japanese Works of Art, London, 10 March 2005; Chinese & Japanese Works of Art, London, 9-10 November 2005; Japanese Works of Art, Prints and Paintings, London, 10 November 2005; CHRISTIE'S: Chinese and Japanese Ceramics, Works of Art, Japanese Prints, Amsterdam, 31 May and 1 June 1988; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 19-20 October 1988; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 7 December 1988; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 7 December 1988; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 3 May 1989; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 10 October 1989; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics, Furniture and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 19 May 1993; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics, Furniture and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 26 October 1993; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 27 October 1994; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 17 May 1995; Chinese, Japanese, indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art, Amsterdam, 18 October 1995; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 8 May 1996; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 19 November 1996; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 13 May 1997; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 18 November 1997; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 13 May 1998; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 8 December 1998; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 12 May 1999; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 19 October 1999; Japanese Art & Design, South Kensington, 9 November 2011; Japanese & Korean Art, 21 March 2012; Japanese Art & Design, South kensington, 16 May 2012; Masterful Exuberance: Artistic Craftsmanship of Imperial Japan, South Kensington,18 May 2012; The Japanese Aesthetic, South Kensington, 7 November 2012; Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 28 November 2012; Japanese Art & Design, New York, 20 March 2013; Japanese Art & Design, New York, 18 March 2014; The Joseph Collection of Japanese Art, king Street, 11 November 2015; Aesthetic Intuition: Collecting Japanese Art in Post War London, King Street, 11 November 2015. 22 kg total, 25.5 x 20 - 29.8 x 23.1 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

CHRISTIE’S: Classical, Egyptian and Western Asiatic Antiquities on Tuesday February 24, 1970; Important Classical Antiquities, Saturday, May 5, 1979; The Castle Ashby Vases, Wednesday 2 July 1980; Fine Antiquities, Tuesday 10 December 1985; The Arundel Marbles and other sculpture from Fawley Court and Hall Barn, Tuesday 10 December 1985; Fine Antiquities, Wednesday 16 July 1986; Fine Antiquities Friday 10 July 1987; Classical sculpture formerly from Marbury Hall, Friday 10 July 1987; Fine Antiquities, Wednesday 8 June 1988; The Collection of the Late Henning Throne-Holst, Wednesday 8 June 1988; The Erlenmeyer collection of Cretan Seals, Monday 5 June 1989; Fine Antiquities, Tuesday 6 June 1989; The Erlenmeyer collection of ancient Near Eastern Stamp Seals and Amulets, Tuesday 6 June 1989; Fine Antiquities, Tuesday 12 December 1989; Fine Antiquities, 11 July 1990; Fine Antiquities, including the Mrs. Albert D. Lasker Collection, Wedsneday, 12 December 1990; The Alfred Wolkenberg Collection of Ancient Glass, Tuesday 9 July 1991; Fine Antiquities, Wednesday 10 July 1991; Fine Antiquities, Monday 2 December 1991; Fine Antiquities, Wednesday 8 July 1992; Fine Antiquities, Wedsneday 9 December 1992; A private collection of Important Greek Vases, Wednesday 28 April 1993; Ancient Egyptian Glass and Fayence Part III, Wednesday 8 December 1993; Fine Antiquities, Wednesday 7 July 1993; Ancient Egyptian Glass Inlays Part II, Wednesday 7 July 1993; Fine Antiquities, Wednesday 8 December 1993; Fine Antiquities, Wednesday 6 July 1994; The ‘Canford’ Assyrian reliefs, Wednesday 6 July 1994; Fine Antiquities, Wedsneday 7 December 1994; Fine Antiquities, Wedsneday 5 July 1995; The Lansdowne Sculptures , the Property of the Earl of Shelburne, Wedsneday 5 July 1995; Fine Antiquities, Wednesday 13 December 1995; Fine Antiquities, Wednesday 3 July 1996; A private collection of Greek Vases and Terracottas, Wednesday 3 July 1996; Fine Antiquities, Wedsneday 11 December 1996; Fine Antiquities, Wedsneday 21 April 1999; Important Antiquities, Wedsneday 20 October 1999; Antiquities, Thursday 5 October 2000; Fine Antiquities, Wedsneday 25 April 2001; Fine Antiquities, Wedsneday 7 November 2001. 16.7 kg total, 25.2 x 20 - 26.1 x 21 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Bill Wyman and Richard Havers - Bill Wyman's Treasure Islands, Britain's History Uncovered, 2005, hardback with dustjacket, 299 pp, colour images; The World Atlas of Divination, London, 1992, hardback with dustjacket, 224 pp, colour images; British History Encyclopedia. From early man to present day, 1999, hardcover with dustjacket, 256 pp, colour images; The Chronicles of The War of the Roses, Surrey, 1996, hardcover with dustjacket, 320 pp, colour images. 5.57 kg total, 27 x 20.5 - 30.5 x 23 cm



Property of a Nottinghamshire, UK, gentleman.

Reeves, N., The Complete Tutankhamun. The King. The Tomb. The Royal Treasure, London, 2008, 224 pp, card covers, colour and monochrome; Jeffreys, D.G., Smith. H.S., The Anubieion at Saqqâra I. The Settlement and the Temple Precinct, London, 1988, 115 pp, 51 plates, hardback, monochrome; Reeves, N., Wilkinson, R.H., The Complete Valley of the Kings, London, 1997, 224 pp, hardback with dust jacket, monochrome; Lohwasser, A., The Kushite Cemetery of Sanam: A Non-Royal Burial Ground of the Nubian Capital, c. 800-600 BC, London, 2010, 150 pp, card covers, monochrome. 3.59 kg total, 23.5 x 15.6 - 31.8 x 25.6 cm



Ex libris a Hertfordshire gentleman.

Grajetzki, W., The coffin of Zemathor and other rectangular coffins of the late Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period, London, 2010, 124 pp, card covers, monochrome; Miniaci, G., Rishi Coffins and the funerary culture of Second Intermediate Period Egypt, London, 2011, 318 pp, 8 plates, card covers, colour and monochrome; Reiser-Haslauer, E., Uschebti I, Kunsthistorisches Mueum Wien Ägyptisch-Orientalische Sammlung, Mainz-Rhein, 1990, 157 loose leaf pp, card covers, monochrome. 3.33 kg total, 21 x 29.7 - 22 x 29.7 cm



Ex libris a Hertfordshire gentleman.