Ancient Art, Antiquities, Books, Natural History & Coins

H.C. Evand & W.D. Wixom - The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine era AD 843-12161 - New York, 1997, hardback with dustwrapper, 574 pp, colour; A. W. Carr& L.J. Morrocco - A Byzantine Masterpiece Recovered the Thirteenth Century Murals of Lysi, Cyprus - Austin, 1991, card covers, 159 pp, colour and monochrome; D. Buckton (ed) - Tjhe Treasury of San Marco, Venice - Milan, 1984, card coers, 337 pp, colour; Walter Art Gallery - Early Christian and Byzantine Art - Baltimore, 1947, card covers, 172 pp, 1221 monochrome plates; J. Beckwith - The Art of Constantinople - London, 1961, card covers, 184 pp, monochrome; Dumbarton Oaks - Handbook of the Byzantine Collection - Washington, 1967, card covers, 125 pp, 376 monochrome plates. 7.66 kg total, 23 x 15.1 - 31.5 x 24 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

AA.VV., Essays in honor of Dorothy Kent Hill, The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1977, pp.136, b/w ill.; E. Langlotz, Fruehgriechische Bildhauerschulen, mit 100 Tafeln im Verlag, only Text, Nueernberg, 1927, pp.203; R.V.Schoder, S.J., Ancient Greece from the Air, London, 1974, pp.256, with 140 Colour Photographs and 138 ground plans of ancient sites; J.Ober, C.W.Hedrick, The Birth of Democracy, An Exhibition celebrating the 2500th anniversary of Democracy, at the National Archives, Washington, D.C., Athens, 1993, pp.179, b/w & col. Ill.; AA.VV., National Archaeological Museum, Athens, 1979, pp.96, col.ill.; C.Doumas, Santorini, A guide to the Island and its Archaeological Museum, Athens, 1997, pp.128, mainly col.ill. and some in b/w; A.B. Tataki, Rhodes, Lindos-Kamiros-Filermos, The Palace of the Grand Masters and the Museum, Athens, 1995, pp.128, map and col.ill.; B.Petrakos, National Museum, Sculpture-Bronzes-Vases, Athens, 1993, pp.191, col.ill.; J. Boardman, The Greeks Overseas, Their Early Colonies and Trade, London, 1999, pp.304, b/w ill. 4.55 kg total, 24 x 16 - 28 x 21.6 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

BERWALD ORIENTAL ART: Eternal Images, Chinese Ceramic Sculpture from the Han to Tang Dynasties, 8-26 November 1999; Spring 2008, New York (2 copies); Kangxi Biscuit Porcelain from Private Collections, London (no date); Facing East, Expressions in Chinese Art, London, (no date), (2copies); Shapes and Glazes of the Tang, London, (no date), (2 copies); ROGER KEVERNE: Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and Ceramics, Winter Exhibition 1999; Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and Ceramics, Summer Exhibition 2000; Winter Exhibition 2003; Winter Exhibition 2004; Summer Exhibition 2005; Summer Exhibition 2006; Summer Exhibition 2007; Winter Exhibition 2007; Summer Exhibition 2008; CHRISTIE'S: The Lundgren Collection, London, 18 November 1997; Asian Decorative Arts, South Kensington, 22 March 2001; Chinese Ceramics and Chinese Export Ceramics and Works of Art, London, 19 June 2001; Furniture and Works of Art 'Il Paradiso', London, 11 December 2001; SOTHEBY'S: The Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection of Inro and lacquer, London, 18 June 1997; Arts D'Asie, Paris, 10 June 2014; LEMPERTZ: Asian Art, Cologne, 3-5 June 2015; Asian Art, Cologne, 13-14 June 2014; WOOLLEY & WALLIS: Asian Art II, Salisbury, 22 May 2014; Asian Art I, Salisbury, 21 May 2014; ESKENAZI: Chinese Ceramic Vessels 500-1000 AD, November 2001; Two Rare Porcelain Fish Jars of the 14th and 16th Centuries, November 2002; TAJAN: Arts D'Asie, 11 June 2012; ARTCURIAL: Art D'Asie, Paris, 9 June 2014; UPPSALA AUKTIONSKAMMARE: Internationell Kvalitetsauktion, 13 June 2014; CAMBI: The Splendor of Chinese Corals, 28 May 2014; STOCKHOLMS AUKTIONSVERK: Fine Art & Antiques - Oriental Ceramics & Works of Art, 6 June 2013; DOYLE: Asian Works of Art, New York, 12 September 2011; ROB MICHIELS: Asian Arts & European Ceramics, 6-7 October 2018; VANDERVEN ORIENTAL ART: Beasts & Creatures, 2017; A & J SPEELMAN: Buddhist Works of Art, London 1998. 27.95 kg total, 26.6 x 21 - 30.5 x 22 cm



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Christie's sale 7017 catalogue, card covers, 316pp, 419 lots including figurines, jewellery and images of animals, etc. 1.24 kg, 26.7 x 21 cm



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SOTHEBY’S: Oriental ivories, Shibayama and Works of Art, Thursday 15th February, 1979; Belle collection de porcelaines de Chine d’emaux cloisonnes et de sculptures en corail, dimanche 4 mars 1984 a 11th et 16th; Fine Chinese Decorative Works of Art, New York, April 7th and 8th, 1988; Chinese Decorative Arts and Export Porcelain, Friday 28th October-Tuesday 1st November 1988; Belle collection de porcelaines de Chine, dimanche 5 mars 1989; Chinese Export Porcelain and decorative works of art, Tuesday 9th and Friday 12th May 1989; Chinese Export Porcelain from the Collection of Jorge Getulio Veiga, Tuesday 31st October 1989; Fine Chinese Export Porcelain from the Collection of Angelo Castelo Branco Cerqueira Caldas, Tuesday 8th May 1990; Chinese Export Porcelain and works of art, Tuesday 29th May 1990; Fine Chinese Ceramic and Works of Art, Tuesday, May 28, 1991; Fine Chinese and Korean Ceramics and Works of Art, Tuesday 10th December 1991; Chinese Export Porcelain, Friday, October 23, 1992; Chinese Export Porcelain and Works of art, Tuesday 3rd November 1992; Fine Chinese Ceramics, Furniture and Works of Art, Wednesday March 19, 1997; Fine Chinese Ceramics, Furniture and Works of Art, Tuesday September 23, 1997; Fine Chinese Works of Art, March 23, 1998; Fine Chinese Ceramics, Furniture and Works of Art, Thursday September 17, 1998; Chinese Export, Porcelain, Paintings, Silver and Works of Art, January 20, 1999; Fine Chinese Works of Art and Snuff Bottles, March 22 and 23, 1999; Important Chinese Furniture, Tuesday March 23, 1999; Fine Chinese Works of art, September 15, 1999; Property from the Estate of Brooke Astor, 24 Sep 2012; Art d’Asie, 12 Juin 2018; Saturday at Sotheby’s Asian Art, 15 September 2018; Chinese Works of Art from the collection of Emil Hultmark; property from the collection of Nelson & Happy Rockfeller, A Collecting Legacy, 18 January 2019; LEMPERTZ: Asiatische Kunst, Auktion 860, Koln 11/12 Juni 2004; Asiatische Kunst, Auktion 865, Koln 26/27 Nov. 2004; Asiatische Kunst, Auktion 875, Koln 31 Mai/1 Juni 2005; Asian art, Chinese Jades of a private collection 10 June 2008 Auktion 926; Asiatische Kunst, Auktion 951, Koln 11/12 Dezember 2009; Asiatische Kunst-Asian Art, Auktion 964, Koln 11/12 Juni 2010; Asiatische Kunst, Auktion 973, Koln 10/11 Dezember 2010; 23 kg total, 21 x 20 - 29.6 x 23 cm



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E.L.B. Terrace & H.G. Fischer - Treasures of Egyptian Art from the Cairo Museum - London, 1970, hardback with cloth covers, 188 pp, colour; C. Rossi - The Pyramids and the Sphinx - Cairo, 2005, card covers, 160 pp, colour; M. Page-Gasser &A.B. Wiese - Ägypten Augenblick der Ewigkeit - Mainz, 1998, hardback 340 pp, colour; The Art of Ancient Egypt - London, 1940, hardback, library binding, 22 pp, 333 colour and monochrome plates; Royal Academy of Arts - 5000 Years of Egyptian Art - London, 1962, card covers, 46 pp, 40 monochrome plates, fold-out map; R.A. Fazzinin et al - Art for Eternity: Masterworks from Ancient Egypt - Brooklyn, 1999, card covers, 160 pp, colour; W. Stenson Smith - Ancient Egypte - Boston, 1960, card covers, 215 pp, monochrome. 5.66 kg total, 23 x 15 - 27.5 x 20 cm



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Katharine Reynolds Brown - Frankish Art in American Collections, 1984, cardcovers, 31 pp, black and white images; Ruoert Bruce-Mitford - The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial, A Handbook, second edition, 1972, cardcovers, 103 pp, 34 black and white plates; James Campbell (ed.) - The Anglo-Saxons, 1991, cardcovers, 272 pp, colour and black and white images; James Campbell (ed.) - The Anglo-Saxons, 1982, hardcover with dustwrapper, 272 pp, colour and black and white images; Dal Mille Al Mille, Tesori E Popoli Dal Mar Nero, in Italian, 1995, cardcovers, 249 pp, colour and black and white images. 4.37 kg total, 24.2 x 17.1 - 28 x 25 cm



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P.R.S. Moorey - Ur 'Of the Chaldees', A Revised and Updated Edition of Sir Leonard Woolley's Excavations at Ur, 1982, hardcover with dustjacket, 272 pp, black and white and colour images; The Anatolian Civilisations I, Prehistoric / Hittite / Early Iron Age, Istanbul May 22-October 30, 1983, cardcovers, 311 pp, black and white images; The Anatolian Civilisations II, Greek / Roman / Byzantine, Istanbul May 22-October 30, 1983, cardcovers, 199 pp, black and white images; The Anatolian Civilisations III, Seljuk / Ottoman, Istanbul, May 22-October 30, 1983, cardcovers, 323 pp, black and white images; Syria, A Living History, October 15, 2016-February 26, 2017, cardcovers, 48 pp, colour images; Ebla to Damascus, Art and Archaeology of Ancient Syria, 1985, cardcovers, 542 pp, colour and black and white images; Richard L. Zettler and Lee Horne (eds.) - Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur, 1998, cardcovers, 195 pp, black and white and colour images. 6.24 kg total, 24.2 x 17 - 28 x 21.6 cm



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B. Barr-Sharrar, The Derveni Krater, Masterpiece of Classical Greek Metalwork, Princeton, 2008, pp.240, 32 colour plates; J.Neils, J.H.Oakley, Striving for excellence: Ancient Greek Childhood and the Olympic spirit, New York, 2004, pp.64, full colour catalogue; D.M.Buitron, Attic Vase Painting in New England Collections, Harvard, 1972, pp.152, b/n ill.; J.H. Betts, J.T. Hooker, J.R. Green, Studies in honour of T.B.L. Webster, volume II, Bristol, 1988, b/w ill. 3.31 kg total, 26 x 19 - 30 x 25 cm



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R. Deutsch and M. Heltzer - Forty New Ancient West Semitic Inscriptions, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, 1994, hardcover with dustjacket, 100 pp, black-and-white images; G.P.F. Van Den Boorn - Oud Iran. Pre-Islamitische Kunst en Voorwerpen in Het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Te Leiden, cardcovers, 128 pp, colour and black-and-white images; Andrew S. Ackerman & Susan L. Braunstein - Israel in Antiquity. The Jewish Museum / New York, 1982, card covers, 136 pp, colour and black-and-white images. 1.39 kg total, 24.5 x 17.7 - 28 x 21.5 cm



Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.

Hardback with leather spines, vol 1 with 696 pp, translated by John Edward Lee, 2nd volume containing 206 full-page black and white plates of ancient artefacts. 2.72 kg total, 24 x 16.5 cm each



Originally held in Nottingham Central Library, purchased directly by Ian Wilkinson in 2020. Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985.

The Lake Dwellings of Switzerland and Other Parts of Europe by Dr Ferdinand Keller is a foundational archaeological work documenting prehistoric stilt-house settlements, primarily from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages around Swiss lakes. It covers findings across Switzerland, including detailed descriptions of artefacts and building techniques, translated and expanded by John Edward Lee.

G. Bovini & M. Pierpaoli - Ravenna: Treasures of Light - Ravenna, 1991, hardback with dustwrapper, 143 pp, colour; J. Lowden - The Jaharis Gospel Lectionary: The Story of a Byzantine Book - New York, 2009, hardback with dustwrapper, 130 pp, colour; G.W. Bowerstock, P. Brown & O. Grabar - Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World - London, 1999, hardback with dustwrapper, 780 pp; E. Kitzinger - Byzabtine Art in the Making - Cambridge, 1980, card covers, 171 pp, monochrome; J. Spier - Byzantium and the West: Jrewelry in the First Millennium - New York, 2012, 207 pp, colour; Victoria & Albert Museum - Late Antiqu and Byzantine Art - London, 1963, card covers, 32 pp, monochrome. 5.71 kg total, 21.2 x 13.7 - 30.5 x 25 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.