Ancient Art, Antiquities, Books, Natural History, Stamps & Coins
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Mixed Islamic and Orient Auction Auction Catalogues - 40 Titles
1979-1988 A.D.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
HOTEL DES VENTES/DROUOT 15 juin 1989 (Art d’Orient); 16 octobre 1979 (Art d’Islam et d’Orient, Art of the Islamic Lands); 5 decembre 1979 (Art d’Asie); 16 -17 octobre 1980 (Objets d’Art d’Extreme Orient; Archeologie Greco-Romaine et Orientale, Art de l’Islam et de l’Inde, Egypte, Art Negre, Antiquites Pre-Hispaniques); 25 juin 1980 (Art d’Orient et d’Extreme Orient); 9-10 decembre 1980 (Art d’Asie, Antiques, Art Orientaliste, Art d’Orient); 4-6 Avril 1981 (Objets d’Art d’Orient et d’Extreme Orient; Ceramique de la Chine, Bronze Archaiques Chinois, Art Islamique, Tapis d’Orient, Jades Archaiques de l’Ancienne Collection Paul Pelliot); 5 Mai 1981 (Art de l’Islam); 26 Mai 1981 (Art Islamique, Extreme Orient, Tapis d’Orient); 24 juin 1981 (Collection de M.l’Ambassadeur X…II Vente, Appartenant a divers amateurs); 13 novembre 1981 (Art de l’Islam, Peintures Persanes); 30 novembre 1981 (Collection Anatole France A divers amateurs); 23 juin 1982 (Art de l’Islam); 14 mars 1983 (Art d’Orient); 23 mars 1984 (Quatre pages du Siyar-e Nabi, Vie du Prophete); 14 mai 1984 (Art d’Orient et de l’Islam); 8 octobre 1984 (Art musulman); 7 decembre 1984 (Orient, Extreme-Orient, Archeologie, Art Musulman); 18 mars 1985 (Art d’Orient, Extreme-Orient, Archeologie, Art Musulman, Cinq pages du Siyar-e Nabi, Vie du Prophete); 5 juin 1985 (Art d’Orient, Archeologie, Art Musulman); 12 mai 1986 (Art de l’Islam); 5 mai 1987 (Art de l’Islam & miniatures de l’Inde); 1er decembre1987 (Archeologie, Art d’Extreme Orient); ADER PICARD TAJAN 6 novembre 1981 (Art Islamique de la collection Albert Aublet); 23 avril 1982 (Art Islamique); 11 mai 1982 (miniatures orientales); 12 mai 1982 (Art d’Orient); 29 octobre 1982 (Art Islamique, Art Antique); 10 mars 1983 (Bibliotheque de Monsieur X…, L’Orient Musulman, Art Islamique); 02 mars 1984 (Art Islamique); 22 juin 1984 (Art Islamique);16 novembre 1984 (Collection de Madame R. et a divers amateurs, Art Islamique); 29-30-31 octobre 1985 (Art Islamique, Livres); 3-4 mars 1986 (Art Islamique, Tableaux de la collection F.CH.R.); 27-28 Octobre 1986 (Art Islamique, Tableaux de l’ancienne collection A.Boppe, Ambassadeur de France et provenant de diverses collections); 9 mars 1987 (Art Islamique); 24 juin 1987 (Art Islamique, Tableaux dessins et gravures de la collection F.CH.R., Ambassadeur de France et provenant de diverses collections); 16 novembre 1987 (Art Islamique, Tableaux Orientalistes des XVIII et XIX siecles); 16 decembre 1987 (Art Islamique); 7 mars 1988 (Art Islamique, Tableaux Orientalistes). 5.6 kg total, 18 x 24 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman. -
Roman Military Equipment from the Punic Wars to the Fall of Rome by M.C. Bishop & J.C.N. Coulston
2006 A.D.Estimate: £10 - 20 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Bishop M.C.& Coulston J.C.N., Roman Military Equipment from the Punic Wars to the Fall of Rome, Oxford, 2006, paperback, 322pp., 151 b/w ill., 6 col.pls. 844 grams, 24.3 x 17.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Ear-Rings in Roman Britain by Lindsay Allason-Jones
1989 A.D.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
BAR British Series 201, 1989, paperback, 154 pp, 36 plates, 24 maps, black-and-white illustrations. 637 grams, 29.5 x 20.7 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
The Golden Deer of Eurasia, Scthian and Sarmatian Treasures from the Russian Steppes
2000 A.D.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
The Metropolitan Museum, The Golden Deer of Eurasia, Scthian and Sarmatian Treasures from the Russian Steppes, Yale-New York, 2000, hardcover, 303pp, 214 col.pls., 100 figs. in col. & b/w. 2.15 kg, 31.3 x 23.8 cm
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Books on World Archaeology and Treasure - 7 Titles
1975-1995 A.D.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles by Anne Savage, and others. 11.5 kg total, 28 x 22.5 - 34 x 24.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
A Corpus of Inscribed Egyptian Funerary Cones by N. de Garis Davies
1957 A.D.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Hardback, Oxford, 611 black-and-white illustrations with an index of names of persons, titles and epithets. 1.98 kg, 45.3 x 35.5 cm
From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s. -
Books on Ancient Greek Antiquities, Ancient Art and Archaeology of Thera - 8 Titles
1968-1984 A.D.Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
S. Marinatos - Excavations at Thera Vol I - Athens, 1968, card covers, 58 pp, fold-out image; Vol II - Athens, 1969, card covers, 54 pp, 41 plattes, fold-out plans; Vol III - Athens, 1970, card covers, 68 pp, 62 plates, fold-out maps; Vol IV - Athens, 1971, card covers, 54 pp, 126 plates; Vol V - Athens, 1973 reprint, card covers, 7 pp, 104 plates; Vol VI - Athens, 1975, card covers, 60pp, 109 plates, fold-out frieze; Vol VII - Athens, 1976, card covers, 38 pp, 66 plates; N. Marinatos - Art and Religion in Thera: Reconstructing a Bronze Age Society - Athen, 1984, card covers, 128 pp, colour. 3.07 kg total, 23.6 x 17.1 cm each
Property of a London, UK, gentleman. -
Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum V - Early Dynastic Objects by A.J. Spencer
1980 A.D.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Spencer, A.J., Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum V - Early Dynastic Objects, London, 1980, hardcover, 110pp., 80 BW pls. 1.86 Kg, 36.5 x 28.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
How to Read Egyptian by Mark Collier & Bill Manley
2005 A.D.Estimate: £10 - 20 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Collier, Manley, B., How to read Egyptian, Hieroglyphs, London, 1998, hardcover, 179pp., B/W Ph. and figs. 535 grams, 24 x 16.2 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
The Burrell Collection - Western Asiatic Antiquities by Edgar Peltenburg
1991 A.D.Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Peltenburg, E., The Burrell Collection, Western Asiatic Antiquities, Edinburgh, 1991, hardcover, 156pp., 129 photos, 11 in colour. 624 grams, 25.6 x 18 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Byzantine Bronze Ring with Religious Scene
Circa 7th-8th century A.D.Estimate: £150 - 200 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £75
Narrow hoop with facets to outer face, disc bezel with twelve robed figures (apostles?) below swept wings, two flanking nimbate angels and median vesica with Mary Theotokos. 8.94 grams, 26.29 mm overall, 21.17 x 19.92 mm internal diameter (approximate size British V 1/2, USA 10 3/4, Europe 24.4, Japan 23)
Private collection of Kal Noselson, New York, acquired between 1976 and the late 1990s; thence by descent. -
Byzantine Iron Ring with Silver Inscribed Bezel
Circa 6th-7th century A.D.Estimate: £100 - 140 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Comprising a narrow D-section hoop with segmented projections, cup bezel with silver panel to upper face, inscribed 'ΗΛΙΑΔΕΒΟΗΘΙ' (Iliad ...). 2.65 grams, 27.68 mm overall, 18.66 x 19.26 mm internal diameter (approximate size British R, USA 8 1/2, Europe 18 3/4, Japan 18)
Private collection of Kal Noselson, New York, acquired between 1976 and the late 1990s; thence by descent.
