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LOT 1138
A Collection of Ancient Art Books from Japan - 4 Titles
20TH CENTURY A.D.
8 1/4 x 10 3/8 - 9 x 12 3/8 in. (5.1 kg total, 21 x 26.5 - 23 x 31.5 cm).
Dialogue Between the Ancient World and the Modern era - Tokyo, 1969, hardback with cloth covers, 288 pp, monochrome and colour;
Treasures of the Orient - Tokyo, 1979, card covers, 274 pp, fold-out diagrams, monochrome; Shinji Fukai - Persian Glass- New York, 1977, hardback in slipcase, 220 pp, colour and monochrome, line drawings; Tian Lu Monday - In Search of the Source of Beauty - Tokyo, 1965, hardback with transparent dustwrapper, 351 pp, foldout map, monochrome. [4, No Reserve]
Property of a North West London gentleman.
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P.R.S. Moorey - Catalogue of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum
1971 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Oxford, 1971, hardback with dustwrapper, 341 pp, 85 monochrome plates. 1.9 kg total, 22.5 x 28.5 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman. -
A Collection of Books on Ancient Glass - 7 Titles
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Takashi Taniichi & Yochiro Kudo - Glass Beads in the World - Tokyo, 1997, hardback with dustwrapper, 125 pp, colour; Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum - Brilliant Vessels of Ancient Near east - Glass Metal and Lustre Pottery - n.d., card covers, 36 pp, colour; Miho Museum DIary 2002 - spiral bound, 55 pp, colour; Sidney Goldstein - Fakes and Forgeries of Ancient Glass - Liege, 1979, card covers, 9 pp, monochrome (offprint from Annales du Congrès); Karol B. Wright - Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity - Los Angeles, 2011, card covers, 136 pp, colour; Corning Museum of Glass - Glass in the Ancient World - New York, 1997. card covers, 298 pp, 609 monochrome plates; Giovanni Mariacher - Glass from Antiquity to the Renaissance - London, 1970, hardback with cloth covers, 156 pp, colour plates. 2.8 kg total, 13.5 x 19.5 - 21.7 x 20.5 cm
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Benet's Artefacts Books and Coins of England [4]
2015-2021 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Comprising: Hammond, B., Benet's, Medieval Artefacts of England and the United Kingdom, 2015; Hammond, B., Benet's, Roman Artefacts of England and the United Kingdom, 2016; Hammond, A., Benet's Artefacts of England and the United Kingdom, Fourth Edition, 2021; Coins of England & The United Kingdom, Pre-Decimal Issues and Decimal Issues, 2017. 4.74 kg total, 22.2 x 14.5 cm each
Property of a UK gallery.