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LOT 1168
A Collection of Books on Ancient Art - 4 Titles
1993-2000 A.D.
8 1/4 x 10 7/8 - 9 1/4 x 12 3/8 in. (4.47 kg total, 21 x 27.5 - 23.5 x 31.5 cm).
The George Ortiz Collection: Antiquities from Ur to Byzantium - Moscow, 1993, card covers, 280 pp, colour and monochrome; Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Fall 1998 - New York, 1998, card covers, 79 pp; Ancient Art from the Shumei Family Collection - New York, 1997, hardback with dustwrapper, 210 pp, colour; Robin Symes - Bull Leapers to Picasso / Hardstones from the Ancient World - New York, 2000, card covers in slip case, colour. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of a North West London gentleman.
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A Collection of Books on Art of the Near East and Persia - 5 Titles
1963-1999 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Roman Ghirshman - Perse: Proto-Iraniens, Medes, Achaemenides - Paris, 1963, hardback with dustwrapper, 441 pp, maps, colour and monochrome images; James Allan - Islamic Ceramics - Oxford, 1991, card covers, 79 pp, map, colour images; Yosef Garfinkel - The Yarmukians - Jerusalem, 1999, card covers, 96 pp, colour images; Ariadne Galleries - Idols: Beginning of Abstract Form - catalogue, New York, 190, card covers, 123 pp, monochrome images; Y.H.Safadi - Islamic Calligraphy - London, 1978, card covers, 144 pp, monochrome images. 3.9kg total. 15 x 21 - 22 x 28cm
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A Collection of Books on Ancient Glass - 5 Titles
1975-1999 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
S.B. Mathieson - Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery - New Haven, 1980, card covers, 152 pp, monochrome and colour; Fortuna Fine Art - Solid Liquid: Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Glass sale catalogue - New York, 1999, card covers, 125 pp, colour; John A. Brooks - The Samson Low Collector's Library: Glass - New York, 1975, hardback with dustwrapper, 80 pp, monochrome and colour; Hiroko Horiuchi - Exhibition of Ancient Glass - Kyobashi, 1993, card covers, 67 pp, colour; Rosemarie Lierke - Antike Glastöpferei - Mainz, 1999, hardback with dustwrapper, 156 pp, colour and monochrome. 3 kg total, 21 x 28 - 24 x 30.5 cm
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A Collection of Books on Ancient Glass - 6 Titles
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £299
Axel von Saldern et al. - Gläser der Antike - Hamburg, 1974, card covers, 260 pp, monochrome; Takashi Tanaiichi - Ancient Glass in Some Japanese Collections - Tokyo, 2001, hardback with dustwrapper, 110 pp, colour; Axel von Saldern - Ancient Glass in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Manz, 1968, card covers, 94 pp, monochrome; Hadji baba - The Beauty of Ancient Glass - London, 1995, card covers, 16 pp, colour; Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum - Brilliant Vessels of Ancient Near east - Glass Metal and Lustre Pottery - n.d., card covers, 36 pp, colour; Christies - Ancient Egyptian Glass Inlays from the Per-neb Collection Part II - London, 1993, loose cards in slip case (still sealed). 2 kg total, 11 x 16 - 22.7 x 26 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman.
