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LOT 1086
A Collection of Books on Ancient Art of the Near East - 6 Titles
1976-2000 A.D.
9 3/8 x 6 1/2 - 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. (4.42 kg total, 23.7 x 16.5 - 31 x 23.5 cm).
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Qedem, Monographs of the Institute of Archaeology, 4 - Jerusalem, 1976, in English and Hebrew, monochrome images; Westenholz, J.G. (ed.) - Images of Inspiration - The Old Testament in Early Christian Art - Jerusalem, 2000, 160 pp, colour images; Ayla Sussman and Ruth Peled - Scrolls from the Dead Sea - Washington, 1993, 143 pp, colour images; Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien - Schatze des Orients. Meisterwerke aus dem Miho Museum - Wien, 1999, 103 pp, colour images; Trudy S. Kawami - Ancient Iranian Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections - New York, 1999, 240 pp, colour images; Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem. Guide to the Collection - Tel Aviv, 1992, 128 pp, colour images. [6, No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of a North West London gentleman.
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LOT 1086
A Collection of Books on Ancient Art of the Near East - 6 Titles
Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
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Metalworks Treasures from the Islamic Courts
2002 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
James Allen - London, 2002, card covers, 102 pp, colour. 760 grams, 25 x 31.5 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman. -
Jules La Barte - L'Émaillerie dans l'Antiquité et au Moyen Age
1856 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Subtitle: Recherches sur la Peinture en Émail dans L'Antiquité et au Moyen Age - Paris, 1856, hardback with quarter-calf binding, marbled boards and endpapers, gold block title to spine, 239 pp, six coloured chromolith plates, fold-out engraving of architectural detail in Venice; stamped 'Bibliothèque de F. Halévy' and gummed bookplate with author's dedication 'à Monsieur Halevy hommages de l'auteur J. Labarte'. 1.4 kg, 22.5 x 27 cm
Property of a London, UK, gentleman.
Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy (usually known as Fromental Halévy) (27 May 1799 – 17 March 1862), was a French composer in the mid-19th century. His given name Fromental (meaning 'oat grass') refers to his birth on the day (7 Prairial) dedicated to the same plant in the French Revolutionary calendar which was still operative at that time. -
A Collection of Books on Iranian Ancient Art - 5 Titles
1981-1999 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
A.C. Gunter & P.Jett - Ancient Iranian Metalwork in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art - Washington, 1992, hardback with dustwrapper, 271 pp, monochrome; Hofkunst van de Sassanieden - Brussels, 1993, card covers, 310 pp, colour; Houshang Mahboubian - The Art of the Medes - London, 1995, bound photocopy; P.O. Harper & P. Meyers - Silver Vessels of the Sasanian Period Vol. I Royal Imagery - New York, 1981, hardback with embossed cover, 256 pp, monochrome; Threads of Imagination: Central Asian and Chinese Silks - London, 1999, card covers, 27 colour plates. 5.54 kg total, 22.5 x 28.7 - 25 x 31.5 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman.
