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LOT 1156
A Collection of Books on Ancient Egyptian Art - 5 Titles
1976-1992 A.D.
8 5/8 x 10 7/8 - 9 3/8 x 12 1/8 in. (6.77 kg total, 22 x 27.7 - 24 x 31 cm).
Sylvia Schöske & Dietrich Wildung - Gott und Götter im Alten Ägypten - Mainz, 1992, hardback with dustwrapper, 240 pp, colour images;
Metropolitan Museum of Art - Egypt and the Ancient Near East - New York, 1987, hardback with dustwrapper, 160 pp, fold-out map, colour images; Musée du Louvre - Egyptomania - Paris, 1994, card covers, 605 pp, colour and monochrome images; Sotheby's - Important Antiquities from The Norbert Schimmel Collection, New York 16th December 1992, hardback with dustwrapper, 92 pp, colour images; National Gallery of Art - Treasures of Tutankhamun - New York, 1976, card covers, 176 pp, colour and monochrome images. [5, No Reserve]
Property of a North West London gentleman.
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LOT 1156
A Collection of Books on Ancient Egyptian Art - 5 Titles
Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
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Herbert C. Dent - Piqué: A Beautiful Minor Art
1923 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
London, 1923, hardback with cloth covers, 25 pp, 36 monochrome plates; published by The Connoisseur collector magazine; bookplate to inner front of James Unitt Parkes. 585 grams, 22 x 28.5 cm
Property of a London, UK, gentleman.
James Unitt Parkes (ca 1846- d.1913) was a jeweller, silver merchant and goldsmith of J. Parkes & Co. London. -
A Collection of Ancient Art Books from Japan - 4 Titles
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
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. 5.1 kg total, 21 x 26.5 - 23 x 31.5 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman. -
A Collection of Books on Persian and Islamic Art - 5 Titles
1966-1995 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Paul Johannes Muller - Miniatures Arabes - Paris, 1979, hardback with dustwrapper, 50 pasted colour plates with facing text; Suzanne M. Helm - Ladders to Heaven: Our Judaeo-Christian Heritage 5000 BC- AD 500 - Ontario, 1979, card covers, 28 pp, monochrome; Pierre Bouffard - Trésors de L'Ancien Iran - Geneva, 1966, card covers, 160pp, 91 monochrome plates, damaged; Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum - Persian Ceramics - Aichi, 1995, card covers, 56 pp, colour; Stuart Cary Welch - The Islamic World - New York, 1987, hardback with dustwrapper, 160 pp, foldout charts, colour. 4.3 kg total, 20 x 22.5 - 28 x 34.5 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman.
