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LOT 1090
A Collection of Books on Ancient Egyptian Art - 6 Titles
1980-1999 A.D.
5 1/8 x 7 5/8 - 10 5/8 x 13 in. (6.16 kg total, 13 x 19.5 - 27 x 33 cm).
Erich Lessing & Pascal Vernus - Dieux de l'Egypte - Paris, 1998, hardback with dustwrapper, 202 pp, colour; Metropolitan Museum of Art - Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids - New York, 1999, hardback with dustwrapper, 536 pp, colour; Cyril Aldred - Egyptian Art - London, 1980, card covers, 252 pp, monochrome; Paul Nicholson - Egyptian Faience & Glass - Princes Risborough, 1993, card covers, 80pp, monochrome; George Hart - Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses - London, 1986, card covers, 229 pp, line drawings; A. Gaddis & G. Seif - The Book of the Dead and Elysian Fields - Luxor, n.d., hardback with cloth covers, 36 colour plates. [6, No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of a North West London gentleman.
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LOT 1090
A Collection of Books on Ancient Egyptian Art - 6 Titles
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
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The Castellani Collection – A Series of Twenty Photographs by Stephen Thompson – Described by C. T. Newton
1874 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,080
London: George Bell and Sons, 1874 - brown cloth boards (disbound), titled in gilt on front cover and spine, folio, moulded ornament to covers; twenty albumen prints, each approx. 10 x 7½ in., mounted on card with printed descriptive text; title page with photographer's credit; folded in: a small hand-drawn watercolour necklace and drop earring initialled 'C.I'; a larger watercolour on card, also initialled 'C.I'; spine torn; rare. 1.74 kg, 34 x 46 cm
Property of a London, UK, gentleman.
Alessandro Castellani (2 February 1823 – 10 June 1883) was a goldsmith, antique dealer and art collector from a notable Italian family of goldsmiths and antique dealers. -
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
Property of a North West London gentleman. -
A Collection of Books on the Near East and Holy Land - 3 Titles
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Fondation L.A. Meyer Jerusalem - Jerusalem, 1976, card covers, 20 pp, colour; Yosef Garfinkel - The Yarmukians - Jerusalem, 1999, card covers, 96 pp, colour images; Anton Felton Jewish Carpets: A History and Guide - Woodbridge, 1997, hardback with dustwrapper, 199 pp, colour. 1.7 kg total, 21.5 x 24.5 - 22 x 28 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman.
