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LOT 1176
A Collection of Books on Ancient Glass - 5 Titles
1978-1992 A.D.
7 x 10 1/4 - 9 x 12 in. (3.8 kg total, 18 x 26 - 23 x 30.5 cm).
Tokyo National Museum - Ancient Glass from Orient - Tokyo, 1978, card covers, 147 pp, monochrome and colour; Shinji Fukai et al. - Persian Glass - hardback with cloth cover, Japanese text, typed English transcription of the catalogue entries, 220pp, colour; Galdys Davidson Weinberg - Glass Vessels in Ancient Greece - Athens, 1992, card covers, 135 pp, colour and line drawings; Michael Klein (ed) - Römische Glaskunst und Wandmalerei - Mainz, 1999, hardback, 160 pp, colour and monochrome; Fortuna Fine Art - Solid Liquid: Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Glass sale catalogue - New York, 1999, card covers, 125 pp, colour. [5, No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of a North West London gentleman.
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A Collection of Books on Ancient Egyptian Art - 4 Titles
1966-2007 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Metropolitan Museum of Art - Guide to the Collections: Ancient Near Eastern Art - New York, 1966, card covers. 40 pp, monochrome; Musée d'Art Genève - Reflets du Divin - Geneva, 2002, card covers, 159 pp, monochrome images; Marsha Hill (ed.) - Gifts for the Gods - Images from Egyptian Temples - New York, 2007, hardback with dustwrapper, 240 pp, colour images; Edna Russmann - Egyptian Sculpture - Cairo and Luxor - London, 1989, hardback with dustwrapper, 230 pp, colour images. 4.46 kg total, 15.2 x 22.7 - 26 x 33.5 cm
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Persepolis (Takht-I-Jamshid)
1955 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Ali-Sami (trans. R.N. Sharp) - Shiraz, 1955, hardback with cloth covers and gold titling, 90 pp, monochrome plates. 473 grams, 16.5 x 23 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman. -
A Collection of Books on Ancient Glass - 5 Titles
1995-2008 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
Yael Israeli - The Wonders of Ancient Glass at the Israel Museum - Jerusalem, 1998, hardback, 63 pp, colour; Glass of the Dark Ages - London, 1995, card covers, 16 pp, colour; Stefano Carboni - Glass from Islamic Lands - The Al-Sabah Collection - London, 2001, card covers, 416 pp, colour; Robert Bianchi (ed) - Reflections on Ancient Glass from the Borowski Collection - Mainz, 2002, hardback with dustwrapper, 379 pp, colour; Martine S. Newby - The Shlomo Moussaieff Collection Byzantine Mould-Blown Glass from the Holy Land - London (privately published), 2008, hardback with dustwrapper. 332 pp, colour. 7.47 kg total, 28 x 21 - 34 x 25.5 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman.
