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LOT 1186
A Collection of Books on Ancient Glass - 5 Titles
1968-2001 A.D.
8 1/4 x 11 3/8 - 9 5/8 x 10 7/8 in. (5.54 kg total, 21 x 29 - 24.5 x 27.5 cm).
James Bomford - Ancient Glass: The Bomford Collection - Bristol, 1976, card covers, 48 pp, colour images; The British Museum - Masterpieces of Glass - London, 1968, card covers, 199 pp, colour images; E. Mariann Stern & Birgit - Schlick-Nolte - Early Glass of the Ancient World 1600 B.C. - A.D. 50 - Ostfildern, 1994, hardback with dustwrapper, 450pp, colour images; Παυλος Τριανταφυλλιδες - Ροδιακη Υαλυργια - Athens, 2000, card covers, 206 pp, monochrome images; Miho Museum - Ancient Glass - Tokyo, 2001, card covers, 217 pp, colour images. [5, No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of a North West London gentleman.
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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
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Collection of Books on Ancient Art - 4 Titles
1966-2012 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
Erik Hornung & Betsy Bryan - The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt - Washington, 2002, hardback with dustwrapper, 240 pp, colour images; Musée Jacquemart-André - Le Crépuscule des Pharaohs - Bruxelles, 2012, hardback with dustwrapper, 256 pp, colour images; Annie Caubet & Geneviève Pierrat-Bonnefois - Faiences de l'Antiquité, de l'Égypte a l'Iran - Paris, 2005, card covers, 206 pp, colour images; Metropolitan Museum of Art - Guide to the Collections: Ancient Near Eastern Art - New York, 1966, card covers. 40 pp, monochrome. 4.7 kg total, 15 x 23 - 25 x 29.5 cm
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A Collection of Books on Greek Archaeology - 5 Titles
1991-2001 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
G. Papathanassopoulos = The Acropolis - Athens, 1991, card covers, 120pp, fold-out map, colour images; Bible Lands Museum - Glories of Ancient Greece - Vases and Jewellery from the Borowski Collection - Jerusalem, 2001, card covers, 99 pp, colour images; Kimbell Art Museum - Wealth of the Ancient World - The Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt Collections - Beverley Hills, 1993, hardback with dustwrapper, 328 pp, monochrome images; Anne Bromberg - Gold of Greece - Jewelry and Ornaments from the Benaki Museum - Dallas, 1990, card covers, 112 pp,monochrome and colour images; Carroll Mattusch - The Fire of Hephaistos - Large Classical Bronzes from North American Collections - Cambridge, 1996, card covers, 359 pp, monochrome images. 4.57 kg total, 16.5 x 24 - 23 x 30.5 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman.
