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LOT 1185
A Collection of Books on Ancient Glass - 7 Titles
20TH CENTURY A.D.
5 1/4 x 7 5/8 - 8 1/2 x 8 1/8 in. (2.8 kg total, 13.5 x 19.5 - 21.7 x 20.5 cm).
Takashi Taniichi & Yochiro Kudo - Glass Beads in the World - Tokyo, 1997, hardback with dustwrapper, 125 pp, colour; Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum - Brilliant Vessels of Ancient Near east - Glass Metal and Lustre Pottery - n.d., card covers, 36 pp, colour; Miho Museum DIary 2002 - spiral bound, 55 pp, colour; Sidney Goldstein - Fakes and Forgeries of Ancient Glass - Liege, 1979, card covers, 9 pp, monochrome (offprint from Annales du Congrès); Karol B. Wright - Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity - Los Angeles, 2011, card covers, 136 pp, colour; Corning Museum of Glass - Glass in the Ancient World - New York, 1997. card covers, 298 pp, 609 monochrome plates; Giovanni Mariacher - Glass from Antiquity to the Renaissance - London, 1970, hardback with cloth covers, 156 pp, colour plates. [7, No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of a North West London gentleman.
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R. R. R. Smith - Hellenistic Royal Portraits
1988 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Oxford, 1988, hardback with dustwrapper, 196 pp, 80 monochrome plates; ex library copy. 760 grams, 22.5 x 28.5 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman. -
A Collection of Books on Asian Ancient Art - 4 Titles
1975-2002 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Ryoichi Hayashi - The Silk Road and the Shoso-in - Tokyo,1975, hardback with dustwrapper, 181 pp, monochrome & colour; The Central Asian Art of Avicena Epoch - Dushanbe, 1980, hardback with dustwrapper, 220 pp, monochrome and colour; Return of the Buddha - London, 2002, hardback with dustwrapper, 175 pp, colour; Jill Tilden (ed) - Asian Art: The Second Hali Annual - London, 1995, hardback with dustwrapper, 210pp, colour. 4.78 kg total, 18.7 x 23.8 - 24 x 32.2 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman. -
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.
