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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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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. -
Arthur Upham Pope - A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present - 12 Volumes
1938 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £845
Asia Institute, Tehran: I Pre-Achaemenid, Achaemenid and Parthian Periods; II Sasanian Periods; III Architecture; IV The Ceramic Arts, Calligraphy and Epigraphy; V The Art of the Book and Textiles; VI Carpets, Metalwork and Minor Arts; VII XII - plates - hardback in quarter-calf binding gold block titling, monochrome plates. 26 kg total, 31 x 23 cm each
Property of a North West London gentleman. -
Les Instruments de Musique dans L'Art Sassanide
1993 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Marcelle Duchesne-Guillemin - Gent, 1993. card covers, 125 pp, monochrome plates. 368 grams, 20 x 27.5 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman.