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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 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. -
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 - 4 Titles
1961-1995 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
André Parrot - The Arts of Assyria - Mew York. 1961, hardback with dustwrapper, 378 pp. monochrome, foldout map; E. Gubel (ed) - In de Schaduw van Babel / A l'ombre de Babel - Brussels, 1995, card covers, 182 pp, monochrome, foldout map, French and Dutch text; Irene J. Winter - A Decorated Breastplate from Hasanlu - Philadelphia, 1980, card covers, 39 pp, monochrome plates, foldout line drawing; Iran - Irene J. Winter, Benjamin Rowland - Art in Afghanistan - Objects from the Kabul Museum - London, 1971, hardback with dustwrapper, 93 pp, 314 monochrome plates. 4.7 kg total, 19 x 28 - 22 x 28.5 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman.
