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LOT 1164
A Collection of Books on Art of the Near East - 5 Titles
1974-1996 A.D.
8 1/2 x 8 7/8 - 9 7/8 x 13 in. (3.7 kg total, 21.5 x 22.5 - 25 x 33 cm).
M.V. Seton-Williams - Les Tresors de Babylone - Luxembourg, 1981, hardback with dustwrapper, 215 pp, colour images; P.R.S. Moorey, - Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Adam Collection - London, 1974, hardback with dustwrapper, 207 pp, monochrome images; Metropolitan Museum of Art - Discoveries at Ashur on the Tigris: Assyrian Origins - New York, 1995, card covers, 142 pp, monochrome images; Spink Islamic Jewellery sale catalogue 1st November 1996, London, card covers, 39 pp, colour images; Marilyn Jenkins - Islamic Pottery: A Brief History - New York, 1983, card covers, 52 pp, colour images. [5, No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of a North West London gentleman.
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LOT 1164
A Collection of Books on Art of the Near East - 5 Titles
Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
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A Collection of Books on Persian and Islamic Art
1975-1999 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Richard Ettinghausen - La Peinture Arabe - Geneva, 1977, card covers, 209 pp, maps, colour images; Julian - Raby - Qajar Portraits - London, 1999, card covers, 104 pp, colour and monochrome images; Robert Irwin - Islamic Art - London, 1997, card covers, 272 pp, colour and monochrome images; Sheila R. Canby - Persian Painting - London, 1993, card covers, 128 pp, colour and monochrome images; David Talbot Rice - Islamic Art - London, 1975, hardback with dustwrapper, 288 pp, monochrome images. 3.1 kg total, 15.5 x 22 - 23.5 x 28 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman. -
A Collection of Books on Ancient Egyptian Art - 6 Titles
1990-2005 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Zahi Hawass - Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs - Washington, 2005, hardback with dustwrapper, 288 pp, colour and monochrome images, CD-ROM; Lawrence Berman - Catalogue of Egyptian Art - The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999, hardback with dustwrapper, 584 pp, monochrome images; Christie's - The Per-neb Collection Part 1 - London, 1992, hardback with dustwrapper, 92 pp, colour and monochrome images; Stephen Spurr et al - Egyptian Art at Eton College - New York, 1999, 64 pp, colour images; Diana Patch - Reflections of Greatness - Ancient Egypt at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Pittsburgh, 1990, card covers, colour and monochrome images; André Wiese et al (eds) - Toutankhamon L'Or de L'Au-delà - Paris, 2004, card covers, 381 pp, colour and monochrome images. 7.8 kg total, 21.5 x 27.5 - 23.5 x 31 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman. -
The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art - 9 Volumes
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,300
I The Abbasid Tradition-Qu'rans of the 8th to 10th Centuries; II The Master Scribes-Qu'rans of the 11th to 14th Centuries; II After Timuks-Qu'rans of the 15th and 16th Centuries; VI Bills, Letters and Deeds-Arabic Papyri of the 7th to 11th Centuries; VIII Paintings From India; IX Cobalt and Lustre-The First Centuries of Islamic Pottery; XV Glass-From Sasanian Antecedents to European Imitations; XXI The Arts of War-Arms and Armour of the 7th to 19th Centuries; XXII Lacquer of the Islamic Lands Part One; Oxford, 1992-8, hardback in dustwrapper and slipcase, mostly 260-292 pp, colour images; as new condition. 29 kg total, 37 x 27 cm each
Property of a North West London gentleman.
