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LOT 0996
Archaeological Books - Costume and Bead Titles
1964-1987 A.D.
9 1/2 x 7 1/8 - 11 3/4 x 8 7/8 in. (1.5 kg total, 24 x 18 - 29.8 x 22.5 cm).
Lois Sherr Dubin - The History of Beads From 30,000 B.C. to the Present - London, 1987, card covers, 136 pp; Mary G. Houston - Ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Persian Costume - London, 1964 reprint, hardback clothbound, 190 pp [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of the late Mrs Belinda Ellison, a long time member of the Egyptian Exploration Society, c.1940-2020.
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Archaeological Books - Ancient Art Book Group
1962-1993 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £3
René Huyghe (ed.) - Larousse Encyclopedia of Prehistoric and Ancient Art - London, 1957, hardback with dustwrapper, 414 pp; John Boardman - The Oxford History of Classical Art - Oxford, 1993, hardback with dustwrapper, 406 pp; S.G.F. Brandon (ed.) - Milestones of History 1: Ancient Empires - New York, 1973 edition, hardback with dustwrapper, 160 pp; Margaret Oliphant - Atlas of the Ancient World - London, 1992, hardback with dustwrapper, 220 pp. 6.45 kg total, 31 x 25 - 28 x 22.5 cm
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Archaeological Books - Books on the Legends and Tales of Ancient Egypt
1911-2017 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Josephine McCarthy - The Book of gates: A Magical Translation - London, 2017, card covers, 347 pp; Joseph Kaster - The Wisdom of Ancient Egypt - New York, 1993, hardback with dustwrapper, 305 pp; Gilbert Murray - Nefrekepta - Oxford, 1911, hardback, 47 pp, pages uncut; Roger Lancelyn Green - Tales of Ancient Egypt - London, 1967, hardback with dustwrapper, 199 pp; Isha Shaller de Lubicz - Her-Bak Egyptian Initiate - London, 1967, hardback, 220 pp; Margaret Murray - Wisdom of the East: Ancient Egyptian Legends - London, 1920, 119 pp. 3.06 kg total, 17 x 12.5 - 28 x 21.5 cm
From the private collection of the late Mrs Belinda Ellison, a long time member of the Egyptian Exploration Society, c.1940-2020. -
Archaeological Books - Ancient Warfare Book Group
1978-1989 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
General Sir John Hackett - Warfare in the Ancient World - London, 1989, hardback with dustwrapper, 256 pp; Richard Humble - Warfare in the Ancient World - London, 1980, hardback with dustwrapper, 255 pp; Jochen Garbsch - Römische Paraderüstungen - München, 1979, card covers, 100 pp, 48 plates. 2.7 kg total, 29.5 x 21 - 25.5 x 19.5 cm
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
