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LOT 1035
Archaeological Books - Pitt-Rivers - Antique Works of Art from Benin
1900 A.D.
12 5/8 x 9 7/8 in. (1.55 kg, 32 x 25 cm).
Lieutenant-General Pitt-Rivers - Antique Works of Art from Benin - Printed privately, 1900 - hardback, cloth bpud with gold blocking to covers ad spine - with old card-mounted photograph of a Benin ivory figurine. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of a Kent, UK, collector.
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LOT 1035
Archaeological Books - Pitt-Rivers - Antique Works of Art from Benin
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
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Archaeological Books - Mortimer - Forty Years' Researches in British and Saxon Burial Mounds of East Yorkshire
1905 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
J.R. Mortimer - Forty Years' Researches in British and Saxon Burial Mounds of East Yorkshire including Romano-British discoveries and a description of the ancient entrenchments on a section of the Yorkshire Wolds - A.Brown & Sons, Hull, 1905 - quarter leather binding with gold block titling to spine, 440 pp, fold-out table, text figures, 125 plates. 3.39 kg, 30.5 x 22.5 cm
Property of a Kent, UK, collector. -
Archaeological Books - List of Objects of Art Reproduced in Metal in the South Kensington Museum - Part I - Examples of Which Copies May Be Supplied by the Electrotypists
1888 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
List of Objects of Art Reproduced in Metal in the South Kensington Museum - Part I - Examples of Which Copies May Be Supplied by the Electrotypists - Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1888 - card covers rebound in hardback with half-calf binding, gold titling, marbled endpapers - 163 pp. 361 grams, 22 x 15 cm
Property of a Kent, UK, collector. -
Archaeological Books - Roach Smith & Fairholt - The Antiquities of Richborough, Reculver, and Lymne, in Kent
1850 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Charles Roach Smith & F.W. Fairholt - The Antiquities of Richborough, Reculver, and Lymne, in Kent - John Russell Smith, London, 1850 - hardback, cloth cover, gold titling to spine - 272 pp, plates, text figures. 683 grams, 21.6 x 16.5 cm
Property of a Kent, UK, collector.