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LOT 1163
Arthur Upham Pope - A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present - 12 Volumes
1938 A.D.
12 1/4 x 9 in. (26 kg total, 31 x 23 cm each).
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. [12, No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of a North West London gentleman.
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LOT 1163
Arthur Upham Pope - A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present - 12 Volumes
Sold for (Inc. bp): £845
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A Collection of Books on Ancient Egyptian Art - 4 Titles
1966-2007 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Metropolitan Museum of Art - Guide to the Collections: Ancient Near Eastern Art - New York, 1966, card covers. 40 pp, monochrome; Musée d'Art Genève - Reflets du Divin - Geneva, 2002, card covers, 159 pp, monochrome images; Marsha Hill (ed.) - Gifts for the Gods - Images from Egyptian Temples - New York, 2007, hardback with dustwrapper, 240 pp, colour images; Edna Russmann - Egyptian Sculpture - Cairo and Luxor - London, 1989, hardback with dustwrapper, 230 pp, colour images. 4.46 kg total, 15.2 x 22.7 - 26 x 33.5 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman. -
A Collection of Books on Ancient Glass - 5 Titles
1975-1999 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
S.B. Mathieson - Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery - New Haven, 1980, card covers, 152 pp, monochrome and colour; Fortuna Fine Art - Solid Liquid: Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Glass sale catalogue - New York, 1999, card covers, 125 pp, colour; John A. Brooks - The Samson Low Collector's Library: Glass - New York, 1975, hardback with dustwrapper, 80 pp, monochrome and colour; Hiroko Horiuchi - Exhibition of Ancient Glass - Kyobashi, 1993, card covers, 67 pp, colour; Rosemarie Lierke - Antike Glastöpferei - Mainz, 1999, hardback with dustwrapper, 156 pp, colour and monochrome. 3 kg total, 21 x 28 - 24 x 30.5 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman. -
A Collection of Books on Greek and Thracian Ancient Art - 5 Titles
1977-2007 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Stefan Danailov et al - L'Or des Thraces: Trésors de Bulgarie - Paris, 2007, card covers, 192 pp, colour images; Metropolitan Museum of Art - Thracian Treasures from Bulgaria - New York, 1977, card covers, 80pp, colour and monochrome images; АУКЦИОННЫЙ ДОМ КАБИЕШЪ - auction catalogue 9th December 2006 - card covers, 74 pp, colour images; Dietrich von Bothmer - A Greek and Roman Treasury - New York, 1984, card covers, 72 pp, colour and monochrome images; Joan Mertens - Greek Bronzes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York, 1985 (reprint from Bulletin), card covers, 64 pp, colour and monochrome images. 2.2 kg total, 21 x 27 - 24 x 28 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman.
