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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 Persian and Islamic Art - 5 Titles
1979-2005 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
John Curtis - Ancient Persia - London, 1989, card covers, 72 pp, colour and monochrome images; Richard Ettinghausen & Ehsan Yarshater - Highlights of Persian Art - Boulder, 1979, hardback with dustwrapper, 391 pp, monochrome images; John Boardman - Persia and the West - London, 2000, hardback with dustwrapper, 255 pp, monochrome images; N. Nafisi - Pearl of Persia - Persepolis - Tehran, 2005, hardback in slipcase, 151 pp, English and Persian text, colour images; Dominique Collon - Ancient Near Eastern Art - London, 1995, card covers, 247 pp, colour and monochrome images. 4.9kg total, 21.5x21.5 - 20x27cm
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. -
A Collection of Books on Ancient Glass - 7 Titles
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
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. 2.8 kg total, 13.5 x 19.5 - 21.7 x 20.5 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman.
