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LOT 1144
Books on the Ancient Near East, Antiquities, Ancient Art & Archaeology - 7 Titles
1967-2017 A.D.
9 5/8 x 6 7/8 - 12 x 10 1/2 in. (9.8 kg toal, 24.6 x 17.5 - 30.5 x 26.6 cm).
AA.VV., Signs Before the Alphabet, Journey to Mesopotamia at the origins of writing, January 20, 2017, April 25, 2017, Milano, Venezia, 2017, pp.272, colour catalogue of exhibition; N. Bancroft Hunt, Historical Atlas of Ancient Mesopotamia, New York, 2004, pp.192, col.ill.; J.Aruz, K.Benzel, J.M. Evans, Beyond Babylon, Art, Trade and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C., New York, 2008-2009, pp.523, col.ill.; J.Mellart, Catal Huyuk, A Neolithic Town in Anatolia, New York, 1967, pp.232, 15 colour plates, 121 monochrome plates, 56 line drawings; J.A. Gobineau, The World of the Persians, Genève, 1971, pp.159, monochrome ill.; AA.VV., The Anatolian Civilisations, III, Seljuk and Ottoman, Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul, May 22-Ocotber 30, 1983, pp.323, colour plates and b/w. ill.; O.W. Muscarella, The lie became great, The Forgery of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Groningen, 2000, pp.540, B/W plates. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of a London, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 1144
Books on the Ancient Near East, Antiquities, Ancient Art & Archaeology - 7 Titles
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
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Sotheby's and Christie's Japanese and Chinese Art Auction Catalogue Group - 45 Titles
1988-2015 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
SOTHEBY'S: Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 14 May 1997; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 6 June 1988; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 17 October 1988; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 8-9 May 1989; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 12 May 1998; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 7 December 1998; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 16 October 1990; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 27 October 1993; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 17 May 1994; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 25 October 1994; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 22 October 1996; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 17 November 1997; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics & Works of Art, Amsterdam, 11 May 1999; Chinese and Japanese Works of Art, London, 10 March 2005; Chinese & Japanese Works of Art, London, 9-10 November 2005; Japanese Works of Art, Prints and Paintings, London, 10 November 2005; CHRISTIE'S: Chinese and Japanese Ceramics, Works of Art, Japanese Prints, Amsterdam, 31 May and 1 June 1988; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 19-20 October 1988; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 7 December 1988; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 7 December 1988; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 3 May 1989; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 10 October 1989; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics, Furniture and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 19 May 1993; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics, Furniture and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 26 October 1993; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 27 October 1994; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 17 May 1995; Chinese, Japanese, indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art, Amsterdam, 18 October 1995; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 8 May 1996; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 19 November 1996; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 13 May 1997; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 18 November 1997; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 13 May 1998; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 8 December 1998; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 12 May 1999; Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 19 October 1999; Japanese Art & Design, South Kensington, 9 November 2011; Japanese & Korean Art, 21 March 2012; Japanese Art & Design, South kensington, 16 May 2012; Masterful Exuberance: Artistic Craftsmanship of Imperial Japan, South Kensington,18 May 2012; The Japanese Aesthetic, South Kensington, 7 November 2012; Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 28 November 2012; Japanese Art & Design, New York, 20 March 2013; Japanese Art & Design, New York, 18 March 2014; The Joseph Collection of Japanese Art, king Street, 11 November 2015; Aesthetic Intuition: Collecting Japanese Art in Post War London, King Street, 11 November 2015. 22 kg total, 25.5 x 20 - 29.8 x 23.1 cm
Property of a London, UK, gentleman. -
Books on Ancient Egypt, Egyptian Art and Egyptology - 7 Titles
1976-1993 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Luxor Museum of Ancient Egyptian Art - Catalogue - Cairo, 1979, hardback, 219 pp, monochrome; Museum of Fine Arts - Egypt's Golden Age: The Art of Living in the New Kingdom, 1558-1085 BC - Boston, 1982, card covers, 336 pp, monochrome; I.E.S. Edwards - Tutankhamum: His Tomb and its Treasures - New York, 1977, hardback with dustwrapper, 256 pp, colour and monochrome; M.d'Alton - The New York Obelisk - New York, 1993, hardback, 72 pp, monochrome; C.K. Wilkinson - Edyptian wall Paintings - New York, 1983, card covers, 163 pp, monochrome; Metropolitan Museum of Art - Treasues of Tutankhamun - New York, 1976, card covers, 174 pp, monochrome and colour; D. Wildung - Egyptian Art in Berlin - Berlin, 1994. card covers, 59 pp, colour. 5.94 kg total, 23 x 21 - 29 x 22.5 cm
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Books on Ancient Greek Vases, Painting and Archaeology - 6 Titles
1966-1995 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
H. Alan Shapiro, C.A. Picon, G.D. Scott, Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art, Sant’Antonio, 1995, pp. 287, XVII col. Pls. and b/w ill.; D.G.Mitten, J.G.Pedley, J.A. Scott, Studies presented to George M.A. Hanfmann, Cambridge, 1977, pp.245, 63 B/W pls.; J.M.Padgett, M.B. Comstock, J.J.Hermann, C.C. Vermeule, Vase-Painting in Italy, Red-Figure and related works in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, 1993, pp.275, XXV col.pls., b/w ill.; G.M.A., Richter, The Portraits of the Greeks, New York, 1984, pp.256, b/w ill.; A.G. Ward, The Quest for Theseus, New York-Washington-London, 1970, pp.281, col & b/w ill.; A.D. Trendall, South Italian Vase Painting, London, 1966, pp.33, 16 B/W pls. 6.53 kg total, 21.6 x 13.7 - 30 x 21.5 cm
Property of a London, UK, gentleman.