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LOT 1108
Elizabeth Riefstahl - Ancient Egyptian Glass and Glazes
1968 A.D.
8 5/8 x 11 1/8 in. (948 grams, 22 x 28.5 cm).
New York, 1968, hardback with cloth covers, 118 pp, monochrome images. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of a North West London gentleman.
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A Collection of Books on Ancient Egyptian Art - 6 Titles
1949-1999 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Ian Shaw and Paul NIcholson - British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt - London, 1995, card covers, 328 pp, colour; Gay Robins - The Art of Ancient Egypt - Cambridge, 1997, hardback with dustwrapper, 270 pp, colour; Official Catalogue of the Egyptian Museum Cairo - Mainz, 1987, hardback with dustwrapper, 268 pp, colour; Mark Collier & Bill Manley - How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs - London, 1999, hardback, 179 pp, text figures; Egyptian Sculpture from the Gulbenkian Collection - Washington, 1949, card covers, 33 pp, 28 monochrome plates; Geraldine Pinch - Magic in Ancient Egypt - London, 1994, card covers, 191 pp, monochrome. 5.37 kg total, 15.5 x 23 - 26.5 x 26 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman. -
The Castellani Collection – A Series of Twenty Photographs by Stephen Thompson – Described by C. T. Newton
1874 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,080
London: George Bell and Sons, 1874 - brown cloth boards (disbound), titled in gilt on front cover and spine, folio, moulded ornament to covers; twenty albumen prints, each approx. 10 x 7½ in., mounted on card with printed descriptive text; title page with photographer's credit; folded in: a small hand-drawn watercolour necklace and drop earring initialled 'C.I'; a larger watercolour on card, also initialled 'C.I'; spine torn; rare. 1.74 kg, 34 x 46 cm
Property of a London, UK, gentleman.
Alessandro Castellani (2 February 1823 – 10 June 1883) was a goldsmith, antique dealer and art collector from a notable Italian family of goldsmiths and antique dealers. -
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.
