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LOT 1087
Herbert C. Dent - Piqué: A Beautiful Minor Art
1923 A.D.
8 5/8 x 11 1/4 in. (585 grams, 22 x 28.5 cm).
London, 1923, hardback with cloth covers, 25 pp, 36 monochrome plates; published by The Connoisseur collector magazine; bookplate to inner front of James Unitt Parkes. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of a London, UK, gentleman.
FootnotesJames Unitt Parkes (ca 1846- d.1913) was a jeweller, silver merchant and goldsmith of J. Parkes & Co. London.
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A Collection of Books on Persia and Persian Art - 5 Titles
1965-1999 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Werner Dutz, Sylvia Matheson, F. Ghani - Parsa Persepolis - Tehran, 1998, hardback with dustwrapper, 100 pp, English and Persian text, colour André Godard - The Art of Iran - New York, 1965, hardback with dustwrapper, 358 pp, colour and monochrome images; Layla Diba & Maryam Ekhtiar - Royal Persian Paintings - The Qajar Epoch - New York, 1999, card covers, 296 pp, colour and monochrome images; Mehrdad Bahar - Persepolis - n.d, 92 pp, English and Persian text, colour images. 5.9 kg total, 16 x 24 - 24.5 x 32 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman. -
A Collection of Books on Ancient Glass - 5 Titles
1968-2001 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
James Bomford - Ancient Glass: The Bomford Collection - Bristol, 1976, card covers, 48 pp, colour images; The British Museum - Masterpieces of Glass - London, 1968, card covers, 199 pp, colour images; E. Mariann Stern & Birgit - Schlick-Nolte - Early Glass of the Ancient World 1600 B.C. - A.D. 50 - Ostfildern, 1994, hardback with dustwrapper, 450pp, colour images; Παυλος Τριανταφυλλιδες - Ροδιακη Υαλυργια - Athens, 2000, card covers, 206 pp, monochrome images; Miho Museum - Ancient Glass - Tokyo, 2001, card covers, 217 pp, colour images. 5.54 kg total, 21 x 29 - 24.5 x 27.5 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman. -
Archaeology and Museum Collection Book Group - 6 Titles
20th-21st century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Comprising: Sophie Makariou - Chefs d'œuvre Islamiques de l'Aga Khan Museum - Paris, 2007, card covers, 223 pp, colour images, maps; Miho Museum 1st Anniversary Exhibition - 1998, card covers, 135 pp, colour; Don Bacigalupi et al - Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks - Toledo, 209, hardback with dustwrapper, 359 pp, colour; Mougins Museum Catalogue, - 2007, paperer covers, spiral bound; colour; Philipp von Zabern - ÄGYPTEN Augenblicke der Ewigkeit - 1997, hardback, 339 pp, colour; Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin - Fall 2008, card covers, 60pp colour. 6.56 kg total, 20.3 x 21 - 31.5 x 24 cm
Ex property of a central London, UK, gentleman.