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LOT 1184
Pictures of Grecian History in Miniature Book
1810 A.D.
2 1/2 in. (35.2 grams, 64 mm high).
Designed by Alfred Mills, printed in London, original leather binding, 96 pages with black-and-white illustrations; part of a series of Alfred Mills’s Miniature Historic Library.
ProvenancePrivate collection, UK.
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The Art of The Greeks by H.B. Walters
Second Edition, 1922 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Walters, H.B. - revised second edition, cloth-covered hardcover with gold titling, 277 pp with 112 plates and 18 illustrations in the text. 1.36 kg, 25.9 x 18.1 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Books on the Ancient Near East, Antiquities, Ancient Art & Archaeology - 7 Titles
1967-2017 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
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. 9.8 kg toal, 24.6 x 17.5 - 30.5 x 26.6 cm
Property of a London, UK, gentleman. -
Books on Ancient Islamic and Near Eastern Antiquities, Ancient Art and Archaeology - 7 Titles
1973-2004 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Benaki Museum- Islamic Art, Athens, 1980, cardcovers, 52 pp, colour and black and white images; John Carswell - Iznik Pottery, 1998, cardcovers, 128 pp, colour and black and white images; Pratapaditya Pal (Ed.) - Islamic Art, The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, 1973, cardcovers, 232 pp, colour and black and white images; Esin Atil - Renaissance of Islam, Art of the Mamluks, 1981, cardcovers, 286 pp, colour images; Anthony Welch - Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World, 1979, cardcovers, 216 pp, colour and black and white images; Tim Stanley, Mariam Rosser-Owen and Stephen Vernolt - Palace and Mosque, Islamic Art from the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2004, cardcovers, 144 pp, colour images; M. Ugur Derman - Sabanci University, Sakip Sabanci Museum, Selected Works from the Calligraphy Collection, card covers, 268 pp. 5.44 kg total, 23 x 17 - 28 x 22 cm
Property of a London, UK, gentleman.
