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LOT 1057
The Castellani Collection – A Series of Twenty Photographs by Stephen Thompson – Described by C. T. Newton
1874 A.D.
13 3/8 x 18 1/8 in. (1.74 kg, 34 x 46 cm).
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.
ProvenanceProperty of a London, UK, gentleman.
FootnotesAlessandro 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.
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LOT 1057
The Castellani Collection – A Series of Twenty Photographs by Stephen Thompson – Described by C. T. Newton
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,080
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A Collection of Books on Ancient Glass - 5 Titles
1975-1999 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
S.B. Mathieson - Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery - New Haven, 1980, card covers, 152 pp, monochrome and colour; Fortuna Fine Art - Solid Liquid: Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Glass sale catalogue - New York, 1999, card covers, 125 pp, colour; John A. Brooks - The Samson Low Collector's Library: Glass - New York, 1975, hardback with dustwrapper, 80 pp, monochrome and colour; Hiroko Horiuchi - Exhibition of Ancient Glass - Kyobashi, 1993, card covers, 67 pp, colour; Rosemarie Lierke - Antike Glastöpferei - Mainz, 1999, hardback with dustwrapper, 156 pp, colour and monochrome. 3 kg total, 21 x 28 - 24 x 30.5 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman. -
A Collection of Books on Near Eastern Ancient Art - 4 Titles
1977-2000 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
Tokyo National Museum - Syrian Antiquities: The Exhibition of Treasures of Syrian Antiquity - Tokyo, 1977, card covers, 180 pp, monochrome; Antikenmuseum Basel - Paradeisos: Sammlung Ludwig - Basel, 1992, card covers, 119 pp. monochrome and colour; Agnes Spyker (ed) - The Human Form Divine - From the Collection of Elie Borowski - Jerusalem, 2000, card covers, 164 pp, colour; Fuad safer & Muyasser Sa'id al-Iragqi - Ivories from Nimrud - 1987, spiral-bound copy. 2.8 kg total, 21 x 27 - 22.5 x 30 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman. -
Light Nur: Light in Art an Science from the Islamic World
2014 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Sabiha Al Khemir - Seville, 2014, card covers, 302 pp, colour. 1.6 kg, 24.5 x 30 cm
Property of a North West London gentleman.
