[Ancient Glass] Paintings, Arms and Armor, Oriental and other Objects of Art and Antiquities, Property of the Estate of the Late George D. Pratt... New York American Art Association: January 15-16th, 1937. Sale 4290. Lots 1-68 are Syrian, Sidonian, and Alexandrian Glass, 2nd Century BC to 4th Century AD. 46 of these lots are illustrated. Softcover 6.5"x9.5", 100 pages, 418 lots, b/w illustrations some wear and soil.

Inventory #: 3996 Price: $ 20.00

Bothmer, Dietrich von. A Gold Libation Bowl. [contained in the] Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin: December, 1962. A portion of this Bulletin is devoted to an examination of a 3rd Century gold phiale from Greece, and related examples. Softcover. 7.5"x10", [article- 13 pages, 20 b/w illustrations]. Light soil, cover slightly scuffed.

Inventory #: 31153 Price: $ 20.00

Brooks, Robin. The Portland Vase. The Extraordinary Odyssey of a Mysterious Roman Treasure. New York Harper Collins: 2004. The Portland Vase is a marvelous piece of ancient cameo glass, intricately carved by modern standards, to say nothing of the problems it must have presented for ancient Roman glass carvers. "Created for an Emperor, exhumed from a burial ground, coveted, traded, smashed, restored, and stuffed full of incident and intrigue, the Portland Vase- the most famous of all Roman antiquities- has captivated everyone who has come into contact with it." There was Fabrizio Lazzaro, the archeologist/tomb robber who discovered it, Pope Urban VIII who wanted to acquire it, the Princess of Palestrina who supported her gambling by selling it, the Duchess of Portland, who owned it in secret yet gave it a name, Josiah Wedgwood, whose intricate copies finished the job of immortalizing it, the madman who smashed it to bits, and the restorers who managed to piece it back together... all those figures, and more, dance across the glassy stage. Hardcover, 6"x8.5", 250 pages, b/w illustrations, dj. New. Published at $24.95.

Inventory #: 95033 Price: $ 12.50

Chang, Dr. Claudia & Katharine S. Guroff (eds.). Of Gold and Grass: Nomads of Kazakhstan. Foundation for International Arts and Education: 2007. "This catalog, from an exhibition by the Foundation for International Arts and Education and the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan, presents 180 objects dating back as far as the 12th century BC-items of jewelry, weapons, riding tack, ceramics, and practical objects-in color plates, with some 50 additional drawings, maps, and photos. More than 2000 years ago, warriors and merchant caravans from faraway kingdoms-Persia, Syria, China and Greece-traveled along the Silk Road through what is now Kazakhstan. These travelers brought the art of their cultures, which was adopted and adapted by the people who lived along the route. Among these were the Scytho-Sakian people of southern Kazakhstan, the fabled Scythian horsemen.... Objects from the Berel Kurgan, where archaeologists found the remains of two nobles, were on display for the first time in the United States. The two nobles were buried with 13 saddled and bridled horses, sacrificed 2300 years ago to serve them in the afterlife.... In the traditional culture of the Kazakhs, all spaces are ornamented, from the interior of their yurts to their garments to the tack for their horses.... To this people who first domesticated the horse, the act of decorating an object domesticates it as well, making even ordinary utensils and tools works of art and philosophy". Softcover. 9"x12", 180 pages, color illustrations. New.

Inventory #: 90401 Price: $ 25.00

[Constable-Maxwell] Catalogue of the Constable-Maxwell Collection of Ancient Glass. London Sotheby Parke-Bernet: June 4-5, 1979. The well-illustrated auction catalog of a very fine collection of ancient glass. Hardcover. 7.5"x10.5", 209 pages, 355 lots, color and black & white illustrations, dust jacket. Light wear. Prices realized sheet loosely inserted.

Inventory #: 33675 Price: $ 50.00

Dalton, O.M. The Treasure of the Oxus with other examples of Early Oriental Metal-Work. London The Trustees of the British Museum: 1964. 3rd. edition. The first edition of this important work was published in 1905, and featured the "Oxus Treasure", a horde of ancient Achaemenid silver and gold which had been discovered in the 1870s. The second, expanded edition, published in 1926 added a substantial quantity of early Iranian, mostly Sassanian, gold and silverwork from the Museum's collections, which was all carefully described. That edition also featured Dalton's "masterly" introductory essay placing the collection into the context of Achaemenid art and history. This third edition retains Dalton's text, with a few minor additions and corrections, but features a completely new set of photographs, making it the preferred and definitive edition of the catalog. Hardcover. 8.5"x11", lxxvi + 75 pages, plus 41 b/w plates dj bibliography a nice, clean copy.

Inventory #: 8050 Price: $ 250.00

[de Terra / Straus Foundation] Egyptian & Classical Antiquities, Near Eastern Art, Gothic and Renaissance Furniture & Objects of Art, [property of] Prof. Helmut de Terra, Irma N. Straus Foundation, and others. New York Parke-Bernet Galleries: February 14-15th, 1963. Sale 2166. Ancient terra cottas and glass, early Persian and Mesopotamian pottery, and more. Softcover. 6.5"x9.5", 104 pages, 427 lots, b/w illustrations a nice copy.

Inventory #: 7512 Price: $ 20.00

Depper-Lippitz, Barbara. Ancient Gold Jewelry at the Dallas Museum of Art. Dallas Museum of Art: 1996. "Prized for its beauty, its workability, and its resistance to corrosion or decay, gold in the ancient world was, as Pindar put it, "Zeus's child. Nothing erodes or consumes it. It conquers the mind of man and is the most powerful of possessions." Indeed, this lack of erosion means the 105 art objects shown in color photoraphs in this catalog are little changed from when they were created some two millennia ago. The Dallas Museum of Art acquired the Moretti collection of Mediterranean gold jewelry in the 1990s-one of the last significant collections in private hands. Among the superbly crafted gold and jeweled ornaments here are 4th-century BC Greek ear pendants with delicate figures of Eros dangling, Etruscan filigreed bracelets from the 7th century BC, and a pair of abstracted twist bracelets from 1st-century AD Rome that look contemporary". Softcover. 8"x10", 150 pages, color illustrations. Fine.

Inventory #: 95142 Price: $ 20.00

Earl, Donald. The Age of Augustus. New York Crown Publishers: 1968. The history of ancient Rome in the time of the founder of the Roman Empire, filled with photographs of the architecture, ruins, frescoes, mosaics, artifacts and sculptures of ancient Roman life. Hardcover. 8.5"x11", 208 pages, black & white and some color illustrations, dust jacket. Jacket worn.

Inventory #: 34185 Price: $ 20.00

[Edge / Farman /et al] Egyptian, Greek and Roman Antiquities, Gothic and Renaissance Furniture and Works of Art, Persian and Mesopotamian Pottery, from the Estate of the Late Charles N. Edge, Judge Elbert E. Farman, an Eastern Educational Institution, and others. New York Parke-Bernet Galleries: January 31-February 2nd, 1946. Sale 734. A wide-ranging auction, featuring ancient jewelry, metalwork, pottery and glass, Mid-Eastern ceramics, and Gothic and Renaissance statuary, maiolica, metalwork and furniture. Softcover. 6.5"x9.5", 146 pages, 634 lots, b/w illustrations, a nice copy.

Inventory #: 7509 Price: $ 20.00

Eisen, Gustavus A. (& Fahim Kouchakji). Glass, Its Origin, History, Chronology, Technic and Classification to the Sixteenth Century. New York William Edwin Rudge: 1927. Edition limited to 500 sets. A monumental and important study of ancient glass, focusing primarily on glass of the Roman period up to about the Fifth Century, although developments from the 6th-16th Centuries are also discussed and outlined. Eisen studied examples from numerous private and public collections, but his most important source was the collection of Mrs. W.H. Moore of New York, on which he based a large part of the work. What can one say about Gustavus Eisen? A profoundly inquisitive, seemingly inexhaustible antiquary, an immigrant from Sweden with his brother, Francis, with whom he founded a vineyard in California... Eisen also was a specialist in ancient textiles who was sent by Phoebe Hearst, in 1902, to Guatemala, and returned with 200 ancient examples, forming the world's largest and best-documented collection of 19th century Guatemalan textiles, and, not incidentally, a bevy of photographs. He authored one of the most authoritative studies of portraits of George Washington, a massive three-volume study he injected himself into the controversy and research involving the Holy Grail and Shroud of Turin and wrote a monograph on the controversial Great Chalice of Antioch. And, as we present here, he authored one of the cornerstone studies of ancient glass. Is "impressive" the word I am looking for? Why yes, I believe it is... Hardcover. 2 volumes, 7.5"x10", 768 pages, 10 color and 188 b/w plates, 284 line figures in the text slipcased. Books fine glassine somewhat worn, case somewhat worn.

Inventory #: 5469 Price: $ 400.00

Evans, Helen C., Melanie Holcomb, & Robert Hallman. The Arts of Byzantium. New York Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Spring 2001. the entire Bulletin was published in the form of a catalog to this important exhibition. "The empire called Byzantium lasted more than one thousand years-from the founding of its capital, Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey), in 330 to the conquest of the city by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. This publication, a former Met Bulletin, features the splendid Byzantine works in the Metropolitan Museum's Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries that include sacred icons, miniatures, manuscripts, and sculpture." Softcover. 8.5"x11", 68 pages, color illustrations. Fine.

Inventory #: 95145 Price: $ 12.50

Frazer, Margaret English. Age of Spirituality. Late Antique and Early Christian Art, Third to Seventh Century. New York metropolitan Museum of Art: 1977. The softcover catalog to this important exhibition of metalware, glass, ivories, silver, textiles, jewelry, sculpture and other arts. There was a major hardcover catalog as well, now going for ten times this price. Softcover. 8.5"x11", 96 pages, color and black & white illustrations. Light wear.

Inventory #: 34581 Price: $ 50.00

Geoffrey-Schneiter, Berenice. Fayum Portraits. New York Assouline Publishing: 2004. "Miraculously preserved by the dry sands of the Egyptian desert, some thousand painted portraits-called "Fayum" after the region they were found in-have fascinated artists and archaeologists for their strange presence. Many are idealized images with dramatic, dark-eyed gazes, yet others are startlingly realistic, capturing the character of individuals from millennia ago. This is one of a series of compact monographs that present visual surveys of a specific cultural phenomenon or personality captured in photographs. Following a concise introductory essay, each presents dozens of large, uncaptioned color and black and white plates-some filling both pages, 12 x 8 1/2 inches-which are identified in a thumbnail index. Most titles in the series include a chronology or bibliography". Hardcover. 6.5"x8.5", 79 pages, color illustrations, dust jacket. New condition.

Inventory #: 95104 Price: $ 12.00

Geoffroy-Schneiter, Berenice. Greek Beauty. New York Assouline: 2003. "From a Pompeian fresco of Sappho to a terracotta bust of Aphrodite, and from a pure gold wreath to an ivory and bronze mirror fashioned in the 16th century BC, the art of the ancient Greeks seems as elegant and profound as ever. Many of the color plates seen here reveal the fascination that the female form held for Greek sculptors". Hardcover. 6.5"x9", 79 pages, color illustrations, dust jacket. New.

Inventory #: 90397 Price: $ 15.00

Getz-Gentle, Pat. Ancient Art of the Cyclades. Katonah Museum of Art: 2006. "This exhibition celebrates the much-admired works of art created during the third millennium B.C. by craftsmen of the Cycladic islands of the Aegean Sea. Early Cycladic objects, once viewed as archaeological curiosities, are today a source of widespread fascination and appeal. Their simple lines and spare elegance inspired such modern artists as Brancusi, Modigliani, and Picasso. Knowledge of Cycladic civilization has been fathomed through its artifacts, since there was no written language to help archaeologists. Curator Dr. Pat Getz-Gentle, an author and scholar who has devoted her professional life to the field, has written the essay for the comprehensive catalogue in which she puts forth the latest findings and her own theories on Early Cycladic culture". Softcover. 8.5"x11", 64 pages, color and black & white illustrations. Fine.

Inventory #: 90344 Price: $ 30.00

[Hearst] Works of Art, Furniture & Architectural Elements, Collected by the Late William Randolph Hearst. New York Parke-Bernet Galleries: April 5-6th, 1963. Sale 2183. This auction consisted of Oriental ceramics, Elizabethan, Stuart and other early silver, Hispano-Moresque pottery, ancient pottery and architectural elements. Highlights included a 6th C. B.C. Attic black-figured amphora with cover c.1390 Andalusian yellow lustre 'Alhambra' vase Cromwellian repousse gilded-silver vase and cover 1519 Nuremburg repousse gilded silver double pineapple cup and much more... Softcover. 7"x10", 123 pages, 355 lots, b/w illustrations. Light wear.

Inventory #: 31961 Price: $ 40.00

Holden, Beatrice Mills. The Metopes of the Temple of Athena at Ilion. Northampton Smith College: 1964. Based on a doctoral thesis, this study discusses a dozen surviving metopes from the ancient temple of Athena at Ilion, to be precise, the excavations identified as layers VIII and IX of Schliemann's excavations at Troy. In classical architecture, a metope is a rectangular architectural element between two triglyphs in a Doric frieze -they often had painted or sculptural decoration, and many of them were figural. Hardcover. 6"x9.5", 43 pages plus 31 black & white plates. Minor soil.

Inventory #: 34578 Price: $ 25.00

Honour, Hugh (et al). The Age of Neo-Classicism. London The Arts Council of Great Britain: 1972. An exhibition staged by the Royal Academy and the Victoria & Albert Museum with an emphasis on painting, sculpture and architecture, and also including furniture, ceramics, glass, silver & metalwork, textiles, and other "minor arts". Also includes many interesting thematic essays and biographies of designers. Softcover. 6"x8.5", 1037 pages, plus 160 pages of b/w illustrations. Light cover wear, spine crease "Archit" penned on fore edge -looks very scholarly, actually.

Inventory #: 30388 Price: $ 85.00

Hull, M.R. The Roman Potters' Kilns of Colchester. Oxford printed at the University Press for The Society of Antiquaries: 1963. A scholarly study of excavated kiln sites and their contents. Both the kilns themselves and the pottery found there are illustrated and discussed, and the construction and use of ancient kilns is also addressed. This publication was the "Report of the Research Committee of The Society of Antiquaries of London, No.XXI". Hardcover. 8.5"x11", 195 pages, 107 b/w figures with hundreds of illustrations, plus 22 b/w plates. In fine condition.

Inventory #: 32454 Price: $ 35.00

Hull, M.R. The Roman Potters' Kilns of Colchester. Oxford printed at the University Press for The Society of Antiquaries:1963. A scholarly study of excavated kiln sites and their contents. Both the kilns themselves and the pottery found there are illustrated and discussed, and the construction and use of ancient kilns is also addressed. This publication was the "Report of the Research Committee of The Society of Antiquaries of London, No.XXI". 8.5"x11", 195 pages, 107 b&w figures with hundreds of illustrations, plus 22 b&w plates.

Inventory #: 21156 Price: $ 85.00

Karageorghis, Vassos. Ancient Art from Cyprus. The Cesnola Collection. New York Metropolitan Museum of Art: 2000. "The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is home to the largest collection of Cypriot antiquities outside of Cyprus, largely because of the efforts of the museum's first director, Luigi Palma di Cesnola, who went to Cyprus in 1866 hoping to excavate works to rival the finds of Heinrich Schliemann at Troy. This gorgeously illustrated catalog presents some 500 objects from the prehistoric, Archaic, Classical/Hellenistic, and Roman periods in more than 300 color photographs of glass, stone sculpture, terra-cotta figurines, lamps, pottery, jewelry, and weapons. Here are delicate golden bracelets with lion-head finials, clay jugs decorated with animals and meticulous geometric motifs, and a four-foot-tall, pencil-thin bronze candelabrum that stands on three hoofed feet". Hardcover. 9"x11", 305 pages, color illustrations. Fine.

Inventory #: 95141 Price: $ 40.00

Karageorghis, Vassos. Treasures of Cyprus. An Exhibition of Cypriot Art. Brookline Maliotis Cultural Center: 1979. This catalog accompanied a traveling exhibition of antiquities from the Cyprus Museum and the District Museums of Cyprus. Not all the items are illustrated, but there are several short essays and a very interesting bibliography. Softcover. 8.5"x11", 42 pages, black & white illustrations. Light soil.

Inventory #: 34582 Price: $ 35.00

Lapatin, Kenneth. Mysteries of the Snake Goddess. Art, Desire and the Forgery of History. Boston Houghton Mifflin: 2002. "Not only is one of the most famous pieces of ancient Greek art-the celebrated gold and ivory statuette of the Minoan Snake Goddess at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston-almost certainly a modern fake, but Minoan civilization as it has been popularly imagined is largely an invention of the early 20th century. This is Kenneth Lapatin's conclusion in this investigation into the origins of the celebrated artifact. Lapatin's book also examines the world of archaeologists, adventurers, and artisans that converged in Crete at the turn of the 20th century". Hardcover. 5.75"x8.5", 274 pages, b/w illustrations, dj. New. Published for $24.00

Inventory #: 95083 Price: $ 15.00

Laufer, Berthold. Ostrich Egg-shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times. Chicago Field Museum of Natural History: 1926. Anthropology Leaflet 23. This booklet covers not only Mesopotamian egg cups, but the hunting and use of ostriches, and ostriches in the art and culture, of ancient Rome, Palestine, Arabia, Egypt, Africa & China, and the contemporary farming of ostriches in Africa and America. Softcover. 5.5"x8.5", 51 pages, 10 line illustrations and 9 full-page b/w plates. Light cover soil.

Inventory #: 32230 Price: $ 20.00