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Region: Middle East

Catalogue of an exhibition, held in London and Manchester, illustrating in fine colour plates the Jordanian mosaics on loan to Sotheby's dating from the late Roman and early Byzantine periods and orignally located at Jerash, Nebo and Madaba.

Theory & Practice: Ancient Books & Documents

Auction catalogue of duplicates from the unique collection of early printed books published, in the main, by Aldus Manutius in Venice during the late C15th and early C16th, assembled by the bibliophile Earl Spencer in the early C19th, and subsequently donated to the John Rylands Library in the 18

Theory & Practice: Ancient Books & Documents

A magnificent auction catalogue to a single lot.  The Ottheinrich Bible is incomparably the finest surviving manuscript of the German vernacular Bible originally commissioned around 1430 by Ludwig VII.

Theory & Practice: Art History

A sumptuous catalogue of an exhibition in two halves - the first is that of artefacts elucidating the close political and trade ties between England and Russia in the C16th and C17th; the second is a display of the very finest silver gilt flagons, cups and dishes manufactured in England by the gr

Region: China/Japan/Korea

Chapters on: Ming Glass; Imperial Patronage of Ming Porcelain; Abbasid Ceramics; Mamluk Incense Burners; 1900 Inventory of the Beijing Summer Palace. Hardbck. 106 pages. New condition. Cat No 1914.

Region: Middle East

A sumptuous work illustrating the very best examples of early Islamic art - calligraphy, painting, metalwork, ceramics, glass, jewellery and textiles. 140 prime examples have a large full colour plate to themselves. Introduction describes the collection. 157 pages. Hardback.