Illustrated dictionary of 17th century Flemish painters. 3 volumes. Ed. La Renai…

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Illustrated dictionary of 17th century Flemish painters. 3 volumes. Ed. La Renaissance du Livre.

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Illustrated dictionary of 17th century Flemish painters. 3 volumes. Ed. La Renaissance du Livre.

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[ART] LIEDTKE (Walter A). Flemish Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1984. 2 volumes, in-4 format, hard covers in slipcase. Numerous illustrations in color / black in / out of text. Excellent condition.

Estim. 200 - 250 EUR

SABIN (Joseph). Bibliotheca Americana. A Dictionary of Books relating to America, from its Discovery to the Present Time. Amsterdam, N. Israel, 1961-1962. 29 volumes in 15 vol. in-8, black bradel boards with red title page, publisher's binding. Fine reprint of the first edition published from 1868 to 1936. This important bibliography was begun by Joseph Sabin, continued by Wilberforce Eames and completed by R. W. G. Vail for the Bibliographical Society of America.

Estim. 3 000 - 4 000 EUR

Sumerian Alabaster Eye Idol. 4th-3rd millennium B.C. Formed as a squat, oblate body and dressed upper with two piercings forming eyes; flat underside. See parallel idols in Louvre Museum, accession number SB 9141, for similar; Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no.1988.323.8; British Museum, excavated by Professor Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, inv. Nos.126473, 126477 and 126479; see also Collon, D., Ancient Near Eastern Art, London, 1995, p.47, for type; for the discussion on Tell Brak, their iconography and the religious meaning of eye idol see Green, J.B. & T.R., Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia, An illustrated dictionary, London, 1992, pp.78-79. 298 grams, 72 mm (2 7/8 in.). Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12186-222131. (For this specific lot, 5% import VAT is applicable on the hammer price.)

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