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BARRADAS, JOSE PEREZ DE:  Orfebreria Prehispanicade de Colombia. Estilos Tolimay Muisca  Texto / Laminas. Obra Basada en el Estudio de las Colecciones del Museo del Oro del Banco de la Republica, Bogota.
Madrid: 1958.
Two volumes. 4to, pp. 385 & 20. The first volume illustrated by plates and figures in the text, the 2nd volume with 287 plates. Original cloth in edge worn, browned and spotted dustwrappers; text age toned. 
Quote Item No. 10044

Price:  £43.00

BOURBON, FABIO: Egypt Yesterday and Today.  Lithographs and Diaries by David Roberts, R.A.
Shrewsbury:  Swan Hill Press, 1996.
Profusely illustrated in colour.  Folio, pp.270, original gold cloth in dustwrapper;   binding very good; a couple of small nicks to lower edge of dustwrapper; internally, armorial bookplate to front pastedown; generally an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 8720
Price: £30.00

DE MEULENAERE, HERMAN:  Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth Century Painting.
P. & V. Berko, 1992.
Profusely illustrated in colour.  Oblong 4to, pp.147, original grey cloth in dustwrapper;  slight chip to rear top-edge of dustwrapper;  very slight indent to top corner of the pages;  generally very good.  
Quote Item No. 8353
Price:  £30.00

FORRER, MATTHI:  Hiroshige.  Prints and Drawings.
London:  Prestel and the Royal Academy of Arts, 1997.
Exhibition catalogue published to coincide with the exhibition "Hiroshige", Royal Academy of Arts, 3 July-28 September, 1997.  Illustrated in colour and black & white.  Large 4to, pp.255, original orange cloth in dustwrapper;  a large ink presentation inscription on half-title;  an excellent copy. 
Quote Item No. 7182
Price:   £20.00

HARLE, J.C:  The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent.  Part of "The Pelican History of Art" series.
London:  Pelican Books, 1986.
Profusely illustrated in black & white.  8vo, pp.600, paperback edition; crease to spine and lower front corner, edge-rubbed but internally excellent. 
Quote Item No. 5628
Price:   £9.00

ISLAM:   Arts of the Islamic World.  Volume, No. 4.
London: Islamic Arts Foundation, Winter 1983/4.
Well illustrated in colour. 4to, pp.74, original laminated wrappers; very good.  
Quote Item No. 4562
Price:   £10.00

LANGE, KURT;  HIRMER, MAX;  OTTO, EBERHARD;  DESROCHES-NOBLECOURT, CHRISTIANE:  L'Egypte.
Paris:  Flammarion, 1968.
French text.  Comprehensively and finely illustrated from photographs on 270 plates, together with maps and illustrations in the text.  4to, pp.194 (text), original orange cloth, no dustwrapper;  an excellent copy. 
Quote Item No. 4976
Price:  £30.00

NGUYET, TUYET [Editor]:  Arts of Asia. Volume 15, No. 1.
Hong Kong:  Arts of Asia, January-February 1985.
Well illustrated including special article "Arab Furniture of the Nineteenth Century". 4to, pp.140, original laminated wrappers; very good. 
Quote Item No. 4563 
Price:£10.00 

RANDHAWA, M.S.:  Kangra Paintings of the Bhagavata Purana.
New Delhi: National Museum of India, 1960.
First edition.  Many tipped-in coloured & other plates. Folio, pp.99, original tan cloth with coloured pictorial onlay on upper cover as issued; joints a little creased, binding slightly marked but generally very good. 
Quote Item No. 8858

Price:  £25.00

ROBERTS, DAVID:  The Holy Land.  123 Coloured Facsimile Lithographs and The Journal from His Visit to The Holy Land.
Israel:  Terra Sancta Arts, 1982.
Five parts in one volume.  Profusely illustrated.  Folio, original maroon vinyl in dustwrapper contained in matching slip-case;  one very short creased tear to bottom edge of dustwrapper and a tiny amount of rubbing to some edges;  generally an excellent copy. 
Quote Item No. 8739
Price:  £48.00

STRANGE, EDWARD F:  Japanese Colour Prints.
London:  Victoria & Albert Museum, 1931.
Sixth edition. 84 black & white plates. 8vo, pp xii:164, softcover; binding and page edges browned and with pieces chipped from the edges and both ends of spine; internally, good.
Quote Item No. 654
Price:   £9.00 

STROMMENGER, EVA: The Art of Mesopotamia.
London:  Thames & Hudson (as per title-page and base of spine), 1964.  Reader's Union Edition (as per dustwrapper).
First English editon.  Colour and black & white plates.  Folio, pp.480, original speckled blue cloth in dustwrapper;  binding with one corner bumped else very good; dustwrapper with a number of short tears and creasing along edges, spine slightly browned and with some marks to upper cover; internally, a small rectangle of faint discolouration on title page, page edges very slightly browned otherwise excellent; armorial bookplate to front pastedown.
Quote Item No. 8721
Price:  £98.00

WHITFIELD, RODERICK  and  FARRER, ANNE: Caves of the Thousand Buddhas. Chinese art from the Silk Route.
London: British Museum, 1990.
Coloured plates. 4to, pp.208, original cloth; very good in like dustwrapper. 
Quote Item No. 10568
Price:  £24.00

WILLETTS, WILLIAM:  Foundations of Chinese Art from Neolithic Pottery to Modern Architecture.
Singapore:  Donald Moore Press, 1965.
Illustrated in colour and black & white.  Large 4to, pp.456, original blue cloth lettered in silver on spine in dustwrapper;  corners of binding and dustwrapper bumped;  dustwrapper chipped and slightly torn in a number of places (tiny amount of loss);  slightly dusty along top edges, despite all, a very good copy. 
Quote Item No. 6945
Price:  £16.00

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