A Group of 20 Books

Ancient Near Eastern Art & Archaeology with References, dating from 1934-1996

Property from a California Private Collection

Comprising:

L. Wooly, Ur of the Chaldees (Pelican Books, Reprinted with Revisions 1950);

J.B. Pritchard, Recovering Sarepta, A Phoenician City: Excavations at Sarafand, Lebanon, 19-69-1974, by The University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 1978);

G. Roux, Ancient Iraq (George Allen & Unwin Ltd 1963) *Soft back copy with synopsis postcard stapled to the front;

G. Roux, Ancient Iraq (George Allen & Unwin Ltd 1964) *Hard back copy;

W.G. Lambert, Babylonian Wisdom Literature (Oxford University Press, Revised Edition 1975) *Ex libris of J.R Barthet;

B.B. Williams, Excavations Between Abu Simbel and the Sudan Frontier Vol. IX: Noubadian X-Group Remains from Royal Complexes in Cemeteries Q and 219 and from Private Cemeteries Q, R, V, W, B, J and M at Qustul and Ballana (Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1991) *x2;

E. Grant & G.E. Wright, Ain Shems Excavations (Palestine): Part IV (Pottery) (Pennsylvania, Biblical and Kindred Studies No. 7, Haverford College 1938);

E. Grant, Rumeileh Being Ain Shems Excavations (Palestine) Part III (Haverford College, Haverford, PA 1934) *Loose maps in back;

Y. Yadein, Y. Aharoni, R. Amiran, T. Dothan, M. Dothan, I. Dunayevsky, & J. Perrot, Hazor III-IV: An Account of the Third and Forth Seasons of Excavations, 1957-1958 (The James A. Rothschild Expedition at Hazor, Jerusalem 1961);

T. Bowie, et al., East-West in Art: Patterns of Cultural & Aesthetic Relationships (Indiana University Press 1966);

T.N. Mukharji, Art-manufacturers of India (New Delhi, Navarang, Reprinted Edition 1974);

M. Murray, My First Hundred Years (London, William Kinmber & Co. Limited, Second Edition 1993) *Ex libris of Brian V. McEvedy, Manchester, England, collector and surgeon with interest in Egyptology. With a loose Kanga & Roo Postcard ca. 1991 addressed to his children;

M. Murray, My First Hundred Years (London, William Kinmber & Co. Limited, Second Edition 1993) *Ex libris of S. Ward;

P. von Zabern, Waren sie nur schön? : Frauen im Spiegel der Jahrtausende (Mainz am Rhein, Verlag Philipp von Zabern 1989);

H.V.F. Winstone, Gertrude Bell (New York, Quartet Books Inc. 1978);

W. Hermann, R. Neudecker, et al,. Archäologische Bibliographie: 1991 (Berlin, Walter De Gruyter & Co. 1992);

In Pursuit of the Absolute Art of the Ancient World: From the George Ortiz Collection (London, Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition Catalogue 1996);

P. Hamlyn, Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology (Readers Union 1961);

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Jacob Coley

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Mr. Coley joined the Antiquities department in 2021 after working as Managing Director in the Ancient Art department at Colnaghi, the world’s oldest commercial art gallery, where he helped to establish the Ancient Art department and launched Colnaghi New York in 2017. Prior to Colnaghi, Mr. Coley was in the Greek and Roman Art department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. Coley holds a B.A. from the University of Miami and an M.A. in Art Market from the Fashion Institute of Technology, and he earned an art-appraisal certificate from New York University.

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