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Lot 152
Sale 800 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Lots 1-273
Nov 12, 2020
4:00AM CT
Lots 274-476
Nov 13, 2020
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Live / Chicago
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[MIDDLE EASTERN ART]. POPE, Arthur U. (1881-1969) and ACKERMANN, Phyllis (1893-1977), editors. A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1938-1939.
6 volumes, large folio. Half-titles, titles printed in blue and black, 1,482 plates, a few in color, numerous in-text illustrations. Original publisher’s blue cloth gilt (sunning to spines, a few scuffs, rubbing to extremities, old adhesive remnants to upper cover of vol.IV).
FIRST EDITION of Pope’s survey of Persian art, architecture, and material culture, published under the auspices of the American Institute for Iranian Art and Archaeology. Pope was a pioneer in the study of Persian art, heritage, and culture, and he was an important collector, curator, and art dealer.
Property from a Prominent Chicago Collection