Japanese Glass . .

SCYTHIAN Art . 19 x 16.5. Pictorial Card. VG. 129pp . Catalogue of 114 items of Scythian art with Russian Text. 13 col plates plus over 100 objects illus in b/w/

Ancient Glass - in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1980. 1st. 28x22. Black cloth. Mint. 153pp with 274 illus inc 42 in colour. Full description and illustration of each of the 274 pieces of ancient glass in the Museum. Includes early Greek core-formed glass, Roman and Islamic glass..One of the most useful books for identifying and dating forms of ancient glass

Glass of the Caesars Olivetti, Milan, 1987. 1st. 4to. Ill Soft Covers. Very Good. xv+313pp. Features 161 major examples of the finest Roman Glass with full descriptions, colour plates and ills of each piece.

A.I.H.V. Annales Du 12th Congres De L'Association Internationale Pour L'Histoire Du Verre Vienna 26-31 August 1991 AIHV, Amsterdam, 1993. 1st. 23x16. Ill Card Covers. Very Good. x +566pp with hundreds of b/w photos amongst text. Findings of the 12th Congress of the International Association for the History of Glass. Included are papers on: Glass inlays in Phoenician ivories and stone; Glass working before glass blowing; Roman glass unguentaria in Greece; Fragments of late Roman cage cups; Chemical analuses of some ancient glasses from Korea; Aspects of early Medieval glass production in Britain; Glass from Quseir al-Qadim; Kohl bottles from Islamic periods excavated in Israel; Glass mirrors in Medieval times; Manufactured glassware as seen in 13th to 14th century painting; Spanish Glass. Many other papers on a wide variety of topics

A.I.H.V. Annales of the 14th Congress of the International Association for the History of Glass Vanazia-Milano 1998 AIHV, Lochem, 2000. 1st. 29.5 x 21. Pict Card Cover. Very Good.. x + 442pp with hundreds b/w illus, maps & diagrams. Findings of the 14th Congress of the International Association for the History of Glass held in Venice and Milan 1998. Contains 93 papers given at the congress, including: Mycenaean glass beads; Ribbed glass bowls from Slovenia; Gold glasses from the Catacomb; Roman export glass at Aila; Early Islamic glass from al-Fustat; Glass vessels of a Fatimid hoard; Glass objects from Moscow in 12th-14th centuries; Ion-beam analysis of Medieval glass; Late Medieval Venetian glass and Ruby glass of the Baroque period. Mixed language text

A.I.H.V. Annales of the 15th Congress of the International Association for the History of Glass. New York-Corning 2001 AIHV, Nottingham, 2003. 1st. 29.5 x 21. Pictorial Card Cover. Very Good.. viii + 268pp with hundreds of b/w illus, maps and diagrams. Findings of thr 15th Congress of the International Association for the History of Glass, held in New York and Corning in 2001. Contains 56 papers on a wide variety of matters related to glass, including: The glass beakers of Nesikhons; Glass and gold on Macedonian funerary couches; Glass enamel on 4th century BC Macedonian gold wreath; Achaemenian glass production; Ancient glass at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, two recent acquisitions; Composition and technology of mosaic vessel glass from the early Roman empire; The iconography of the Getty skyphos; Prismatic glass bottles with Greek inscriptions from Arycanda; Glass from an early Medieval settlement in Switzerland; Tang Dynasty glass cups recently excavated in China and Early Islamic cameo glass in the Corning Museum. Mixed language text, mainly English

A.I.H.V. Bulletin de l'Association Internationale pour l'Historie Du Verre No.8 1977-1980 AIHV, Liege, 1980. 1st. 24x16. Ill Card Covers. Fine. 250pp with 91 b/w illus amongst text. This volume of the Bulletin of the International Association for History of Glass concentrates on glass manufacture in the British Isles. Covers: Pre-Roman glass; Roman glass found in UK; Roman glass other than British; Early Medieval glass; Glass of the High Medieval period; 16th-17th century English glass; Continental glass of the Renaissance and the seventeenth century; British glass 1680-1830; 18th century foreign glass; British glass 1830-1900; 19th century foreign glass

A.I.H.V. Bulletin de l'Association Internationale pour l'Historie Du Verre No.8 1977-1980 AIHV, Liege, 1980. 1st. 24x16. Ill Card Covers. Fine. 250pp with 91 b/w illus amongst text. This volume of the Bulletin of the International Association for History of Glass concentrates on glass manufacture in the British Isles. Covers: Pre-Roman glass; Roman glass found in UK; Roman glass other than British; Early Medieval glass; Glass of the High Medieval period; 16th-17th century English glass; Continental glass of the Renaissance and the seventeenth century; British glass 1680-1830; 18th century foreign glass; British glass 1830-1900; 19th century foreign glass

ABDUL- HAK, Selim & ABDUL- HAK, Andree Catalogue Illustre Du Departement Des Antiquites Greco - Romaines Au Musee De Damas Directeur General Des Antiquites De Syrie, Damas, 1951. 1st. Soft Cover closed tears. VG. 180pp with 60 pages of plates incorporating 126 b/w photos. Catalogue of Greek and Roman antiquities in the Damascus Museum Syria including the glass collection. French text

AHARONI, Yohanan The Archaeology of the Land of Israel from the Prehistoric Beginnings to the End of the First Temple Period Westminster Press, Philadelphia, 1978. 1st. 22 x 15. Pictorial Card Cover. VG. xvii + 344pp with 55 mono photos, 88 figs and 31 plates of drawings. Sections on the Prehistoric Era; Chalcolithic period; Canaanite period and Israelite period;

ALCON Teresa Ruiz Vidrio Y Cristal De La Granja CSIC, Madrid, 1969. 1st. 22.5 X16.5. Pictorial Card. Very Good. 43pp plus 48 plates (12 in colour). Spanish text

ALEXANDER Pat (Ed) The Lion Encyclopedia of the Bible . 26 x 17. Pictorial Card. Very Good. 352pp with numerous colour illustrations

AMAYA, Mario Tiffany Glass Studio Vista, London , 1967. Grey cloth. Very Good./Very Good dw. 84pp with numerous illustrations, some in colour

AMIRAN, Ruth Ancient Pottery of the Holy Land Massada Press, Israel, 1969. 1st English. 28x22. Red cloth gilt. VG+/VG dw with small Tears. 306pp with 350 b/w photos + colfrontis and 101 plates containing 1252 drawings of pottery vessels. A useful book cataloguing and dating all the types of ancient pottery found in Canaan/Israel/Jordan with locations. Covers the period from Neolithic ( 6th millenium BC) to Iron Age II (800-586 BC). It includes imported pottery from Cyprus, Egypt, Crete, Rhodes and Phoenicia. The photos combined with plates illustrate over 1600 items of pottery. Probably the most comprehensive and useful study of ancient pottery of the Holy Land ever made and very useful for dating and identifying items. English text

ANGUS-BUTTERWORTH L.M. British Table and Ornamental Glass Leanord Hill, London , 1956. 1st. 25x19. Red cloth gilt . Very Good +/None. 123 + xvi pp + 216 b/w illus. One of the classic works covering, amongst others, Bristol, Nailsea, Waterford, Jacobite, Beilby, Ravenscroft, Apsley Pallat, Powell, Brierley, Stevens Williams, Webb, Stuart, Hills, Stourbridge, Edinburgh, Richardsons, Sowerbys and Chance glass manufacture

ARCHEOLOGIA Jerusalem 5000 Years of History Archeologia S.A., Dijon, 1992. 1st. 28 x 21. Pictorial Cover. Very Good. 137 pp. Special English edition ofthe French Archeologia Journals giving a history of the archaeology of Jerusalem over a 5000 year period. Contributions by 24 different authors on subjects ranging from Solomon's Temple to The Crusaders and beyond. Colour plates.

ARNOLD, Hugh Stained Glass of The Middle Ages in England & France Adam and Charles Black, London , 1939. 3rd. 23.5 x 17.5. Red cloth. Very Good. xiv + 269pp plus 50 coloured plates. Study of stained glass from twelfth to fifteenth century. Ex Library but very good considering age

ARTS P. L. W. A Collection of Ancient Glass Antiek, Lochem, 2000. 1st. 25x20. Pict Soft Cover. Mint. 140pp with 87 col illus & 3 line drawings. Author's private collection of ancient glass which ranges from Core formed glass of the classical Greek period, through Hellenistic to Roman and on to Byzantine. Each of the 85 items in the collection has a detailed individual description, including dating and technique, with colour photo. Some beautiful plates of diverse and quality items of glass.

ARVEILLER-DULONG, Veronique & NENNA, Marie-Dominique Les Verres Antiques - Du Musée Du Louvre Volume 3 Somogy, Paris, 2011. 1st. 28.6 x 25.3. Pictorial Boards. Mint. 440pp richly illustrated with colour illus. This is the third and final volume of ancient glass in the Louvre Museum faturing 709 items each one with colour illustration and description. Includes Core formed pendants, pressed glass pendants of gods and godesses, pendants of human heads , fruit and birds, medallions of various subjects, pressed glass suspension pendants of animals, small core formed jugs as pendants, glass beads of all variety, glass ring bezels, glass finger rings, bracelets, amulets and inlays, glass hairpins, spoons, mirrors,sewing needles, stirring rods, spindle worls, weights and Egyptian mosiac inlays. French text