DEVILLE, Achille Historie De L'art De La Verrerie Dans L'Antiquite Morel, Paris, 1873. 1st. 32x25. Quarter Leather raised Bands . VG. 108pp. of descriptive text plus 112 full page beautifully engraved colour plates (each plate per single leaf). History of ancient glass. Egyptian, Phoenician, Roman from Eastern & Western Empire and Merovingian. French text. Beautiful binding contemporary with print, in quarter leather with raised bands and gilt decoration, marbled boards, teg. A wonderful book. Some foxing but in very good condition for its age. Scarce

FROEHNER Wilhelm Collection Julien Gréau Verrerie Antique, Émaillerie et Poterie Appartenant à M. John Pierpont Morgan Paris, 1903. First and only Edition. Half-Morocco t.e.g. . Very Good. LIMITED EDITION. ONLY 90 SETS produced. In six parts, of which five are entirely of hand coloured plates and the other of text. This set # 73 of 90. Bound in three volumes, two of plates and the other of text, in French. Contemporary binding, brown half-morocco, marbled boards and endpapers, titles gilt to spines, banded in six compartments. Plate volumes each 56cm x 38cm (elephant folio) and text volume 32cm x 23cm (Quarto). Text 309 pp. Total 363 plates printed/ hand coloured recto side of leaf only, on very heavy paper. A few pages incorporate more than one plate under the numbering system. This is a record of the ancient glass collection of Julien Greau as catalogued by the Curator of the Louvre Museum, Wilhelm Froehner and described by him. Julien Greau was one of the great collectors of the 19th century. He died in 1895. His ancient glass collection comprised some 5000 pieces of which 1000 were intact and many unique examples. Greau was keen for the collection to end up in a major museum. The bulk of the collection was bought by J. P. Morgan who bequeathed it to the Metropolitan Museum, where it arrived in 1917 and it today forms the major core of their collection. Morgan oversaw the publication of this catalogue. A minor part of the collection went to the Louvre Museum and also to French private collections. These are included in the Catalogue. This catalogue also include a selection of Roman Pottery collected by Greau. The plates contain literally thousands of specimens of ancient glass, each example exquisitely hand painted in the catalogue. They are a work of art in themselves. The examples of glass portrayed in this work are some of the most important and rarest specimens of ancient glass known. Without doubt this has to be the King of books on ancient glass and the plates alone must have taken weeks to paint. The last complete set of this work sold at public auction fetched Pounds £36,000 (Sotheby's London 14 October 2004 Lot 324)

SALDERN, Dr. Axel Von Antikes Glas - Handbuch Der Archäologie C. H. Beck, München, 2004. 1st. 24 x 16. Black cloth gilt. Fine/Fine in Slip Case. 740pp., 76 in-text illustrations, 406 illustrations on 64 plates. A monumental compendium on ancient glass by Professor Axel von Saldern one of the greatest living authorities on the subject. Many years have been spent in the production of this work and it is one of the most comprehensive studies ever meade of ancient glass and incorporates all the latest knowledge. The time span ranges from the second millenimum B.C. to late antiquity. He covers glass findings in ancient Mediterranean civilizations geographically: Mesopotamia, Persia, the Black Sea region and the area north of the Alps, as well as Gaul and Britain. The first part of the book recounts the history of pre-Roman glass. The second section is devoted to Roman glass and of all the techniques employed. An appendix covers the chemistry and manufacturing technique, the tools used, trade and packaging, heirlooms, repair and also forgeries. German text

SOTHEBY'S The Constable-Maxwell Collection of Ancient Glass Sotheby's, London , 1979. 26x19. Green cloth Gilt. Very Good/Very Good. 209pp with 95 col and 127 b/w plates. Auction catalogue of 355 pieces of ancient glass offered for sale at Sorheby's London in 1979. One of the most important ancient glass collections ever offered for public sale. Dates range from 18th Dynasty Egyptian through to Islamic and with one piece of 14th/15th cent medieval glass. Sale also included an extremely rare cage-cup. With estimates and prices realized.