Ending 21st Apr, 2024 14:00

Olympia Timed Spring 2024

 
Lot 187
 

187

ISLAMIC ARMS AND ARMOUR: SEVEN VOLUMES

comprising: Splendour of Oriental Arms, Paris, 1988; Elgood, Robert (ed.), Islamic Arms and Armour, London, 1979 (cased); Dr Artan, Tulay (trans. and ed.), Splendors of the Ottoman Sultans, Memphis, 1992 (cover detached); Hirmer, Die Karlsruher Turkenbeute, Munich, 1991; Nicolle, David, Early Medieval Islamic Arms and Armour, Instituto de Estudios Sobre Armas Antiguas, 1976 (signed by the author, slight wear); Ayalon, David, The Mumluk Military Society: Collected Studies, London, 1979; and Stone, George Cameron, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armour, New York, 1961 (wear to jacket) (7 volumes)

Provenance

Edward McEwen (1934-2020)

Sold for £240


 

comprising: Splendour of Oriental Arms, Paris, 1988; Elgood, Robert (ed.), Islamic Arms and Armour, London, 1979 (cased); Dr Artan, Tulay (trans. and ed.), Splendors of the Ottoman Sultans, Memphis, 1992 (cover detached); Hirmer, Die Karlsruher Turkenbeute, Munich, 1991; Nicolle, David, Early Medieval Islamic Arms and Armour, Instituto de Estudios Sobre Armas Antiguas, 1976 (signed by the author, slight wear); Ayalon, David, The Mumluk Military Society: Collected Studies, London, 1979; and Stone, George Cameron, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armour, New York, 1961 (wear to jacket) (7 volumes)

Provenance

Edward McEwen (1934-2020)

Auction: Olympia Timed Spring 2024, ending 21st Apr, 2024

 

Including:

Antique Arms & Armour

Asian Works of Art

Fine Art Books, Including Books from Three Specialist Libraries of Indian and South-East Asian Art Reference Books

Works by Nadira Azzouz (Iraqi 1927-2020)

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