Watch List notes:

Various authors. Lot of two (2) volumes on Scythian gold artifacts. (Ukraine, USA, 1999-2000). Includes: (1) Scythian Gold. Ellen Reeder, author. (The Walters Art Gallery / Henry Abrams, 1999.) Hardbound, 352 pages. In 1999, four Ukrainian museums combined their treasures and their scholarship to produce a traveling exhibit, "Gold of the Nomads: Sythian Treasures from Ancient Ukraine." Reeder, curator of ancient art at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, does an excellent job of bringing together authorities in various areas of Scythian culture with color photographs of the artifacts. (2) The Golden Deer of Eurasia, Joan Aruz, editor. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000.) Hardbound, 350 pages with text and illustrations documenting further discoveries of Scythian gold artifacts in Filippovka, Russia. TWO BOOKS IN LOT. Very Fine condition. Both with original dust jackets, the first with a few light marks.


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