Author: TYSZKIEWICZ, MICHAL & ALFRED HARTMANN[Collections]. Auction catalogues 1898 - 1899.
Title: Collection d'antiquités du Comte Michel Tyszkiewicz [Décrite par W. Froeher]. Vente au enchères publiques [...] Hotel des Commisaires-Priseurs [...] Les Mercredi 8, Jeudi 9 et Venredi 10 Juin 1898.
Description: Paris, E. Moreau et Cie, 1898. 97 pp. 33 b./w. plts (photo engravings). - [AND:] Vente [...] Collection M. Alfred Hartmann. Catalogue des antiquités. Poterie étrusque, grecque et romaine, terres cuites, verrerie, bronzes, marbre, médailles grecques, romaines et byzantines dont la vente aura lieu Hotel Drouot, [...] Le samedi 15 Avril 1899. [Paris], 1899. 15,[4] pp. 5 b./w. plts (photo engravings). - Two complete catalogue sections, bound together in a modern hardcover binding (burgundy red cloth with gilt lettering). 4to. - Only the second catalogue section (Hartmann collection) is mentioned on the binding.Set of two original late ninteenth century auction catalogue sections, one of the sale of antique objects from the collections of Alfred Hartmann (84 items) and one very rare catalogue of the sale of antique objects from the collection of Michel Tyszkiewicz (312 items). - - Count Michal [or Michel] Tyszkiewicz (1828 - 1897) was an outstanding Polish-Lithuanian nobleman collector of antiquities and an amateur Egyptologist. He was a pioneer of Polish archaeological excavations in Egypt conducted in late 1861 and early 1862, which yielded a generous donation of 194 Egyptian antiquities to the Paris Louvre. He was a member of the Polish Tyszkiewicz family.

Keywords: Archaeology Greece Roma Archeologie Griekenland Rome