Islamic Art

ABEL, Armand.

Gaibi et les Grands Faienciers Egyptiens d'Epoque Mamlouke avec un catalogue de leurs oeuvres conservees au musee d'art arabe du Caire.

Cairo. Musee Arabe du Caire. 1930. 4to. pp. vii, 115. 146 illustrations on 31 plates. Hardback. Ownership signature on front free endpaper.

£100

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ARBERRY, Arthur J.

The Koran Illuminated. A Handlist of the Korans in the Chester Beatty Library.

Dublin. Hodges, Figgis & Co. 1967. Small 4to. pp. xxvii, 82. Illustrated with colour frontispiece and 70 hors-texte plates on rectos only, of which 10 are colour. Original cloth.

£95

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ARCHER, Mildred.

Indian Popular Painting in the India Office Library.

London. HMSO. 1979. 4to. pp. xii, 196 (excl. plates). 6 colour, 92 monchrome plates. Cloth.

2nd impression. The first authoritative work on the India Office's collection of over 500 Indian ... (more)

£40

ref: 23922

ARIF PACHA.

Les Anciens Costumes de l'Empire Ottoman depuis l'Origine de la Monarchie jusqu'à la Reforme du Sultan Mahmoud.

Paris. Lemercier. (1863). Folio. pp. 47. Illustrated with lithograph title, portrait frontispiece, description of plates and 16 lithographed costume plates printed in colours after Arif. Later green cloth, red leather label pasted to spine.

This copy with text in French, there was also a Turkish edition, published in the same year with a ... (more)

£8,000

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BAHGAT BEY, Ali & Felix Massoul.

La Ceramique Musulmane de l'Egypte.

Cairo. Publications du Musée Arabe du Caire. 1930. Folio. pp. 96. 85 plates, 8 in colour. A very good copy in original boards.

With a preface by Gaston Wiet.

£1,750

ref: 20680

BAHRAMI, Mehdi.

Gurgan Faiences.

Cairo. Le Scribe Egyptien. 1949. 4to. pp. 134. With 98 hors-texte plates, printed on rectos only, and numerous text illustrations. Publisher's cloth; spine slightly faded.

Scholarly study of the specialised form of faience pottery produced in the Iranian city of Gurgan. Most of the examples were produced between the second half of the twelfth century and the first quarter of the thirteenth century.

£50

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BIRDWOOD, George C. M.

The Industrial Arts of India. New edition.

London. Chapman and Hall. 1880. Two parts in one 8vo. volume. pp. xvi, 344, 32 (publisher's catalogue.). Folding map & 91 plates. Publisher's cloth, bumped on forecorners. Inner front hinge cracked, Prize label on front pastedown.

A wide-ranging study, based on the collections at the South Kensington Museum. It includes a ... (more)

£60

ref: 33619

BLOCHET, E.

Les Enluminures des Manuscrits Orientaux - Turcs, Arabes, Persans - de la Bibliothèque Nationale.

Paris. Editions de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts. 1926. Folio. pp. 163. Illustrated with 127 plates, of which 4 are in colour. Original buckram.

From the edition limited to 510 copies.
Most of the reproductions are of Persian works from the mid-13th to the mid-17th centuries. It also covers Indian works from the reigns of the Grand Moghuls.

£550

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BOGOLUBOW COLLECTION.

Central Asian Tapestries. From the Collection Assembled by A. Bogolubow.

Leipzig. Karl W. Hiersemann. 1908. Folio. pp. 24; 24 (text present in German, Russian and French). Illustrated with 36 large colour lithographs and 7 monochrome plates. Loose as issued in original publisher's printed cloth portfolio, each plate with discreet stamp of 'L. Ginzkey, Maffersdorf', not affecting images.

£4,000

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CAIRO, Musee de l'Art Arabe du Caire.

La Ceramique Egyptienne de l'Epoque Musulmane. Publiee sous les auspices du Comite de Conservation des Monuments de l'Art Arabe.

Basel. Musee de l'Art Arabe du Caire. 1922. Folio. pp. (4). 142 plates, 6 in colour. Loose as issued in original portfolio.

A landmark work on the early Egyptian Islamic ceramics in the Arab Museum in Cairo, illustrating faience & pottery from the 10th to the 15th centuries.

£2,750

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De MORGAN, M.J.; de Mecquenem, R de; Conteau, G; Scheil, V and others.

Delegation en Perse. Memoires.

Paris. Ernest Leroux & others. 1900-1953. 4to. 33 numbers bound in 18 volumes. Profusely illustrated with photographs, drawings, diagrams and maps in black and white, duotone and colour. Bound in blue buckram. With the ex libris of Robin Symes.

From the library of Sir Max Mallowan with occasional manuscript mostly in his hand. Volume 6 has 2 ... (more)

£11,500

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GHIRSHMAN, Roman, Vladimir Minorsky & Ramesh Sanghvi.

Persia: the Immortal Kingdom. Photographs by William MacQuitty.

London. Transorient. 1971. Folio. pp. 224. Illustrated throughout in colour, with large format plates, portrait miniatures, facsimiles of manuscripts and so on. Original publisher's cloth, printed endpapers, dust-jacket and vitrine slipcase.

Published to commemorate 2,500 years since the foundation of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great, each of the authors has written a chapter: Ghirshman 'the Classical Age', Minorsky 'the Medieval Age' and 'Introduction' and 'Iran Today and Tomorrow'.

£70

ref: 25010

GROTE-HASENBALG, Werner.

Der Orientteppiche seine Geschichte und seine Kultur. 3 vols.

Berlin. Scarabaeus-Verlag. 1922. 3 vols. Large square 8vo. pp. xiii, 228. Vol 1: Colour frontispiece with guardleaf, 24 plates (115 in colour), 7 plates of designs, 1 map. Vol. 2: 60 colour plates mounted on card. Vol. 3: 60 colour plates mounted on card. Publisher's cloth.

£675

ref: 17295

HENDLEY, Thomas Holbein.

Indian Jewellery.

London. The Journal of Indian Art. 1909. 4to. Illustrated with 167 plates including 32 in colour illustrating over 1,100 pieces of jewellery each identified in caption texts. Ex library. Re-bound in red buckram. Call data on spine, library label on front free endpaper, stamp on verso of title page, top edge of book block stamped, no other markings

The scholarly text and superb corpus of illustration were extracted from The Journal of Indian Art.

£2,500

ref: 27779

JONES, O.

Plans, elevations, sections and details of the Alhambra from drawings taken on ... (more)

London. Published for Owen Jones. 1842 - 1845. 2 vols. Large folio. Contents: Vol.1: verse leaf ... (more)

During his Grand Tour, which included Constantinople and Cairo, Jones became fascinated with Islamic ... (more)

£7,500

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