ALLAN, James W.

Nishapur: Metalwork of the Early Islamic Period.

New York. 1982. 28.5 x 22cm. pp. 120. 209 illustrations, map. Cloth. Fine.

A catalogue of the silver, bronze, lead & iron finds, mainly personal & household objects, from the medieval town of Nishapur.

£54

ref: 37892

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

ref: 24712

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 portrait frontispiece, description of plates and 16 lithographed costume plates printed in colours after Arif. This copy lacks the lithograph title. Contemporary quarter morocco, repaired.

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

£8,000

ref: 27324

BIR COLLECTION. Seiwert, Wolf-Dieter.

Jewellery from the Orient. Treasures from the Bir Collection.

Stuttgart. Arnoldsche. 2009. 30.5 x 23.5cm. pp. 320. Over 750 pieces illustrated in on approx. 440 colour plates. Hardback in dust jacket. New.

£45

ref: 37046

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.

£3,500

ref: 38720

FALK, S.J.

Qajar Paintings. Persian Oil Paintings of the 18th and 19th Centuries.

London. Faber. 1972. 30.5 x 21.5cm. pp. 64. 63 colour and 25 black & white plates on unnumbered pages. Hardback in dust jacket.

The colour plates illustrated complete collection of Qajar Paintings built up by Julian Amery and sold through Sothebys to the the Empress of Iran in 1963. 25 b. & w. illustrations illustrate other paintings from England, Russia & Persia.

£30

ref: 37905

FALK, Toby (Editor).

Treasures of Islam. Published in association with the Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva.

London. Sotheby's / Philip Wilson Publishers. 1985. 4to. pp. 400. Colour illustrations of over 567 objects. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. Fine.

Catalogue for an exhibition of Islamic treasures held at the Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva in ... (more)

£80

ref: 37887

HENDLEY, Thomas Holbein.

Asian Carpets: XVI & XVII Century Carpet Designs from the Jaipur Palaces, &c. &c.

London. W. Griggs of Peckham. 1905. 2 vols. in 1. Folio. pp. 20. Chromolithograph title page ... (more)

A fine survey of the carpets in the collection of H.H. the Maharaja of Jaipur & others. Many of the patterns were drawn by draughtsmen at Jaipur under the supervision of S.S. Jacob, who had collaborated with Hendley on a number of other works.

£4,250

ref: 39659

KUMSCH, E. (editor).

Muster Orientalischer Gewebe und Druckstoffe, Mit Genehmigung des Koniglichen Ministeriums des Innern.

Dresden. Verlag von Stengel & Markert. 1893. Folio. pp. (ii) Illustrated with 40 mounted photographic plates illustrating 212 designs. Loose, housed in publisher's porfolio, flaps damaged, marginal tears and creases on title page, short tear in the mount of the first two plates, ownership stamp on margin of plates.

The fabrics are from the collection of the Kunstgewerbe Museum, Dresden.

£950

ref: 33605

LESSING, Julius.

Persisch-Tuerkische Fayencen. Teller.

Berlin. Verlag von Ernst Wasmuth. 1890. Folio. pp. (2), (2). Illustrated with 15 lithograph colour plates. Bound in grey cloth boards, with original printed portfolio wrapper pasted to upper board.

No. 11 in the series Vorbilder-Hefte Aus Dem Kgl. Kunstgewerbe-Museum.

£750

ref: 38017

MOMTAZ, Irene.

A Perspective of Unity.

London. Momtaz Islamic Art. nd. 24.5 x24.5cm pp. 56. 61 pieces illustrated in colour. Hardback. Fine.

£20

ref: 37901

POPE, Arthur Upham.

A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present. Arthur Upham Pope, editor; Phillis Ackerman, assistant editor.

London. Oxford University Press. 1938. 6 vols. Folio. pp. xxviii, 1 - 895, (i); xi, 897 - 1807, (i ... (more)

Pope's monumental history of Persian art with both a scholarly text and an unmatched corpus of ... (more)

£3,000

ref: 40738

PRISSE D'AVENNES, Émile. Blair, Sheila & Jonathan Bloom.

Arab Art. Arabische Kunst. L'Art arabe. The complete plates from L'Art arabe and the Oriental Album.

Cologne. Taschen. 2010. 43.5 x 31.5cm. pp. 392. 232 plates, 169 in colour Hardback in dust jacket. New.

Emile Prisse d'Avennes, Orientalist & Muslim convert, obsessive in his attention to detail, was ... (more)

£65

ref: 39333

PRISSE D'AVENNES.

Oriental Album. Characters, Costumes and Modes of Life, in the Valley of the Nile... with descriptive letter-press, by James Augustus St. John.

London. James Madden. 1848. Folio. Plate volume only. Additional chromolithographed title, portrait and 30 hand-coloured lithographed plates, illustrations in text. Recent tan calf-backed marbled boards, spine elaborately gilt.

First edition. The Oriental Album is one of the earliest publications by Prisse d'Avennes, a ... (more)

£30,000

ref: 22883

RIEFSTAHL, R. Meyer.

The Parish-Watson Collection of Mohammadan Potteries.

New York. E. Weyhe. 1922. Folio. pp. xii, 260. Frontispiece and 94 hors-texte colour & monochrome plates. Publisher's buckram soiled and rubbed, endpapers marked with tape shadow,backstrip torn at base

From the edition limited to 500 copies. Rudolf Meyer Riefstahl (1880 - 1936), a distinguished art ... (more)

£35

ref: 38792