Denkmäler islamischer Buchkunst.

Florence, Pantheon, and Munich, Kurt Wolff, 1929

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Year of publication

1929

Author

Grohmann, Adolf And Thomas W. Arnold.

Publishers

Florence, Pantheon, and Munich, Kurt Wolff

Keyword

ORIENT,

Description

With 104 plates, 10 in color, each accompanied by a short description on a separate leaf, and 19 text-illus. XII pp., 2 leaves, 142 , (1) pp. Large 4to. Orig. half leather with spine label (corners somewhat scuffed). From the library of the Swiss orientalist Rudolf Tschudi. Florence, Pantheon, and Munich, Kurt Wolff, (1929). First edition. One of 375 numbered copies of the German edition of this well-produced standard work on Islamic book art. Part one by Adolf Grohmann covers the early Islamic period from the 7th to the 12th century; it is based on the famous collection of Archduke Rainer in the Austrian National Library Vienna; part two by Thomas W. Arnold covers the 13th to the 18th century, arranged by regions. ORIENT ;