Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. Softcover. Color wraps. 288 pp. Numerous color and bw plates. Exhibition catalogue. Contents as follows: Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Lenders to the exhinition -- The Mamluk Empire : history and administration. Introduction ; Catalogue -- Illuminated manuscripts: Introduction ; Catalogue -- Metalwork. Introduction ;..... More
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. Hardbound. Color wraps. 288 pp. Numerous color and bw plates. Exhibition catalogue. Contents as follows: Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Lenders to the exhinition -- The Mamluk Empire : history and administration. Introduction ; Catalogue -- Illuminated manuscripts: Introduction ; Catalogue -- Metalwork. Introduction ;..... More
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. Softcover. Color pictorial wraps. 286 pp. Numerous color and BW plates. Catalogue of an exhibition circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, shown at 7 locations. Contents as follows: Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Lenders to the exhinition -- The Mamluk Empire : history..... More
New York: Rizzoli, 1990. Softcover. tan pictorial wrappers w/ gilt printing. 313 pgs w/ color illlustrations. Wonderfully illustrated. Details and illustrations 105 pieces from the exhibition of The Al-Sabah Collection. Includes a make-shift plastic cover. More
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985. Softcover. Dark glued wraps with printing and design. 273 pp., over 100 bw plates and images. Contents as follows: Foreword -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Techniques and materials -- Glossary of technical terms -- Catalogue. Formative period : seventh through tenth centuries..... More
New York/Corning/Athens/New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art/Corning Museum of Glass/Benaki Museum/Yale University Press, 2001. Paperback. Light grey wraps with color-photo illustration and blue and white lettering; x, 330 pp.; richly illustrated. "Islamic glassmakers were not only brilliant technicians and innovators in their own right, but they also preserved many of..... More
Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press, 1999. Hardcover. Illustrated dustjacket, red boards with gilt lettering on spine. x, 1-228pp. chiefly color with some b+w illustrations. France perfected the art of the dessinateur in the early 19th century, relating it to the newer crafts of lithography, colored printing from metal..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973. Hardbound. Black cloth with white illus. dj; 233 pp. followed by a map and 131 bw illustrations. With detailed explanations and descriptions; includes 8 chapters and an appendix. More
Cairo: MInistry of Culture U.A.R., 1969. Softcover. Maroon and white wraps with gold, white, turquoise an maroon lettering and gold and turquoise motif; 336 pp. followed by catalogue of 55 bw items. Includes items of gold, rock crystal, ivory, metal, ceramics, glass, wood, textiles and painting, all described and discussed..... More
New York: [The Jewish Museum], 1944. Paperback. Tan wraps with brown lettering and illustration; 32 unnumbered pages; richly illustrated. More
London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976. Softcover. Brown wraps with gold Islamic motif on front cover; 396 pp. with 641 items described and numerous color and bw illustrations. Includes a glossary. More
London: Published for Owen Jones, 1842. Leather bound. 3/4 red leather with 6 raised bands, elaborate gilt tooling in spine compartments; marbled paper-covered boards, all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Volume 1 (1842): Marbled end-paper, plain endpaper, half-title quote; Chromolithographed Title-page in French with a date of 1841; printed title-page in..... More
London: Ernest Benn Limited, [1928]. Copy of George Hewitt Myers. Hardcover. Blue cloth/boards; gilt lettering on spine. 20 pp. text followed by 100 color plates, each with tissue guard. Works from Persia, Egypt, Armenia, Asia Minor, Moorish Spain, Anatolia, etc. Plates accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress in French..... More
Paris: Editions Auguste Picard, 1927. Original Second Edition, Revised and Augmented (Not a reprint/e-book/POD). Softcover. Tan wraps with red border and black/red lettering. 460 pp. with bw figures numbered 212-462. Volume 2 ONLY. Text in French. Second edition, revised and augmented. All sorts of decorative metalwork, ceramics, textiles, glass, and..... More
New York: Asia House Gallery, 1973. Softcover. Black illus. covers with bright blue lettering and decorative end papers; 152 pp. with numerous bw and color illustrations. Includes a map, information about coinage under the Safavis, bios of the artists and 7 chapters. More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The M.I.T. Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Turquoise cloth with cream, color illustrated dustjacket. xxiv, 404, (1) pp. with 8 color and more than 400 bw illustrations; bw map at back. "Comprehensively covers the whole range of traditional crafts, including those of agriculture and food processing. And it..... More
San Francisco: M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, 1937. Hardbound. Green paper covered boards with black paper cloth spine. 70 pp., followed by about 90 bw plates. Extensive essay, followed by annotated entries for 267 items in the exhibition. A very early examination of Islamic Art in the United States..... More
Athens, Greece: Benaki Museum, 1979. Softcover. Blue wraps. 54 pp. 21 bw plates. Text in Greek and English. More
[London]: World of Islam Festival Publishing Company, 1976. Hardcover. Linen boards with gilt lettering; ivory-colored DJ with photo-illustration and brown lettering; xvi, 204 pp.; richly illustrated. "Masterpieces of Islamic architecture, ornamentation, mosaics, and decorative arts illustrate a study of the spiritual significance of art in the Islamic religion and the..... More
London: Philip Wilson Publishers Limited, 1987. Hardcover. Royal blue stamped buckram, black & color illus. dust jacket, illus. flyleaves, 551 pp., 400+ BW and 200+ color illus. Text is in English, Arabic, and Hebrew. Catalogues 102 finger rings and 104 inscribed gems found in the collection of Benjamin Zucker. "To..... More
London: Philip Wilson Publishers Limited, 1987. Hardcover. Royal blue stamped buckram, color glossy dustjacket, illus. flyleaves, 551 pp., 400+ BW and 200+ color illus. Text is in English, Arabic, and Hebrew. Catalogues 102 finger rings and 104 inscribed gems found in the collection of Benjamin Zucker. "To put the objects..... More
Dharan, Saudi Arabia: IPA, (1975-1980). Hardcover. Oversized emerald green wraps with gilt lettering on front, rear, and spine. color illustrated end pages, (9) pp of text followed by 88 leaves of color and bw plates, issued in black and color illustrated slip case with yellow lettering on spine. "Said Salah's..... More
Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1989. Hardcover. Navy DJ with white lettering and silver illustration; 139 pp.; richly illustrated. Created on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem at the Weisbord Exhibition Pavilion in November 1989. More
Chicago: Arts Club of Chicago, 1991. Softcover. Tan stapled illus. wraps; 15 pp.; 10 color plates. Accompanied a 1991 exhibition at the Arts Club of Chicago; Introduction and carpet descriptions by Walter B. Denny. More
National Committee to Honor the Fourteenth Centennial of Islam, Inc., 1982. Softcover. Tan illus. wraps; 56 pp.; Profusely illustrated with bw and color photos and figures. Contains sections on astronomy, cosmology, architecture, medicine, metalwork, manuscripts, glass, jade, woodwork, and many other arts and sciences; Includes glossary of terms. More
