Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. Hardbound. Color wraps. 288 pp. Numerous color and bw plates. Exhibition catalogue. More
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. Hardbound. Color wraps. 288 pp. Numerous color and bw plates. Exhibition catalogue. 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. 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
London: John Murray, 1814. Hardbound. Red quarter-leather binding with gild lettering and decoration on spine; gilt top edge; unpaginated with approx. 140 pp. and 60 color plates. Beautiful color engravings of dress during the Ottman Empire, with full descriptions of each plate and commentary on the lifestyle of a person..... More
Teheran, Iran: Carpet-Museum, Teheran, 1977. Hardcover. glossy black boards w/ color illustration & white printing. 115 pgs w/ color plates. Text in Farsi and English; Bright, detailed color plates. Illustrates and details 40 examples from the Museum; text also in English. More
Fishguard, Wales: The Crosby Press, 1975. Hardcover. Navy cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, white & illus. dust jacket, 48 pp, of text plus pages of 55 color plates; sundry BW illus., color map. First published in 1970 as "Turkmenische Teppiche" for an exhibition in Hamburg. The narrative..... More
Cairo: Le Scribe Egyptien S.A.E., 1949. Hardbound. Original publishers light blue cloth with gilt embossed lettering and design; 134 pp. with 97 bw plates; 33 bw figures within text;. Written by the former curator of Islamic art at the Teheran Museum; text in English but with some examples of pottery..... More
Providence: Rhode Island School of Design, 1991. Softcover. Color-illustrated card wraps with pink spine lettering. 127 pp. with 49 color plates and accompanying bw maps and additional bw figured. Catalogue from the exhibition of November 1991 - February 1992 and at the Textile Museum in DC, March - May 1992..... More
London: British Museum Press, 1995. Hardcover. Black cloth/boards; gilt lettering. Glossy, color-illus. dj with white lettering on black spine. 192 pp. with 78 color and 56 bw illus. "From the fine linens of medieval Egypt to the sumptuous silks and velvets of the Ottoman empire, textiles produced in the heartlands..... More
Leeds, England: Temple Newsam House, 1964. Softcover. Blue/black illustrated, stapled wraps with no lettering. 36 pp. with 1 color and 10 bw plates, 2 bw line drawings (knots), and a bw map. Pocket inside back cover contains a 14-page (single-sided) technical supplement. Catalogue from the exhibition at Temple Newsam House..... More
London: Raymond Benardout Ltd, 1983. Hardcover. Black cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, 100 pp., color & BW illus. Presents 72 examples of antique rugs, including Classical carpets, Chinese rugs, Persian rugs, Baluch rugs, Caucasian rugs, Turkish rugs, and Turkoman weavings. With an introduction by Raymond Benardout and..... More
New York: The Vendome Press, 1996. Hardcover. Dark blue cloth on boards with gilt lettering, black dj with color illustration; 379 pp.; almost 400 illustrations, mostly in color. From the dust jacket: The seven authors of this lavishly illustrated book, each of them a recognized expert, lead us step by..... More
New York: Doris Leslie Blau, 2008. Softcover. Color-pictorialcard wraps with Central Asian carpet motif. Silver lettering on spine. [120] with 58 color plates. Oversize (12x19 inches; 4 pounds / 1.8 kilos). Catalogue of stunning, antique silk rugs from Samarkand, the beautiful, historic city on the Silk Road. With a one-page..... More
Berlin: G. Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1904. Zweite, durchgesehene und vermehrte Auflage = 2nd revised and expanded edition. Hardcover. Amber and black decorated paper boards with black leather-like spine & corners; gilt letters on spine; 60 pp., 28 BW illus., one large BW plate. Text is in German. Considers "Old Persian knotwork,"..... More
London: Bell & Hyman Limited, 1984. 4th Revised. Hardbound. Red cloth w/ black ill. dj; 187 pp text with bw plates. More
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1938. Original Edition, not a reprint. Hardcover. Grey paper/boards; darkest navy blue lettering. White paper label on spine. 89, [3] pp. followed by 100 bw figures. Bw map. Includes an introduction and sections on Mesopotamia, Egypt, The Yemen, and Persia; with a chronological table, bibliography..... More
Munchen: Pazyryk Gesellschaft, 1988. 21/700. Hardcover. Crimson cloth/boards; gilt lettering and decoration. 164 pp. with occasional bw illustrations and line drawings and 36 color plates. No dj. Inscribed by Buddeberg to George O'Bannon. Pazyryk is the German rug society, and these are the papers presented at their 1988 meeting (Volume..... 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
Seattle, Washington: Court Street Press, 1987. Hardcover. Coal black cloth/boards; white lettering. Color-illus. dj with white lettering on black spine; Mylar cover. Map end papers. 68 pp. full of color plates. Catalog of an exhibition first seen at the Henry Art Gallery during the spring of 1987. Each work annotated..... 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
Omaha, Nebraska: Joslyn Art Museum, 1974. Softcover. Color wraps. 75 pp. Numerous BW and color illus., one fold-out map. Issued in conjunction with a 1974-1975 exhibition of oriental rugs. With an essay by Ruth H. Cloudman. The annotated nd illustrated catalogue addresses dozens of pieces. Includes a section on technical..... More
Munchen: Profile, 1987. Softcover. Red card illustrated wraps. 160 pages, 3 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations. Text in German. To the round sculpture of the Gudea of Lagaé. An investigation into selected figurative art from the time that Gudea ruled Lagash in southern Mesopotamia (2144-2124 B.C.). Includes illustrations of..... More
Washington, DC: The Textile Museum, 1981. Hardbound. Brick-colored cloth with gold lettering; dj with textile illustration and black spine with brick lettering; 223 pp.; 67 bw and color plates with additional bw figures throughout. With thorough descriptions of the collection of flatweaves from Persia (Iran), Caucasus and Turkey; includes several..... More
Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1972. Softbound. Black wraps with color illustration, white lettering; French flaps. Approx 55 pp, numerous color and BW plates. Excellent catalog detailing oriental rugs from the private collection of John Schorscher. Includes loose leaf addendums of objects acquired while the catalog was in press. More
Tehran, Iran: Tehran Rug Society, 1976. Softcover. Color illus. glued wraps; 152 pp.; Profusely illustrated in bw. Accompanied an exhibition at the Iran America Society in Tehran; Foreword by Parviz Tanavoli; Includes a glossary of Persian terms. More