Istanbul: Vakiflar Genel Mudurlugu Yayinlari. Softcover. Brown, color-photographic wraps with yellow lettering. 448 pp. with 49 color plates plus bw images of all sorts throughout. The Great Mosque and Hospital in the town of Divrigi in Eastern Anatolia (Turkey). Main text in Turkish with some in Arabic, French, and/or English..... More
Istanbul: Cafe City Yayinlari, 2012. Hardcover. Forest green cloth with gold lettering in matching slipcase; 160 pp. with stunning color photos and a few maps. Parallel text in Turkish/English. The story of the restoration of Agios Dimitrios ta Salina, known as the Moonlight Monastery, located off the Aegean coast of..... More
Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2012. Hardcover. Black cloth/boards; gilt lettering on spine. Color-photographic dj.; viii, 286 pp. with color photos throughout. Text in English. "A well-written survey of contemporary architectural projects in the Arab world. The book represents a valuable, sincere, and much-needed effort to address a gap..... More
Wien: Phoibos Verlag, 1997. Hardcover. White and BW-illustrated boards with black lettering. 112 pp. 71 pages of plates. Illustrations, maps. Text in German. Includes bibliographical references. More
Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2001. Paperback. Color-photographic wraps with white lettering. 143 pp. Color and BW illustrations. Plans. Photographs by Pino Musi. Includes bibliographical references. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963. Hardcover. Butterscotch cloth/boards with gilt decoration and lettering. White, illus. dj with grey lettering. 242 pp. with no illus. Inscribed by the translator, Joseph Thomas. Translated from the French by Joseph Thomas. Part of the History of Philosophy series. The Hellenic Age is the..... More
Bruxelles; Paris: Vromant & Co. Imprimeurs-Éditeurs, 1922. Softcover. Tan wraps with bw illustration on front cover, black and red lettering, VI, 50 pp followed by 200 bw plates. Text in French. Choice of documents accompanied by bibliographical indications by Jean Capart, Curator of the royal museums of the fiftieth anniversary..... More
Stuttgart / Zurich: Karl Kramer Verlag, 2013. Hardcover. Red & illus. boards, 291 pp., BW and color illus. Presents architectural planning and building done by the Salo Hershman firm of Israel. Highly illustrated. More
London: Faber and Faber Unlimited, 1976. Hardcover. Light blue cloth, red title block with gilt letters on spine, burnished gold & color illus. dust jacket, 167 pp. plus 560 BW plates, 11 color plates. "The first part of this book is devoted to Egypt and the second to Tunisia, Algeria..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964. Hardcover. Light orange cloth, dark green title block with gilt letters on spine, brown & color illus. dust jacket; 88 text pp.; color frontis plus plates of 527 BW plates; with sundry maps and BW illus. A classic which includes social, historical, and cultural..... More
New York: Harry Abrams, 1977. Hardcover. Grey cloth over boards; gilt lettering. Silver decorative dj with black lettering. 424 pp. with 513 bw illus., including 192 diagrams. An expansive book about the expanse of Islamic architecture in the West, Middle East and India. Beautiful bw photographs, many in detail, and..... More
New York: George Braziller, 1963. Softcover. Black illustrated wraps with magenta lettering; 128 pp. with 137 bw photographs plus additional images;. Showing the photographs and plans of North Africa, Spain, Egypt, and Turkey; includes lengthy introductory essays on each area. More
Durham: The Centre for Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, University of Durham, 1983. Softcover. White stapled wraps with green lettering and decoration. 100 pp. with bw illus. throughout. Catalogue from the exhibition held in London, January - February 1984. Essays/sections include: The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem and the..... More
London: Macmillan & Co., 1894. Hardcover. Red clay cloth/boards. Added yellow cloth spine with original title block overlaid. viii + 307 pp. with 75 bw illus. An amazing architectural, decorative, historical description of Sancta Sophia, including her situation in Byzantium and Constantinople and as the first church there. Certainly, anyone..... More
New York, New York: Thames and Hudson, 1988. Hardcover. Gray cloth, gilt letters on spine, gilt decoration on front cover, gray & illus. dust jacket, 288 pp., 305 BW illus., 56 plans and drawings. The author "presents here the first authoritative account of the genesis and development of the design..... More
Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1954. 1287/2000. Softcover. Blue, stiff paper wraps with red lettering. 541 pp. with 108 bw plates and 286 bw figures. Text in French. Number 1287 of the 2000 volumes (out of 3000 total printed) that were designated for the Algerian government. Written in 9 chapters..... More
Roma: L'Erma Di Bretschneider, 2002. Hardcover. Maroon cloth boards with gilt spine lettering. Glossy color-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering. 519 pp. BW and some color illustrations. Text in Italian. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. More
London: Academy Editions, 1993. Hardcover. Blue boards with gilt stamped spine lettering. 132 pp. 245 illustrations, 99 in full color. Basil Al-Bayati's individual and distinctive architectural style is admired throughout the Middle East and Europe for its fusion of function and symbolism. His skilful weaving together of eastern and western..... More
Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 1997. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering. Color-illustrated dust jacket with black lettering. 211 pp. BW and color illustrations. "Tilework is the most spectacular architectural manifestation of Islamic Iran. In Early Persian Tilework, Douglas Pickett examines the growth to maturity of Persian tilework and..... More
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1968. First. Hardbound. Light blue cloth boards with color pictorial DJ, 312pp, 138 color and BW. From the jacket--The architecture of Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey varies widely due to the differing climate, available builing materials, and artistic tradition of each region. Yet the common architectural..... More
Istanbul: Kuveyt Turk, 2014. Slipcased. Lush, evergreen cloth/boards. Gilt lettering; bw image laid onto front cover. Decorative end papers. Bw photographic dj with yellow lettering. Matching board slipcase. 401 + [15] pp. with color and bw images throughout, including bw architectural drawings. With matching green satin place-holder ribbon. Letter from..... More
Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 2009. Softcover. Gold and duotone illus. wraps, 114 pp., color & duotone illus., one fold-out at back. Tells the story of this structural model of buildings in the city of Jerusalem in the Second Temple Period. "Providing important insights into ancient Jerusalem on the eye of..... More
New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Hardcover. Tan stamped cloth, cream & illus. dust jacket, 316 pp., many BW and duotone illus. and figures. "Traces the methods of Egyptian stone construction from its beginnings at Saqqara, through the pyramids of the Old and Middle Kingdoms, to the great..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968. Hardcover. Tan cloth, black and illus. dust jacket, 548 pp., many BW figures and illus. "The definitive study of architecture in Ancient Egypt during the period of the Empire, or the New Kingdom, when her suzerainty spread over the Levant, and Nubia and the..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 1929. Hardbound. Brown publisher's cloth ruled edges, title on spine only. xx, 274 pp., 1 pp Errata 288 bw illustrations. Completed several years after Butler's death, this book represents and edification of a manuscript he had been working on (and utilizing in his graduate level classes..... More
