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...
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...
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...
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...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. Paperback. Black wraps with white lettering, color illustrations. 117 leaves. Over 70 pages of BW charts and illustrations. Thesis Document: Master of Science in Architecture Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, class 2005.
New York: Abbevile Press Publishers, 2007. English Edition. Hardcover. Persian blue cloth/boards; gilt lettering. Glossy, color-photographic dj with white decoration and red lettering. 263 pp. with color photographs throughout. A bit heavy at 5 pounds and may require extra postage. A beautiful survey of the art and architecture of one...
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.
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 and Morocco." (dj).
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Cambridge, MA: AKPIA & MIT, 1996. Softcover. Royal blue wraps with color illus. and white lettering. French flaps. 186 pp. with numerous bw illus. Proceedings of the international symposium sponsored by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts...
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...
New York: George Braziller, 1965. Hardcover. Persian Blue cloth over boards; gilt lettering. Color-illus. dj with blue lettering on white spine. 288 pp. 404 illus. with 33 in color. When published, this was the first work to present "all the riches of Persian architecture in a single volume." It follows...
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...
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...
