BIHZAD Master of Persian Painting. Foreword by Annemarie Schimmel. I.B. Tauris Publishers 1996.
1st Ed. 4to. 272pp. 134 ills. including many in colour. Very good in d/w.
£100.00 [ref: 291220]
MUHAMMAD JUKI’S SHAHNAMAH OF FIRDAUSI. Foreword by Gordon Johnson. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland/Philip Wilson Publishers 2010.
1st Ed. 4to. x + 214pp. Profusely illus. throughout in colour. Very good in d/w.
£100.00 [ref: 288902]
2nd Ed. Folio. 192pp. 150 colour plates, many other ills. Ownership inscription, hinges cracking, in lightly rubbed and lightly browned d/w. very sl. chipped to corners.
£50.00 [ref: 291039]
1st Ed. 4to. 15pp. 152 ills. including 56 in colour. Very good in sl. rubbed and marked d/w.
Signed ‘Shingu ‘74’ to half title in orange.
Susumu Shingu, one of Japan’s most important sculptors combining form with air, water, sound and movement
£50.00 [ref: 243184]
THE AGE OF SINAN Architectural Cultural in the Ottoman Empire. Princeton Univ. Press Princeton and Oxford 2005.
1st Ed. 4to. 592pp. 546 ills. including many colour. Very good in sl. marked d/w.
The monumental, definitive study of Mimar Koca Sinan (c. 1489-1588), ‘the Great Architect Sinan’, who was appointed chief royal architect to the Ottoman court by Sultan Suleyman I in 1539.
£250.00 [ref: 287417]
1st Ed. Sm. Slim 4to. Title page + 126pp. 109 ills. mainly from photos., with many in colour. Russian/English/French/Portuguese (Brazil) text. Good in d/w.
£25.00 [ref: 292800]
ELEGANT DEBTS. The Social Art of Wen Zhengming, 1470-1559. Reaktion Books 2004.
1st Ed. Sm. 4to. 223pp. + [i]. 98 ills., 63 in colour. Ownership inscription, good in d/w.
£25.00 [ref: 290534]
1st Ed. Tall 4to. xxvi + [ii] + 286pp. + [ii] adverts. 673 b/w. ills. Dec. e.ps., original gilt lettered black cloth, sm. nick to fore edge of upper board, sl. wear to corners and head and tail of spine.
£75.00 [ref: 292027]
1st English Ed. 4to. 400pp. Profusely illus. throughout, mainly in colour from photos., maps. Ownership inscription, head of spine sl. bumped, good in d/w.
£75.00 [ref: 290991]
1st Ed. 4to. [xvi] + 165pp. + [i]. Colour frontis., 3 colour plates, 205 b/w. ills. from photos. at rear, maps. 2.5 cm surface closed split to upper leading corner of upper board, otherwise good in d/w.
£35.00 [ref: 291966]