Chaghatai Abdullah (7 results)

Thin Card. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Author (illustrator). Presumed First. 16 Pages Plus 2 Pages Monochrome Plates. A Soundly Bound Book, Unmarked. Covers Have Some Handling-Wear, Lightly Browned, One Short Tear At Top Of Spine, But Otherwise Undamaged. Not Ex Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 52 p. Complete title: The Badshahi Masjid (Built by Aurangzeb in 1084/1674. HISTORY & ARCHITECTURE with 26 plates of illustration and some figures in the text. (extra shipping costs because of extra format (28 x 36 cm); some wear on the corners).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 36 x 27.5 cm. Folio. 52pp. Blue cloth spine, pastedown-illustration. With 26 plates of illustrations and some in-text figures. Some scuffing and wear to the covers.

Unknown Binding. Condition: Good. Ex-Library. Hardback/Hardcover. Well-read copy with some spine wear but still useable BOOK BENT FORWARDS AT THE TOP. Colouring of pages due to age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Original bdg. HC. Folio. (36 x 28 cm). In English and Urdu. 19 p. text in English, [26] p. plates of plans, photos etc., 70 p. text in Urdu. The Wazir Khan Mosque, Lahore. History and architecture.= Masjid Vazīr Khān, Lāhaur kā tafsīlī aksī mutala'ah. "Before the construction of the Wazir Khan Mosque in Lahore, the largest mosque in the city was the Begam Shahi Majid, which was built in 1613 by emperor Jahangir in memory of his mother Maryam Zamani on the eastern side of Lahore Fort. Another congregational mosque in the heart of the city was badly needed. This was built by Wazir Khan in 1634 during the reign of Shah Jahan. It is situated just inside Delhi Gate and is built on the site of the ancient shrine of Shaikh Ishaq Gazruni (d. 1386). The mosque is a great architectural achievement. Several early European scholars realised its importance as a glowing example of Muslim architecture and the embellishment on its walls attracted particular attention. An effort is made here to describe the finer architectural points of this historical mosque.". (From preface by Chaghatai). 3 copies in OCLC.

Cloth Spine w/Illustrated Brds. Condition: Very Good. 26 Colour and Monochrome Plates/Detailed Diagrams (illustrator). Published in English and Urdu. Bubbled endpapers, else clean and tight. Peeling to paper boards front top corner, slighlty bowed and bubbled, rubbed boards, cloth spine. 19 pages in English. Detailed diagrams. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hardcover.

FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Large square folio (35.5 x 27.5 cm). pp.[vi]+52. Publisher's original pictorial boards backed in blue cloth. 42 illustration on 25 numbered plates and 5 illustrations in the text. With a warm presentation to Dr. John Edgi (sp?) to dedication page, signed by the author and dated 1973. Some minimal light shelfwear to boards, contents clean, generally a very good copy indeed. "The main purpose of this monograph is obvious. It is an honest attempt to present the history and architecture of the Badshahi Masjid built at Lahore in 1084/1674 by the Emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir, who is wrongly maligned for not having any taste for art and architecture, although he built this, the largest and greatest, work of art among the world's mosques that are in use. Unfortunately, the mosque has never received adequate attention either from the historian or from the art expert and thus it is very little known outside Pakistan" (preface).