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Condition: Good. Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1450grams, ISBN:0197275001.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 36.5 by 26.5cm., 272 pages; fully illustrated in colour, halftone illustrations of colophons. This volume of The Nasser D.Khalili Collection of Islamic Art deals mainly with Ottoman, Iranian and Indian Qur ans of the 17th and 18th centuries. It also includes a range of material from areas outside the Islamic empires, such as China and the Swahili coastlands of East Africa, and there are sections on later Qur ans from Morocco and from the Sahel regions to the south. Book/dj as new, slipcase stained.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 36 x 26.5 cm. Folio. 260pp. Bibliography. 76 full page illustrations with full page descriptions as well as many other small illustrations. Black cloth in dust jacket and slipcase. Comprises works dating from the 16th to mid 19th centuries.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 36.5 by 26.5cm., 240pp. fully illustrated in colour and line drawings, section on documentary inscriptions. This is a lavishly illustrated presentation of the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art's collection of arms and armor. The items range in date from the seventh to the nineteenth centuries A.D. In avoiding the strictly typological classification of most previous catalogues of the subject, the aim is to give a full sense of the panoply of warfare: the stirrup, the drum, and the talismanic shirt were as important to the Muslim warrior as the sword and the mail shirt. David Alexander, the leading authority on Islamic arms and armor, has provided a detailed scholarly guide to this outstanding collection. With slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 36 by 26cm., 260 pages, fully illustrated in colour. This volume from The Nasser D.Khalili Collection of Islamic Art is devoted to painting in India under the Mughals. The material presented here ranges in date from the 16th to the 19th centuries and comprises 76 illustrated manuscripts, album pages and detached folios, many of which were commissioned by the Mughal emperors. With slipcase (slight wear, one corner bumped).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 292 pages : colour illustrations ; 36 cm. Issued in a slip case. Contents: Accounts: catalogue numbers 1-24 Letters: catalogue numbers 25-96 Legal Documents: catalogue numbers 97-108 Black and white plates: catalogue numbers 109-258 Notes: English and Arabic. Summary:This volume of the Khalili Collection catalogues approximately 250 Arabic documents written on papyrus. Each accompanied by a plate, the entries are catalogued according to the type of document, firstly accounts, secondly legal documents, and thirdly, letters. Most of the documents date from the eighth or ninth centuries A.D. A large number of the papyri came from Fustat, the old Arab capital of Egypt. Nearly all published Arabic papyri came from southern Egypt. The Khalili collection contains the first Arabic document that has been discovered to have been written in northern Iraq. The documents are an important primary source for socio-economic history, palaeography, and diplomatics. The text is supported by notes, up-to-date bibliography, and index.

Hardcover. Condition: New. (Cover a Little Damaged ) Usually Dispatched within 1-2 Business Days , Buy with confidence , excellent customer service.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Presented in sturdy dark blue fabric coloured cloth slip-case, very slight fading. The book and dust-jacket are in mint condition, unmarked and unused. May incur additional postage charges overseas.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Presented in sturdy dark blue fabric coloured cloth slip-case, very slight fading. The book and dust-jacket are in mint condition, unmarked and unused. May incur additional postage charges overseas.

Hardbound. Condition: As New in similar slipcase. Dark blue cloth with glossy color illustrated dustjacket, the whole contained in a sturdy cloth slipcase. 271 pp., 274 full-color sumptuous plates, followed by a representation of artists signatures provided in small bw photographs. An awesome and vital reference to Islamic Lacquer. A delight to hold and peruse, this book is sure to bring glee and contentedness to those who hold it! Best to own this with Part 1, sold by itself. Between the two volumes, 490 items are illustrated in color and annotated.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 255 pages : 30 cm. Bactrian texts in transliteration; translation and notes in English.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 36 by 26.5cm., 191 pp.; fully illustrated in colour, several line drawings, tables and diagrams. The catalogue contains 98 items, which are described and illustrated in colour. Included among these are a significant number of complete manuscripts, some with their original bindings; two folios from the famous 9th-century Qur an written in gold on blue parchment; and two quires from a 10th‑century Qur an, the only copy known to have been produced in Sicily. With slipcase.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus Near Fine. Book measures 36.5x26.5.cm. 348pp, illustrated throughout. Bound in original publishers blue cloth, with gilt lettering. Binding in near fine condition. Dust jacket in near fine condition. Internally, pages clean, unread. House in publishers slipcase. Case rubbed, some abrasion wear, marking. A near fine copy, in a good case. Size: Large Quarto.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 304 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 37 cm. Issued in a slip case. 'The Nasser D. Khalili Collection contains a remarkable group of more than 600 finger rings from the Islamic world and beyond. These rings provide a rare opportunity to survey the history of this form in the Middle East and southern Asia over the last two millennia, for the oldest examples are two Hellenistic glass rings from the second or first century B.C., while the most recent dated specimen is a signet made in India in 1920. This wealth of evidence has allowed the author to present a typology of Islamic rings within a broad chronological framework, and the color illustrations standard to the series have been supplemented by several drawings of each ring.'.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. owner's plate. 248 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 37 cm. Issued in case Language Notes: Text in English, examples of calligraphy in Arabic. Contents: Albums of Mufradat Exercises Karalama and Siyah Mashq Four Ijazat. Calligraphers' Licences The Hilyah. The Verbal Image of the Prophet Albums of Muraqqa'at The Qit'ah Kalips, Levhas and the Art of Composition Ghubar. Writing in Miniature Decoupage The Golden Leaf Appendix I. The Nayrizi Tradition. Naskh in Safavid and Qajar Iran / Edited by Julian Raby Appendix II. A Compendium of Arabic Scripts.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 36.5 by 26.5cm., 126pp. plus full colour facsimile of the jami al-tawarikh. The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art includes a fragmentary copy in Arabic of the Jami al-Tawarikh or Universal History, one of the greatest illustrated medieval manuscripts to have survived from either East or West. Written by the historian and vizier to the Ilkhanid court, Rashid al-Din, and copied in Tabriz between 1310 and 1315 by the author's own calligraphers and illustrators, the manuscript's importance as the first world history was quickly recognized. Sheila Blair reconstructs the often complex history of its ownership, explains its seminal role in the evolution of the illustrated Persian book, and challenges the belief of previous scholars that the Nour fragment and that in the Library of the University of Edinburgh are parts of different manuscripts. Her study of the manuscript's text and miniatures - accompanied by numerous colour details and duotone illustrations of comparative material - provides fascinating insights into the state of pre-Mongol painting and the working practices of a Persian atelier over six hundred years ago. With slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 2 volume set in blue cloth slip-case. 439 pages fully illustrated in colour, numerous line drawings section on documentary inscriptions with translations hardback with dust jacket (slipcased) 36 x 26 cm. 'This two-part volume contains a large and important group of objects and manuscripts that may be broadly categorised as scientific instruments, tools or magical implements. Many objects of this kind have never before been systematically catalogued, and this volume brings together much information previously scattered to present a corpus of material for future comparative study. The astronomical instruments are those primarily connected with the fundamental concerns of Islamic astronomy determining the times of prayer and the direction of Mecca and the teaching and practice of cosmology and astrology. The Collection includes important individual pieces, among them a fine celestial globe made in 1285 6 and a unique Judeo-Arabic astrolabe of c. 1300. Another 218 entries include medical manuscripts, magic bowls, amulets and other magical or geomantic devices that reflect different aspects of medieval Islamic medical care, while a group of mortars, a selection from the large collection of locks, and miscellaneous tools such as scissors, scales and weights, complete this survey of objects which embody the varied preoccupations of Islamic culture. The information presented includes a ground-breaking study of leather workers in medieval Iran.'.

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Condition Notes: Slip case also in Near Fine condition.; ### IMPORTANT: Weighing 3.2kg. overseas shipping will be with ParcelForce, additional postage will be requested. Within the UK I will request £15.00 to send it along, also by ParcelForce. ### First edition (first printing). Hardback in Slip Case. Dust wrapper over blue boards with gilt titles to the spine & upper board; Measures 14¾" x 10½" (3.2 kg); pp 240; Index; Bibliography; In the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art series; Number 21 in the series. Includes: Colour photographs, within the text with most full page; Black & white drawings; Colour frontispiece; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #198663 || Hardback in Slip Case in Dust Wrapper.

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Condition Notes: Slip case has light rippling to the cloth at one corner.; ### IMPORTANT: Weighing 3.3kg. overseas shipping will be with ParcelForce, additional postage will be requested. Within the UK I will request £15.00 to send it along, also by ParcelForce. ### Hardback in Slip Case. Dust wrapper over blue boards with gilt titles to the spine & upper board; Measures 14¾" x 10½" (3.3 kg); pp 248; Index; Bibliography; In the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art series; Number 5 in the series. Includes: Colour photographs, within the text with most full page; Black & white drawings; Colour frontispiece; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #198662 || Hardback in Slip Case in Dust Wrapper.

Volume IX in the monumental Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art. Large hardback in the unclipped dust-jacket housed in the slipcase (as issued). 348 pages. Richly illustrated with full colour photographs. With an extensive bibliography on the subject and an in-depth index. A Fine copy. On the work of early Muslim potters including masterpieces of Seljuq lustrewares of the 12th and 13th centuries and from the Timurid period. Khalili is the founder of the Khalili Collections, said to include the finest and most comprehensive collection of Islamic art in private hands. A Fine copy, as new. Book.

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Condition Notes: Slip Case also in Near Fine condition.; ### IMPORTANT: Weighing 5.4kg. overseas shipping will be with ParcelForce, additional postage will be requested. Within the UK I will request £15.00 to send it along, also by ParcelForce. ### First edition (first printing). Hardback in Slip Case. Dust wrapper over blue boards with gilt titles to the spine & upper board; Measures 14¾" x 10½" (5.4 kg); pp 278/292-439; Index; In the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art series; Number 12 in the series. Includes: Colour photographs, within the text with most full page; Tables; Colour frontispiece; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #198664 || Hardback in Slip Case in Dust Wrapper.