Islamic Bindings Bookmaking Catalogue (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 30.5 by 23cm., 235pp., 91 black and white and 14 colour illustrations. The Oriental Institute's collection of Islamic bookbindings- mostly from the 14th and 15th centuries- was acquired in 1929 from the German Orientalist and Arabic scholar, Dr. Bernhard Mortiz. This study examines the collection in detail, and includes comparative material once owned by Moritz now in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, and the Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin. RARE HARDBACK. Dj corners rubbed.…

First edition, 4to, 235pp., 100 illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. The Oriental Institute's collection of Islamic bookbindings was acquired in 1929 from the German Orientalist and Arabic scholar Dr. Bernard Moritz. This study examines the Moritz collection in detail, and includes comparative material also once owned by Moritz and now in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, and the Islamic Museums of East and West Berlin.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing. 4to. 235 pp. Brown cloth. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Jacket mildly rubbed and worn.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 91 black and white and 14 colour illustrations. Brown cloth with gilt spine titling, upper board stamped in gilt, pictorial dust-jacket. A fine copy inscribed to Christopher Clarkson upon the title-page by each of the three contributors. The Oriental Institute's collection of Islamic bookbindings- mostly from the 14th and 15th centuries- was acquired in 1929 from the German Orientalist and Arabic scholar, Dr. Bernhard Mortiz. This study examines the collection in detail, and includes comparative material once owned by Moritz now in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, and the Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin. Inscribed by Author(s).…