BOOKS ON ISLAMIC AND FAR EASTERN ART (SET OF 17)

• A J Arberry, M Minovi, E Blochet, The Chester Beatty Library: A Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts and Miniatures, Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co. Ltd, 1959-1962 (3 Volumes)

Volume 1 MSS. 101-150: xii + 87 pages including colour frontispiece + 39 black and white plates; 1959
Volume 2 MSS. 151-220: xiv + 89 pages including colour frontispiece + 43 black and white plates; 1960
Volume 3 MSS. 221-398: xv + 117 pages including colour frontispiece + 43 black and white plates; 1962

Maroon cloth board (each)
14.25 x 10.75 in (36.5 x 27.5 cm) (each)

• Sirarpie der Nersessian, The Chester Beatty Library: A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts- With an Introduction on the History of Armenian Art, Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co. Ltd, 1958-1960 (2 Volumes)

Volume 1 - Text: xliv + 216; 1958
Volume 2 - Plates: vii + colour frontispiece + 66 black and white plates; 1960

Maroon cloth board with gilt text on the spine (each)
14.25 x 10.75 in (36.5 x 27.5 cm) (each)

Armenian illustrated manuscripts form one of the most important groups among the codices of the Christian East both for their artistic quality and the number of surviving examples. Next to the Greek manuscripts, they are in fact the only ones with provide us with an uninterrupted series of examples dating from the late ninth to the early eighteenth centuries.

• V Minorsky, The Chester Beatty Library: A Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts and Miniatures, Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co. Ltd, 1958

xxxv + colour frontispiece + 145 pages + 2 colour plates and 40 black and white plates; 1958; maroon cloth board
14.25 x 10.75 in (36.5 x 27.5 cm) (each)

An important work that contains a detailed breakdown of Turkish manuscripts in the Chester Beatty Library. "Turkish fine books and miniatures, though closely related to those of Persia, contain interesting features of their own. They are, however, not very well known, largely because the European public collections are rather weak in good examples. I have been fortunate in acquiring a varied collection which includes some outstanding works, and I hope this catalogue will be a help to scholars and art-lovers alike" - Foreword.

• Martin Bernard Dickson and Stuart Cary Welch, The Houghton Shahnameh, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press, 1981

In 2 Volumes
Volume 1: 293 pp. with 284 black and white illustrations and 21 colour plates (one of them placed unmounted)
Volume 2: 545 pp. including one colour plate as frontispiece and 269 full page plates in deep sepia collotype
original blue buckram, upper covers and spines with gilt lettering and ornamentation, all edges gilt (each)
18 x 11.75 in (45.8 x 30 cm) (each)

• Alexandre Papadopoulo, Islam and Muslim Art, London: Thames and Hudson, 1980

631 pages including 1118 illustrations, including 174 plates in full colour, map, charts, diagrams, and reconstructions; white cloth boards with mounted colour illustration, gilt spine lettering; white dust jacket, colour illustrated with black lettering; colour illustrated front end pages
12.5 x 9.5 in (32 x 24.5 cm)

"The precious materials, rich details, and wonderful imagination of Muslim art are all reflected in this lavishly beautiful book.... He divides the volume into seven interrelated parts, first setting the scene with a vivid reconstruction of the intellectual and social milieu of the Muslim world. An important place is reserved for miniatures, a major art form of the Muslims. Another large section is devoted to Muslim architecture with its enchanting panoply of mosques and minarets, open courts, stately colonnades, and handsome cupolas. Calligraphy, manuscript illumination, bookbinding, and the minor arts - ceramics, metalwork, woodcarving, glassware, and carpets- are described and exquisitely illustrated."- (Dust jacket).

• Douglas Barrett, Persian Painting of the Fourteenth Century, London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1952

24 pages including 10 tipped-in colour plates, paperback with dust jacket
12.5 x 9.75 in (31.8 x 25.1 cm)

• Pinder-Wilson, Persian Painting of the Fifteenth Century, London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1958

24 pages including 10 tipped-in colour plates, paper back without dust jacket
12 x 9.75 in (31 x 25 cm)

• Mulk Raj Anand, Homage to Amir Khusrau, Bombay: Marg Publications, Volume 28: Number 3, June 1975

52 pages profusely illustrated with black and white and colour plates
10.75 x 8.5 in (27.7 x 21.5 cm)

• Mulk Raj Anand, Persian Painting - Fourteenth Century, Bombay: Marg Publications, Volume 30: Number 1, December 1976

60 pages profusely illustrated with black and white and colour plates
13.5 x 9.5 in (34.5 x 24.2 cm)

• Mulk Raj Anand, Persian Painting - Fifteenth Century, Bombay: Marg Publications, Volume 30: Number 2, March 1977

76 pages profusely illustrated with black and white and colour plates
13.5 x 9.5 in (34.5 x 24.2 cm)

• David Eugene Smith, Firdausi Celebration 935-1935; addresses delivered at the celebration of the thousandth anniversary of the birth of the national poet of Iran held at Columbia University and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the city of New York, New York: McFarlane, Warde, McFarlane, 1936

4 preliminary leaves, vii-x pages, 3 leaves, 3-138 pages, colour frontispiece, illustrations (portrait) colour plates; red cloth board
11.5 x 8 in (29.5 x 20.5 cm)

A bibliography of the principal manuscripts and printed editions of the Sha¯h-na¯mah in certain leading public libraries of the world.

• James Vere Stewart Wilkinson, The Lights of Canopus: Anvar I Suhaili / Described by J. V. S. Wilkinson, London: The Studio Limited, [1929 ?]

x + 53 pages including 36 tipped-in colour plates; beige cloth bound with gilt text at the spine and front board, top edge gilt
10 x 6.25 in (25.5 x 16 cm)

The 36 reproduced miniature paintings are from the original manuscript in the British Museum.

• Sherman E Lee, A History of Far Eastern Art, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1964

527 pages; hardbound with dust jacket
11.5 x 9 in (29.5 x 22.5 cm)

Sherma E Lee was the Director and Curator of Oriental Art at The Cleveland Museum of Art.

• Pradapitya Pal, Islamic Art: The Nasli M Heeramaneck Collection, gift of Joan Palevsky, Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016

232 pages including 174 illustrations, 16 in colour, selected bibliography; stiff pictorial wrappers
10 x 9 in (25.4 x 22.8 cm)

• Benjamin Rowland, Gandhara Sculpture from Pakistan Museums, New York: Asia Society Inc., 1974

64 pages with 65 black and white plates; soft bound
7.75 x 7.75 in (20 x 20 cm)

• John M Rosenfield, Pratapaditya Pal, Milo Cleveland Beach, Adolph S Cavallo, The Arts of India and Nepal: The Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection, Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1966

185 pages with numerous black and white and colour plates, softbound
8.5 x 7.5 in (22 x 19.5 cm)

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston from 21 November 1966 - 8 January 1967; Los Angeles County Museum from 8 February - 2 April 1967; Detroit Institute of Arts from 20 June - 6 August 1967; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond from 18 September - 14 October 1967.

• Mulk Raj Anand, Treasures of Indian Art in the V&A Museum, Bombay: Marg Publications, Volume 29 Number 4, September 1976

70 pages illustrated with numerous colour and black and white plates
11 x 8.25 in (28 x 21.5 cm)

(Set of 17)

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