May 12, 2011 - Sale 2247

Sale 2247 - Lot 99

Price Realized: $ 4,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(ISLAMIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE.) Raymond, Alexandre M. L'Art Islamique En Orient. Part II. Chromolithographed title, dedication leaf, and 52 plates numbered 1-60 (several double-page images). Folio, publisher's cloth-backed illustrated boards, worn; joints cracked; plates clean. (Prague: M. Schulz, 1924)

Additional Details

The beautiful, detailed chromolithographs show Islamic architecture and details of doors, windows, wood carvings, and ornaments drawn from the mosques at Konia, Brousse, Sivas, Constantinople,Yenicheir, and Iznik, as well as calligraphy. Part I is quite scarce and was published by Librairie Soustiel, Paris. Atabey 1015.