THREE BOOKS ABOUT ISLAMIC ART, INDIAN ART, MAGHREB ART, PERS...

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THREE BOOKS ABOUT ISLAMIC ART, INDIAN ART, MAGHREB ART, PERSIAN ART
INDISCHE
MINIATUREM, BERLIN, 1937,
WITH AN INTRODUCTION OF ERNST KUHNEL, WITH A PUBLISHER’S NOTE IN 1937
A compilation of 19 high-quality reproductions of the miniatures, along with descriptive texts that explain the significance and background of each piece; with an introduction by Ernst Kühnel, a renowned art historian specialising in Islamic and Indian art; including: The Prince and the Fakir -- Emperor Djahangir at the festival prayer -- Audience with Emperor Djahangir -- Portrait of Radjah Birbal -- Taming of an elephant -- Imperial hunting hawk -- Blackbuck -- Prince Dara Shikoh on a court elephant -- Festive entry of Prince Darah Shikoh -- Portrait of General Sha'isteh Khan -- Mughal princess on the river terrace -- Mughal ladies on the garden terrace -- Evening on the harem terrace -- Portrait of a Mughal lady -- The talking tree -- The miraculous bird Garuda -- The cock's crow -- "Todi Ragini" -- The miraculous flute playing, one half-bounded with leather and marbled papers (ex-libris reading The Library of Gregory Bilotto- Hagia Sophia), the other bound in cardboard with a black cartouche and the title gilt-stamped, some damage to the cardboard 24,5 X 18 cm. MAURISCHE
KUNST (MAGHREB ART) BY ERNST KUHNEL, DIE KUNST DES OSTENS, BY WILLIAM COHN, Band 9,
BERLIN, 1924,
German language,
155 pages, 75 pages of text and 155 plates with illustrations
and 24 text images. DIE KUNST
DES ALTEN PERSIAN VON FRIEDRICH SARRE (THE ART
OF ANCIENT PERSIA), BY
FRIEDRICH SARRE, BERLIN, 1923German language,
with an introduction and index, 75 pages of text, 152 plates and 19 text illustrations, with an ex-libris label of Gregory Bilotto, the book with the stamp in Arabic ‘Hisam Abd Al-Zaheer’

25 x 18,5 cm

24,5 X 18 cm