THREE ART BOOKS ; PERSIAN ART, ISLAMIC ART, INDIAN ART DIE K...

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THREE ART BOOKS ; PERSIAN ART, ISLAMIC ART, INDIAN ART
DIE KUNST
DES ISLAM, BY HEINRICH GLÜCK AND ERNST DIEZ, 1925, PRINTED BY PROPYLÄEN-VERLAG, G.M.B.H
First edition, text in German, 617 pages, both with black page edges, both half-bound, one with marbled paper, the other with green cardboard, both spines stamped with book title and authors’ names, some pages marked, one with ex-libris “The Library of Gregory Bilotto- Hagia Sophia”

The book with the stamp in Arabic, Hisam Abd al-Zaheer
26,7 x 19 cm. INDISCHE
MINIATUREN (INDIAN MINIATURES) FROM THE COLLECTION OF BERLIN MUSEUMS, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ERNST KÜHNEL,
PRINTING OF THE TEXT AND THE COLOUR REPRODUCTIONS: BRÜDER HARTMANN, BERLIN
German language printed book with well-known 19 Indian miniature pictures and their histories:
The Prince and the Fakir, 2
Emperor Jahangir at the festival prayer, 3
Audience with Emperor Jahangir, 4 Portrait of Rajah Birbal,5 Taming of an elephant, 6 Imperial hunting hawk, 7 Blackbuck, 8 Prince Dara Shikoh on a court elephant, 9 Festive entry of Prince Dara Shikoh, 10 Portrait of General Sha' isteh Khan, 11 Mughal princess on the river terrace, 13 Mughal ladies on the garden terrace,
Evening on the harem terrace, 14 Portrait of a Mughal lady, 15 The talking tree, 16 The miraculous bird Garuda, 17 The cock crow, 18, »Todi Ragini«, 19 The miraculous flute playing
With an ex-libris label “The Library of Gregory Bilotto”
25,5 x 18,5 cm. DIE KUNST
DES ALTEN PERSIAN VON FRIEDRICH SARRE (THE ART
OF ANCIENT PERSIA), BY
FRIEDRICH SARRE, BERLIN, 1923
German 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’ 25,5 x 18,5 cm