Islamic bookbindings
Berlin: Scarabaeus, n.d., [1923]. Edition limited to 550 numbered copies (this no. 46); folio, pp. [4], 9-167, [1]; 36 chromolithograph plates, 4 illustrations in the text (3 full-page); original green morocco-backed papstepaper boards, gilt lettered direct on spine; the binding is scuffed and rubbed, but it is sound and the contents clean. Egyptian, Persian and Turkish bindings from the 9th to the 19th century. "Translated from the German manuscript by F. D. O'Byrne." Item #46808
Price: $500.00
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