Ralph pinder wilson (26 Ergebnisse)

Original Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Ink check mark on frontfly. Dust jacket has tears and chips along edges.

First Edition. 140 pages. SC Versand aus Deutschland / We dispatch from Germany via Air Mail. Einband bestoßen, daher Mängelexemplar gestempelt, sonst sehr guter Zustand. Imperfect copy due to slightly bumped cover, apart from this in very good condition. Stamped. Sprache: Englisch.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. DJ is frayed. 24 pages, mounted colour illustrations : 31 cm.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Islamic Art, Decorative Arts) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 259 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. Contents: A mirror on the soul: Persian architectural glass / Patricia Baker The towers of Ghur. A Ghurid 'Maginot Line'? / Warwick Ball The pillar and the pictures: an interpretation of the 'Diwan-i Khass' at Fathpur Sikri / Barbara Brend An anthropomorphic glass rhyton / Stefano Carboni Taking a stand / John Carswell Beasts that roared: the Pisa griffin and the New York lion / Anna Contadini, Richard Camber, Peter Northover The use of grey in ceramics of the world of Islam / Yolande Crowe Fragments of drawing and paintings from Fustat / Edmond de Unger Achaemenid Indian gold / David Fleming Between Ghazna and Dehli: Lahore and its lost 'manara' / Finbarr B. Flood A painted wooden lid in the al-Sabah Collection in Kuwait / Ernst J. Grube The Ghurid tomb at Herat / Robert Hillenbrand The sculptures of the pre-Islamic 'Haram' at Makka / Geoffrey King The Samarra Bowl with the half-palmette animals reconsidered / Jens Kröger The Armenians of Kabul and Afghanistan / Jonathan Lee The Rabatak inscription and the nameless Kushan king / David W. MacDowall "Pem Nem": a 16th century Dakani manuscript / David Matthews Islamic glass bracelets: some hints from Fustat / George Scanlon Princes and heroes of Bandar-i Taheri a late Qajar fort and the "Shahnama" / Jennifer Scarce A manuscript of Mir-Ali al-Katib: a poem on the duties of prayer / Annemarie Schimmel The oval agate plate of the book cover of the Bamberg Apocalypse / Avinoam Shalem The tomb of Ghiyath al-Din at Tughluquabad: pisé architecture of Afghanistan translated into stone in Delhi / Mehrdad Shokoohy, Natalie H. Shokoohy The illustrations of Baghdad 282 in the Topkapi Sarayi Library in Istanbul / Eleanor Sims The ethnogenesis of the Pashtuns / Willem Vogelsang Echoes in a landscape Western Afghanistan in 1989 / Bruce Wannell Two ivory plaques in the British Museum / Rachel Ward A note on Hedwig glasses / David Whitehouse.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 76 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 28 cm. Introduction : Irène Momtaz has been dealing in Islamic art for almost thirty years, and has sold items to public collections as well as advising private collectors. During that time, one of the most distinguishing elements in Irène's work has always been her impeccable sense of taste and quality. In her view, objects were more than items of historical or scholarly value, but always manifestations of beauty. The play between materials, shapes, colours and designs created by Islamic craftsmen, hundreds of years ago, can still trigger our imagination and reflection on the variety in the natural and created world that surrounds us. The objects presented here e examples from major categories of the Islamic decorative arts from the 9th-10th centuries to the 18th century AD, from different parts of the Islamic World. Amongst them are ceramics, metalwork, glass, textiles and woodwork. They comprise a large repertoire of designs: animate and inanimate, from the vegetal and figural to the calligraphic and geometric, and ranging from the naturalistic to the abstract. This shows that at all times Islamic craftsmen and designers were driven to translate particular forms into designs suited to particular objects and techniques in which they were executed, from the painted surface to the sculpted body. In this way ordinary everyday objects assumed a status higher than that of the sheer utilitarian. They could sometimes tell a story, reflect on its user, or remind him of the divine. Looking at the variety of objects seen here, one notices that a common thread through the history of Islamic craft production is the creativity, intuition and innovation of craftsmen and designers, always ready to experiment with new techniques, shapes and designs in order to reach particular markets of consumers. A particularly good example are the ceramics of Iznik, some of which are presented here, where the production of tiles for the Ottoman imperial mosques, enabled potters to transfer the same costly techniques of production to more mundane wares for the commercial market. Likewise, in the early Islamic period in Iraq and later Iran, potters found a way to recreate the look of precious metal objects by applying to the surface of ceramics a metallic lustrous sheen. This method was unique to Islamic work- shops and opened new horizons of decoration for ceramics for centuries after. In Europe, the products of Islamic craftsmen were so highly regarded that for centuries they were treated as prized possessions of royal courts and the church, across restraints of culture and faith. Like our forefathers, who marvelled at the beauty of Islamic decorative arts, we still have today the opportunity to draw pleasure from its exquisiteness and intricacy. By doing so, we can reflect on the culture that produced it and enter a world far beyond the limits of our contemporary surroundings. Dr. Jochen Sokoly.…

1st edition thus. 4to. 25pp. Colour frontispiece and 99 colour plates. Ex-library, with blind stamp to title page and plate 99, library inkstamps and label to front f.e.p. and pastedown, original gilt lettered green cloth, spine lightly faded with accession number to tail. US$13.

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Dust jacket is severely worn out but the book's condition is acceptable. In English. pp., color ills., 29x24 cm.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 24 pages, mounted colour illustrations : 31 cm.

1st ed. - Softcover.

4to, 27pp. + XCIX plates. Original cloth in predominantly black pictoral dustwrapper, slightly edgeworn and very slightly chipped toward backstrip. Full page, full colour photographic reproducitions of Islamic artifacts on and paintings on plates. A bright copy in very good to near-fine condiiton. First edition. …

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. 128 pages, many drawings, black and white plates, 4 pages colour, ; 26 cm. A fully illustrated account of the glass finds from nine seasons of archaeological excavations in south Cairo between 1964 and 1981. These finds are a principle source for the history of the glass industry in Egypt from the Umayyad period down to the Fatimid caliphate with all the glass techniques of the Islamic world represented, mainly from local manufacture but also imported.…

Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st.

paperback. Zustand: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. xviii, 316 pages, 60 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 29 cm. Chapters on The arts of the book, Carpets & textiles, Metalwork, Ceramics and Rock crystals. Issued in a slip case.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. Contains previous owners inscription in pen NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 344 pages. 9.50x6.80x1.10 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. English text; Hardcover (cloth without dust jacket - as issued. In splicase.); 171 pages with colour and black-and-white illustrations throughout.; 27 x 38 cm; 2.89 kg; Used book in very good condition with minor scuffs and signs of wear in the slipcase and hardcover cloth. The spine is slightly faded as usual. Interior as new.; This volume was originally published by Kodansha as part of a limited deluxe 12 volume set in 1974, this critically acclaimed and now scarce masterpiece has been issued in a standard edition with no compromise in the quality of scholarship or production, handsomely cloth-bound with an attractive slipcase.; "In 1974 the display of Chinese ceramics of all types covering all periods from the second century B.C. to the nineteenth century A.D. is not only as representative of this great art as any other museum, but it also contains each class at least one, often several, of the acknowledge masterpieces. The same applies to the Japanese porcelain. The Islamic pottery is also fully representative, while the Turkish pottery of the Isnik kilns is one of the three finest collections in the world. Only in the field of Korean porcelain, where the collection is no more than fair, is it still necessary to acquire a fuller range of outstanding pieces." excerpt from the introductory text by Douglas Barrett, Keeper of the Department of Oriental Antiquities, 1981.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. 2 volume set in blue cloth slip-case. 439 pages fully illustrated in colour, numerous line drawings section on documentary inscriptions with translations hardback with dust jacket (slipcased) 36 x 26 cm. 'This two-part volume contains a large and important group of objects and manuscripts that may be broadly categorised as scientific instruments, tools or magical implements. Many objects of this kind have never before been systematically catalogued, and this volume brings together much information previously scattered to present a corpus of material for future comparative study. The astronomical instruments are those primarily connected with the fundamental concerns of Islamic astronomy determining the times of prayer and the direction of Mecca and the teaching and practice of cosmology and astrology. The Collection includes important individual pieces, among them a fine celestial globe made in 1285 6 and a unique Judeo-Arabic astrolabe of c. 1300. Another 218 entries include medical manuscripts, magic bowls, amulets and other magical or geomantic devices that reflect different aspects of medieval Islamic medical care, while a group of mortars, a selection from the large collection of locks, and miscellaneous tools such as scissors, scales and weights, complete this survey of objects which embody the varied preoccupations of Islamic culture. The information presented includes a ground-breaking study of leather workers in medieval Iran.'.…

One hundred plates in colour with an introductory essay on Islamic art. Ernest Benn, London 1957. 25 pages text + plates. 4:o. Original cloth. Dust jacket worn.[#213291].

orig. wrappers. Zustand: Minor wear. VG. 28x24cm, 75 pp. Gallery catalogue. Color photo illustrations. (illustrator).

Well illustrated in colour. Cloth. Pages unnumbered. 4to. Covers slightly soiled, slightly worn. Dedication on endpaper. Pages sunned. Slightly used.

orig. cloth. 24x17cm, 205 pp., Series: Oriental Studies, 4 Contains 10 papers. Includes: S. M. Stern "A Manuscrpt from the Library of the Ghaznavid Amir 'Abd al-Rashid"; M O. Gerabar "Notes on the Iconography of the 'Demotte' Shah-nama"; Sofie Walzer "The Topkapu Saray Manuscript of the Persian Kalila wa-Dimna (dated A.D. 1413)"; E. Grube "Herat, Tabriz, Istanbul: The Development of a Pictorial Style"; G.M. Meredith-Owens "A Copy of the Rawzat al-Safa with Turkish Miniatures"; A.S. Melikian Chirvani "L'école de Shiraz et les origines de la miniature moghole"; Douglas Barrett "Painting at Bijapur"; R. Pinder-WIlson "An Illustrated Mughal Manuscript from Ahmadabad"; M. Idris Siddiqi "An Illustrated Manuscript from Sind"; B.W. Robinson "Qajar Painted Enamels". Minor rubbing. Some light soil to dustwrapper. VG., dustwrapper.…

4to. pp. 143, 60 (illus). 60 b/w illus. & many double-sided colour plates. biblio. cloth. dw. (tear to top edge of back cover).