{"product_id":"122025","title":"Les Mosquées de Samarcande. Fascicule I.","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003emosques along the silk road\u003c\/h4\u003ethe preferred large broadsheet format.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eAn important, large-scale and ambitious undertaking by the Russian Archaeological Commission, whose work in the area prepared the ground for subsequent Western studies. This fascicule is devoted to the celebrated early 15th-century mausoleum of Tamerlane (Timur) and his family, showing plans, cuts and coloured details. It remains to this day unparalleled in scale and significance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst edition, broadsheet (76 x 55 cm); ix pp. including title, dedication, text and plate list, 18 plates after nature by Shchusev, Pokryshkin and Minenko including 12 fully or partly in colour, 3 folding or double-page, 3 illustrations in text, text in Russian and French, leaves not folded, some edges a little frayed, minor loss to bottom right corner of title; with the original printed wrappers, upper and lower wrapper detached, laid on conservation paper with some loss to edges of upper wrapper, in a later black cloth portfolio with ties and leather label to spine, a very good copy.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCresswell 304.","brand":"COMMISSION IMPÉRIALE ARCHÉOLOGIQUE (publisher).","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57460003373431,"sku":"122025","price":13723.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/122025.jpg?v=1789563319","url":"https:\/\/shapero.com\/en-us\/products\/122025","provider":"Shapero Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}