Les Mosquées de Samarcande. Fascicule I.
Gour-Emir. Mecheti Samarkanda. Vypusk I. Gur-Emir [all published].
Stock Code 92971
Saint-Petersbourg, Exped. pour la confection des papiers d'Etat, 1905
Original price
$12,450.00
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Original price
$12,450.00
Original price
$12,450.00
$12,450.00
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$12,450.00
Current price
$12,450.00
Mosques along the silk road. the preferred large broadsheet format.
An 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.
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, some minor wear to margins and a couple of repairs to marginal tears; loose as issued with part of the lower wrapper remaining, a good copy.
An 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.
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, some minor wear to margins and a couple of repairs to marginal tears; loose as issued with part of the lower wrapper remaining, a good copy.
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