COMMISSION IMPÉRIALE ARCHÉOLOGIQUE (publisher).

Les Mosquées de Samarcande. Fascicule I.

Name: Les Mosquées de Samarcande. Fascicule I.
Brand: COMMISSION IMPÉRIALE ARCHÉOLOGIQUE (publisher).
SKU: 122025
Price: 10000.00 GBP
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Gour-Emir. Mecheti Samarkanda. Vypusk I. Gur-Emir [all published].

Stock Code 122025

Saint-Petersbourg, Exped. pour la confection des papiers d'Etat, 1905.

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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.

First 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.

Cresswell 304.

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