Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1913. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 36, (4)pp. 8 color plates. Illustrated paper covered boards with gold lettering. Blue illustrated endpapers. Study of Persian carpets from the 15th to 19th centuries, with eight color plates and more than fifty text illustrations. Staining and fading to boards, spine chipped..... More
Toshkent: Ministry of cultural affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2004. First edition. Softcover. Small Folio. 223 (1)pp. Original color photo-illustrated folding wraps with white lettering on cover. "Bukhara is one of the ancient cities of the world and for many centuries it has made great contributions in the development..... More
Leningrad: Petersburg Tapestry Factory, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Small folio. 269, [1]pp. Original illustrated cloth with red lettering on spine. Book housed in its illustrated paper covered slipcase. A well-illustrated survey of the output of the Imperial Tapestry Factory, from 1716 until its closing in 1859. This work is profusely..... More
Graz: Verlag für Sammler, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 41, [1]pp (text), 48 leaves (plates). Saddlebags are the only functional items that were produced in all areas of the Orient, by all nomadic and semi nomadic tribes, using all different techniques you can find in the production of rugs. They..... More
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Tokyo: NHK Culture Center, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. 95, [1]pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over glossy paper covered boards, with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Front free endpaper inscribed and signed by the author. llustrated with 94 color photographic reproductions, this striking catalog was made as a...... More
Wesel: Uta Hülsey, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 343, [1]pp. Original pictorial dust-jacket over gilt-stamped cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Title page inscribed and signed by Belkis Balpinar to her friends Stella and Fred [Krieger]. The carpets published in color in this book have been selected from the carpets..... More
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1973. Second printing. Hardcover. Folio (14" x 10-3/4"). 294pp. Glossary. Photographic dust jacket, spine lettered in blue, over raw colored cloth, spine stamped in purple. Profusely illustrated with photographs, some in color. Contents: Introduction -- Magdalena Abakanowicz -- Olga De Amaral -- Evelyn Anselevicius --..... More
San Francisco: Sotheby's Publications - The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 275, [1]pp. Original pictorial dust-jacket over blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Color frontispiece. Title page inscribed and signed by Caroline McCoy Jones and Cathryn M. Cootner. This magnificent book is the..... More
Warminster: Aris and Phillips Ltd, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. IX, [1], 101, [1]pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over gilt stamped cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Pictorial endpapers. Tipped-in color frontispiece. Literature on the Tibetan carpet is scant. In spite of the fact that many traditional techniques of spinning, dyeing..... More
London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., 1967. Second edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xvi, 384pp. Original gray dustjacket over gray cloth with embossed black ornament on cover and gilt tooling around and gilt lettering on black stamped black label of spine. Color frontispiece. A survey of the carpet-weaving industry of Persia based on..... More
Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 1975. Hardcover. Quarto. 481 (1)pp. Original tan cloth with gilt lettering on spine, in original illustrated dustjacket with white and black lettering on spine. "This book presents examples of old Oriental carpets still to be found on the market today. It deals mainly with specimens of..... More
London: Thames and Hudson, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 430 (2)pp. Original light brown cloth with gilt-stamped medallion on cover, gilt lettering on spine, in original color-illustrated dustjacket, black lettering on spine. With four hundred and sixty-six illustrations, forty-two full page in color and four maps, drawings and b/w reproductions..... More
Philadelphia: Philadelphia 8th ICOC, Inc., 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [4], II, 109, [1]pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over black cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Pictorial endpapers. Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Eighth International Conference on Oriental Carpets in Philadelphia, this work, and the..... More
Istanbul: Middle East Video Corp. 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Small Folio. 175pp. Original photo-illustrated dustjacket over textured paper-covered boards with embossed photographic image and gilt lettering on cover and spine. Illustrated endpapers. "Turkish costumes should be evaluated with regard to the nation's history, the wide geographic area it covers, cultures..... More
London: Thames and Hudson, 1979. Hardcover. Quarto. 394pp. Original orange cloth with gilt-stamped emblem on cover, gilt lettering on spine, in original illustrated dustjacket, black lettering on spine; housed in plain gray cardboard slipcase. Map in b/w on endpapers. "Their vivid colours and attractive designs, often combined with supreme workmanship..... More
Berlin: Museum für Völkerkunde, 1993. First edition. Softcover. Signed by author on half-title. Large Quarto. 87pp. Original pictorial wrappers with white lettering on cover and spine. "The Turkoman carpet collection on Berlin's Ethnographic Museum is neither the largest nor the most representative museum collection in the world. However, apart from..... More
Frankfurt: Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, 1923. Second edition. Hardcover. Folio. 18pp. 43 of 46 plates. Original gray half cloth over decorative paper-covered string-tied portfolio, with blue lettering on spine. Portfolio of 18th century Schleswig-Holstein weaving with striking samples reproduced in color lithography and mounted to heavy paper plates. Includes descriptive text leaflet..... More
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 271, [1]pp. Original pictorial dust-jacket over red cloth, with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Color frontispiece. Textiles were the Incas' most prized possessions. Their first gift to European strangers was made not of gold and silver, but of..... More
London: Published by the author, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. 96pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Illustrated title page. Sales and exhibition catalog by noted dealer in tribal rugs and carpets. Includes a poem on the topic of Caucasian rugs..... More
Mexico City: 1988. First edition. Paperback. 1/1000. Quarto. 55, [1]pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Illustrated with numerous color and b/w photographic reproductions, this remarkable volume looks at the Navajo culture and the sources, techniques, and history of Navajo blanket weaving and the blankets' links with Navajo beliefs, traditions, and experience. One..... More
Pt. Reyes, CA: Magna Mater Verlag, 1988. Limited First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 127, [1]pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over blue cloth, with silver lettering on spine and front cover. The origins of the Turkmen, the nomads of south-west Central Asia responsible for the weavings illustrated in this book have never been..... More
Mulhouse, France: Editions Th. de Dillmont, ca. 1928. First edition. Softcover. Oblong Octavo. 20pp., 24 plates, 14 (4)pp. Original color illustrated wraps with silver lettering on cover. Vignette on title page. Contains twenty-four plates with eighty-seven embroidery patterns containing temporary Turkish works, including the Balkan peninsula and various provinces of..... More
Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press. First American edition. Hardcover. Folio. 238pp. Original illustrated dustjacket over red cloth with gilt ruling and lettering on spine. "Kurt Edelmann's aim was not so much to produce a manual or complete history of the Oriental carpet as to survey the entire field..... More
London: Laurence King Publishing, 1997. First edition. Softcover. Folio. 208pp. Original illustrated wrappers with black lettering on cover, red and white on spine. "The ikat silks of 19th-century Central Asia are unrivalled in their inventive designs, resplendent colours and technical mastery. Ikat is an ancient technique, in which colours are..... More
Tientsin: La Librairie Française, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. X, [2], 48, [2]pp. (text), 26 leaves of plates, 1 leaf (map), 21, [1]pp. (publisher's advertisement). Original grey cloth with blue lettering on spine and front cover. Chromolithographic frontispiece protected with a captioned tissue-guard. Publisher's logo on title page. A pioneering..... More