Doshi, Saryu

Maharashtra

Mumbai, India, Marg Publications, 1985. Hardcover. light blue cloth boards w/ green tiling & printing. 292 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. glossy, grey illustrated dustjacket. An ex-libris plate to cover flyleaf & pen written identification numbers. A very nice pictorial history of Maharashtra, India. Sections include: Past and Present, the Cultural Milieu, Traditions in Art, Historical Monuments and Bombay. A nice copy. VG. area of soiling to front cover w/ spot to spine. bumping to spine top; creasing to spine edges & back cover edge. upper corner bumped/creased. dustjacket has edge-wear & chips to edges; creasing to spine & corners.

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Book number: 179545

Catalogue: History - Middle Eastern

Keywords: Maharashtra; History of Maharashtra; History of India ; Maharashtra, History of Maharashtra, History of India ; ;

Okasha, Sarwat

The Muslim Painter and the Divine: The Persian Impact on Islamic Religious Painting

London, Park Lane, 1981. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, glossy blue dust jacket with black lettering and color illustration on front, xvii, 158 pp, richly illustrated with 30 color illustrations and 67 monochrome. "In this book.. Dr. Okasha surveys the relation of Islam itself to Islamic paintnig and tries to explain an apparent paradox-that while Islam has nevertheless pervaded and inspired the art of the Persians, Arabs and Turks since their conversion to its doctrines, there is little in Islam that corresponds to the paintings of Biblical and legendary subjects so common in Christian Europe."- Dust jacket Contents include: The prohibition of figurative art in Islam -- Some contrasts with Western European painting -- Religious painting in Islam -- Representations of the Prophet Muhammad -- Representations of other prophets -- Painting and mysticism -- Heaven and Hell. VG (very small ink writing in corner of title page) .

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Book number: 176218

Catalogue: History - Middle Eastern

Keywords: Middle Eastern History ; Islamic Books and Manuscripts ; ; Middle Eastern History

Vespignani, Giorgio

IL Circo Di Constantinopoli Nuova Roma

Spoleto, Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, 2001. Paperback. White wraps with black and brown lettering and decoration. 242 pp. BW illustrations. Text in Italian. Includes bibliographical references and index. VG .

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Book number: 175748

Catalogue: History - Middle Eastern

Keywords: Middle Eastern History ; Constantinople ; ; Middle Eastern History

Wheeler, Mortimer Sir

Early India and Pakistan, to Ashoka

New York / Washington, Frederick A. Praeger, 1968. Hardcover. orange cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing. 241 pgs w/ illustrations, drawings & maps. top edge red. glossy orange & brown illustrated dustjacket. A very nice, sharp copy. VG+. lower covers have shelf-wear & rubbing to corners. ex-libris plate to cover fly. back cover flyleaf has area of foxing. dustjacket has edge-wear to lower covers; cover flap chipped.

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Book number: 180389

Catalogue: History - Middle Eastern

Keywords: Early India, Early Pakistan, History of India, History of Pakistan ; Early India, Early Pakistan, History of India, History of Pakistan ; ;