AN INTRODUCTION FO ISLAMIC ARMS - VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM Tapa dura - 1985

Hardback. Acceptable.

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1985. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 10" x 7 1/4", 48 pages, colour frontispiece, 43 illustrations in colour and black and white, glossary, list for further reading. Illustrated with objects from the Victoria and Albert Museum collection, and written by one of the museum curators. Illustrated boards, slightly rubbed, otherwise a very good copy. .

1985. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 48 pages, with pictorial cover and illustrations throughout. Light edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and bright copy. Record # 457617

HMSO/Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1985, 1985. 1st ed. 48p. b/w Photos. Pictorial cover. Fine Copy. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Book.

London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Moderately scuffed boards. Mild edgewear, front corners bumped. Clean, bright, tight. 48 pp with glossary and further reading. Forty-three exhibits of Victoria & Albert Museum Islamic arms collection.

London England: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Hardcover. First Edition. Islamic Arms. Waterstain mark to top edge of pages. Slight foxing to end inside covers. Arab technology was an important factor in the development and spread of gunpowder. Islamic gunmakers did not, as in the West, constantly change the design of firearms. As a result, a successful lock design would survive long after it had been discarded in Europe. islamic armourers have always respected tradition. The curved single-edged swords still worn for ceremony, differ little from those carried in the 15th century. What appealed to 19th century collectors and curators was the lavish decoration of these arms - watered steel blades with surfaces like moire silk, guns covered with delicate enamelled gold mounts and dagger hilts carved from semi-precious stones. The wide geographical area covered by this introduction includes Turkey, the Caucasus, North Africa, Persia and India. Anthony North illustrates his text principally from the… Leer más

Stationery Office Books, 1986 2024-02-05. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 48 pp.; frontis., bw & color plates; 8vo.: Bright copy with no ownership markings, bubbling to front paste-down, touch of bumping to bottom of spine: Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.