Arab Art As Seen Through the Monuments of Cairo from the 7th Century to the 18th Tapa dura - 1983

London: Al Saqi Books, 1983. First edition in English (hardback). 4to (33cm by 24cm), 266pp. 200 plates (mainly in colour), 34 text figures. Original decorated black cloth, card slipcase. The book is in very good condition; the slipcase is just about in good condition (rubbed and scuffed). ISBN 0863560008

Paris: Le Sycomore and Al Saqi Books, 1983. Oversized hardcover with colourful printed board, no dust jacket, in very good condition, in slipcase in good condition. Slipcase is marked and scuffed, and torn at the spine ends and fore-edges. Spine ends are lightly creased, otherwise almost as new. LW. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Used.

Paris and London: Le Sycomore; Al Saqi , 1983. Cloth. Very Good. 34 cm; 265 pages and 176 plates, many in color. Bound in decorated cloth. No blemishes. Contents: Portrait of Egypts nature, soil, and climate, and of the various human races its population comprises -- Historical prolegomena : First period; The caliphs; From the conquest of `Amr to the Ayyubids--8th to 13th centuries -- Historical prolegomena : Second period; The Mamluks -- Historical prolegomena : Third period; From the conquest of Sultan Selim to the conquest of Bonaparte--16th to 18th centuries -- The government, mores, and customs of the Mamluks -- Description of the city of Cairo -- Religious architecture -- Civil architecture -- Military architecture -- Arts related to architecture -- Arts independent of architecture -- The origin, development, and decay of Arab architecture

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