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Lot 153
Sale 800 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
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Nov 12, 2020
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Nov 13, 2020
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Lot Description
[MIDDLE EASTERN ART]. SAKISIAN, Arménag Bey (1875-1949). La Miniature Persane du XIIe au XVIIe Siècle. Paris and Brussels: Les Editions G. Van Oest, 1929.
Folio. 106 plates (including 2 in color) of reproductions of 193 Persian miniatures. Half blue morocco gilt, top edge gilt (rubbing to extremities, slight soiling to bottom edge); original wrappers bound in. Provenance: M.L. Hermanos (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of Sakisian’s academic study of Persian miniatures produced in Iran between the 12th and 17th centuries.
[With:]
BINYON, Laurence (1869-1943). -- Wilkinson, James Vere Stewart (1885-1957). -- GRAY, Basil (1904-1989). Persian Miniature Painting. Including a Critical and Descriptive Catalogue of the Miniatures Exhibited at Burlington House January-March, 1931. London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1933. Folio. Frontispiece, 113 plates, a few in color. Original yellow-brown cloth stamped in gilt (very light rubbing to extremities). FIRST EDITION.
[With:]
BINYON, Laurence (1869-1943). -- Wilkinson, James Vere Stewart (1885-1957). -- GRAY, Basil (1904-1989). Persian Miniature Painting. Including a Critical and Descriptive Catalogue of the Miniatures Exhibited at Burlington House January-March, 1931. London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1933. Folio. Frontispiece, 113 plates, a few in color. Original yellow-brown cloth stamped in gilt (very light rubbing to extremities). FIRST EDITION.
Property from a Prominent Chicago Collection