[Rarebooks] FS: Two Books on Antique Islamic Metalwork

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

"Islamic Metalwork. The Nuhad Es-Said Collection"

by James W. Allan. Published in London by Sotheby Publications in 1982.

The beautifully illustrated, well-written catalog of this small but fine
collection of medieval inlaid Islamic metalwork. The objects date from the
13 and 14th centuries (with a few earlier and later), and each of the 27
pieces is fully illustrated (many with additional photographs of details),
and described, with notes regarding their inscriptions. A lovely,
important catalog.

Hardcover. 10”x13”, 128 pages, filled with color and black & white
illustrations, dust jacket. Jacket with a little light wear, otherwise in
fine, clean condition.  $275~

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"Metalwork of the Islamic World. The Aron Collection"

by James W. Allan. Published in London by Sotheby’s Publications in 1986.

A beautifully illustrated, scholarly catalog of this distinctive
collection, featuring Islamic metalwork from (primarily) Syria, Egypt,
Iran, Turkey, Yemen and Afghanistan of the 13th-15th centuries. In
addition to the catalog itself, where each of the 44 pieces is fully
illustrated and described, there are a number of essays which were
suggested by individual pieces in the collection- 'Islamic Metalwork and
the Mediterranean', 'Muhammad ibn Khutlukh and the History of Early
Islamic Incense-Burners', 'Islamic Metalwork in Medieval Yemen', 'On
Phialae in the Islamic World', and 'Cairo, Damascus or Venice? Possible
Provenances of Mamluk Metalwork'.

Hardcover. 10”x13”, 168 pages, many color, black & white and line
illustrations. Pictorial cloth, fine condition.  $250~

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