[Rarebooks] FS: Muslim Miniature Paintings in American Collections

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “Muslim Miniature Paintings from the XIII to XIX Century from
Collections in the United States and Canada. Catalogue of the Exhibition”

By Ernst J. Grube.
Published in Venice by Neri Pozza Editore in 1962.

DISCUSSION: The catalog to a loan exhibition which drew on both public and
private collections, and was jointly organized by the Asia Society and the
Fondazione Giorgio Cini of Venice. Ernst J. Grube [1932-2011] was a German
historian of Islamic art and the first curator of the Islamic collection
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He worked in the Arts Library of the
Staatliche Museen in Berlin as assistant to Ernst Kuhnel, curator of the
Islamic collection and one of the first to rank Islamic art on an equal
basis with classical and Western art. Under Kuhnel, Grube's interest in
Medieval art broadened to encompass Islamic art, which occupied him for
the rest of his life during which he became recognized as one of the
leading world authorities. In 1958 Grube obtained a one year fellowship at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where he remained until 1969,
with an official appointment in 1962 in the Islamic department, of which
he became the first curator in 1965 and where he was encouraged to build
the collection."

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 6.5"x8.5", 139 pages plus 125 black & white and 8
color plates, dust jacket.

CONDITION NOTES: The dust jacket has some minor soil and some tears
(please see the photos, above and below). The book itself has some minor
scattered underlining, but otherwise is clean and nice, with a tight
binding.

PRICE: $50. -

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