Book production - Bookbinding - Byzantine, Islamic

Lot Comprises:

Assunta Di Febo, Kostantinos Houlis & Sever J. Voicu, Legature bizantine vaticane: storia dei materiali e delle tecniche di manifattura: mostra organizzata per il cinquantenario dell'Istituto centrale per la patologia del libro, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 8vo., publisher's printed wrapper

Assunta Di Febo, Kostantinos Houlis & Sever J. Voicu, Legature bizantine vaticane: storia dei materiali e delle tecniche di manifattura: mostra organizzata per il cinquantenario dell'Istituto centrale per la patologia del libro, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 8vo., publisher's printed wrappers

Georges Marçais & Louis Poinssot, Objets kairouanais IXe au XIIIe siècle, reliures, verreries, cuivres et bronzes, bijoux (Direction des antiquités et arts, Notes et documents, 11), Tunis, Tournier, 1948, large 4to., modern 3/4 morocco over marbled boards, head‐edge gilt, bookplate of Julia Parker Wightman (1909-1994)

Julian Raby & Zeren Tanindi, Turkish Bookbindings in the 15th Century, (Association Internationale de Bibliophilie), London, 1993, fol., publisher's green cloth gilt

Friedrich Paul Theodor Sarre, Islamische Bucheinbände (Buchkunst des Orients, 1), Berlin, Scarabaeus-Verlag, 1923, large fol., edition of 110 copies, publisher's green paper impressed with gilt arabesques, green slipcase, red endpapers, dated bookplate of Oscar Ladner, Vienna, 1916

Gulnar Bosch, John Carswell, Guy Petherbridge, Islamic bindings & bookmaking [exhibition, the Oriental Institute, the University of Chicago, May 18-August 18, 1981], Chicago, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, [1981], fol., publisher's brown cloth gilt, dust jacket

Victoria & Albert Museum

Duncan Haldane, Islamic bookbindings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, World of Islam Festival Trust in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983, fol., publisher's simulated brown leather, dust jacket

Sold as a group, not subject to return.