Gifts of the Sultan: The Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts by Komaroff, Linda, et al - 2011

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011-07-05. Hardcover. Good.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Top of spine slightly bumped. A nice clean copy.

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Los Angeles and New Haven, CT: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2011. Cloth, 335 pages, colour illustrations; 32 cm. Catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 5 to September 5, 2011 and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 23, 2011 to January 15, 2012. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "The giving of gifts both delights the recipient and pleases the giver. Practiced in all societies, gift exchange has a history as long as humanity. This gloriously illustrated catalogue is the first investigation of gift-giving and its impact on the development of art in the Islamic world. Presenting some 240 rare and costly works of art associated with gift exchanges among the courts of Islam, Byzantium, western Europe, and eastern Asia, the book provides a… Read More

New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2011. First. Hardbound. New; in shrink wrap. Bright blue cloth boards with color pictorial DJ, 336 pp., 276 color and BW figures. The giving of gifts--state, religious, and personal--is a practice nearly as ancient and widespread as human culture itself. This sumptuosly illustrated catalogue is the first investigation of gift giving and its impact on the development of art in the Islamic world. Gifts of the Sultan features more than 250 rare and costly works of art associated with gift exchange among the courts of Islam and with those of Byzantium, western Europe, and eastern Asia. Through this window it provides a broad and layered view of Islamic art and culture from the eighth through the nineteenth century.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2011. Hard Cover. f/f. Quarto 335pp Exemplary scholarship and exquisite illustrations on the arts of the Islamic world . A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011. Hardcover. New. 12x9x1. BRAND NEW. Still Sealed in Publishers Shrinkwrap.

Yale University Press , pp. 352 . Hardback. Used.