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Seven Hundred Years of Oriental Carpets

by Erdmann, Kurt

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Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press. First American edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Folio. 238pp. Original illustrated dustjacket over red cloth with gilt ruling and lettering on spine. "Kurt Edelmann's aim was not so much to produce a manual or complete history of the Oriental carpet as to survey the entire field of study and to clarify some of the complex problems relating to carpets, thus providing a new basis for an understanding of the whole subject" (publisher). Profusely illustrated with in-text b/w photographs and 20 color plates of carpets. Includes chapter on carpets of unusual shape. Two Either/Or bookmarks laid in. DJ rubbed with light wear along edges, small tear at head of spine. Light wear along edges of binding and yellowing in margins of block, not affecting images. Previous owner's names inked to free front endpaper, small smudge. DJ in overall good, interior in good+ to very good condition.

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Bookseller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
37756
Title
Seven Hundred Years of Oriental Carpets
Author
Erdmann, Kurt
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - g to vg
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First American edition
Publisher
University of California Press
Place of Publication
Berkeley, Los Angeles
Keywords
paintings, renaissance, baroque, oriental miniatures, antique carpet, konya carpets, animal carpets, holbein carpets, lotto carpets, kashan, garden carpets, figure carpets, Persian carpets, Berlin carpet collection, verse, carpet cartoons

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