SCHULZ, Walter Philipp.
Die persisch-islamische Miniaturmalerei. Ein Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte Irans.
Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1914. 2 volumes. Folio. With 200 full-page table illustrations in volume 2, mostly black-white. Contemporary blind-tooled red cloth, with the title on the spine, and a decorated title and printers mark on the front board. [XVIII], 246, [2]; [XVI], [400], [2].
€ 2,950
First edition of a work on the chronological evolution of Persian painting style, which also offers valuable and contemporarily significant lists of artist names and signatures. It includes 18 full-page tables of illustrations in the first and 200 tables in the second volume, highlighting the work of Persian artists from the late antique period of the fifth and sixth to the seventeenth century. The work presents the development and techniques of Persian-Islamic art from manuscript illumination with its intricate calligraphy to depictions of botany and historical events and people.
The binding is slightly rubbed. Otherwise in very good condition with all plates intact. WorldCat 633390672.
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