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1993. Hardcover. New/No Jacket, as so Issued. Hardcover. New book. 424 p., 149 color illus., 30 x 24 cm. A very much expanded exhibition catalogue, with sections on the history of flatweaves in Turkey, culture and religion, dyes, structure, designs, as well as descriptions of the textiles in the illustrations; most are flatweaves. In German.

Knapp, 1910. Loose Folders in a Box. Fair. Loose plates in a box. Deluxe edition. Numbered. The plate folders are in good condition and are generally clean. One of the plates: number XVII: Silk from Ardabil is missing and has been replaced by a copy in more or less equivalent color on high quality paper. Several of the plates have bumped corners; the Damascus prayer rug folder has a 1 inch tear along the side; the Bagdad rug has a 4 inch tear in the middle of the top. The hardcover case binding which holds the plates is in poor condition: the spine is missing so the front and back covers are loose, the cloth ties holding the case closed are missing, the front silk cloth is detached along one edge, the covers are heavily worn at the edges and there are large water stains on the inside, although not affecting the plate folders. This is the deluxe edition, bound in green silk and is numbered: number 7 of 750 opies. Mumford, J. K. THE YERKES COLLECTION OF ORIENTAL CARPETS WITH CRITICAL TEXT BY… Read More

Baktiari Oriental Carpet Gallery / Casper and Robbins, 1982. ISBN 0-933714-67-X. Soft cover. Very Good. Softcover. Used, very good condition. Text by Walter Denny. The illustrations, one per month, are of Turkish tribal rugs.

Ethnographic Museum of Beograd, 1960. Soft cover. Near Fine. Softcover. Used, near fine condition. Crisp, clean, no internal writing. Catalogue of an exhibition of folk art in the Museum.