Mirror of the Invisible World : Tales from the Khamseh of Nizami by Peter J. Chelkowski - 1975

Metropolitan Museum of Art. hardcover. Very Good. 4x0x7. Unmarked hardcover, no jacket. Slight scratches to cover art. Text block in excellent condition.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. hardcover. Good. 11x8x0. Unmarked hardcover no jacket. Small close tear at front cover spine edge. Pasted in business card with a gift inscription from Ardeshir Zahedi Iranian diplomat. Not signed.

This book is clothbound and decorated with paper illustration set in on front cover; there is moderate edgewear and surface scuffing. The binding is tight, the textblock pages are clean; the bottom corner is cut from copyright page, no text is cut out. Full color illustrations with details are tipped in Frontis and throughout.
The lavishly illuminated manuscript Khamsa of Nizami of poems by the 12th-century Persian Nizami Ganjavi was created in the early 1590s for the Mughal Emperor Akbar of the area of Pakistan. Fine calligraphy and miniatures of the highest quality were executed by number of artists and a single scribe. The manuscript has been described as "one of the finest examples of the Indo-Muslim arts of the book". This edition of the translations of "Khosrow and Shirin", "Layla and Majnum", and "The Seven Princesses" was published on the occasion of the opening of the new Islamic Galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Metropolitan Museum of Art. Used - Very Good. 1975. Hardcover. Cloth without dust jacket. Minor shelf-wear. Very Good. (Subject: Literary Criticism).

NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Hardcover. VG (scuffs & scratches to cloth boards. remains tightly bound). Burgundy cloth w/ mounted color illustration. 117 pp. 24 color tipped-in plates. A book of stories from the Khamseh of Nizami, illustrated by beautiful Persian miniatures.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. hardcover. very good(+). Illustrated throughout with beautiful mounted color plates and metallic gold ink. 117 pages. 4to, maroon cloth with inset pictorial label on the cover. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. A very good(+) copy-- scuffed at rear board, sunned at spine.<br/> <br/>

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1975. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0870991426 . In this volume three stories from Persian poem the Khamseh - 'Khosrow and Shirin,' 'Layla and Majnum,' and 'The Seven Princesses' - have been told with abridgement in prose. They are augmented by color reproductions of Persian miniatures based on an early 16th manuscript dated 1524/25; English And Persian Edition; 117 pages .

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine. Bound in the publisher's original burgundy cloth over boards with cover illustration in color, spine stamped in gilt. LIghtly rubbed at edges. Frontis and full color illustrations tipped in throughout.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Hardcover. Quarto; G+; burgundy spine with gilt text; cloth exterior shows slight shelf wear; light sunning to spine and edges; tight binding; straight boards; no jacket; textblock mildly age toned; business card of Ardeshir Zahedi, Ambassador of Iran paper clipped to ffep; frontispiece; interior clean; profusely illustrated in full color plates; 119 pages. 1363485. FP New Rockville Stock.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Hbk 4to, 117pp, profusely illustr full-page color plates, no dj as issued, fine maroon cloth boards with inset illustration and gilt titles, faintly dulled but now in custom acetate jacket, otherwise an excellent clean tight unmarked copy, as new