8vo. 16 pp., of text, + 60 b/w plates & plans hors text, original cloth backed printed boards,slightly faded and rubbed round edges, paper slightly browned, library stamps on title page, endpaper & 2 pages, previous owner’s inscription on front endpaper, Wilhelm Goldmann, Verlag, Leipzig, 1922.

Synopsis

Treatise on the architecture of Islamic Mosques from India to Spain including its historic background. Profusely illustrated with 60 pages of b/w reproductions of artwork and photographs as well as architectural plans of mosques in Medina, Mekka, Cordoba, Seville, Cairo, Damascus, Jerusalem, Korm, Bostam and Isfahan among others.