Folio. vii, 155 pp., 8 plates numbered A to H, 54 plates in heliogravure, French text with some Arabic, original hard boards, soiled & rubbed round edges, title printed in red & black on front cover, appendices, biblio, index, weak spine, copy inside clean and in good condition, Publications du Musee Arabe du Caire, Imprimerie de L’Institut Francais D’Archeologie Orientale, Le Caire, first edition, 1933.

Synopsis

Gaston Wiet, a leading specialist in Islamic art. He worked between 1909 and 1911 with the Institut Français d’Archeologie in Egypt. After the second world war he worked with the French forces in Syria and Lebanon producing several studies on Islamic art in Syria. This work presents in the first part 71 samples of Arabic epigraphy exhibited at the exhibition. The second part presents numerous samples of Egyptian products. Creswell, 779.