Folio. Volume I: Kayseri-Nigde: vii, 170 pp., 56 plates (lacks plate 24), 103 figures in text / Volume II: Amasya-Tokat-Sivas. iii, 204 pp., 79 plates, 120 figures in text, original cloth-backed boards, slightly rubbed lightly soiled and rubbed at spine extremities and corners, occasional foxing, otherwise set in good condition, E. de Boccard, Paris, 1931-1934.

Synopsis

First edition of the lavishly illustrated publication. An expert on Islamic architecture, Albert Gabriel arrived in Turkey in 1926. Gabriel was a professor at the Universities of Strasbourg and Istanbul, and in 1930, he became the first director of the Institut Français d’archéologie in Istanbul, preparing the current work and similar reports for the protection of historic buildings. His richly illustrated documentation of historical monuments in Anatolia describes monuments in Kayseri-Nigde, Amasya, Tokat and Sivas.
Volume One of the present work discusses the monuments in Kayseri-Nigde; while volume Two is on the sites at Amasya, Tokat and Sivas. Reference: Creswell 462.