8vo. Volume I: xv, 372 pp., frontispiece portrait, 1 folding map, b/w plates / Volume II: [2], 335 pp., English, French & German text, contemporary blue cloth, title gilt on spine & front cover, biblio of Kramers writings, set from the library of Professor H. P. Blok with his stamp on front endpaper of volume one and his inscription on front endpaper of volume two, otherwise set in very good condition, E.J.Brill, Leiden, 1954-1956.

Synopsis

Rare work. Johannes Hendrick Kramers, a German orientalist who worked as an interpreter to the Netherlands Legation in Istanbul for six years. In 1922 he was appointed as a professor in the University of Leiden on the initiative of his old teacher Dr. Snouck Hurgronje.
The present collection comprises a number of articles not previously published, from those who left behind and deals with different aspects of Islamic civilization.