4to. 92 pp., 89 colour & b/w plates, cloth backed boards, title in black on spine & in white on upper cover, biblio, index, Monographien Kunstlerischer Schrift Band 9, cover slightly rubbed at corners, otherwise copy clean & in very good condition, Heintze & Blanckertz, Berlin / Leipzig, first edition, [1942].

Synopsis

An academic study on Arabic calligraphy by a leading German scholar. Kuhnel examines Arabic calligraphy depicted in early manuscripts, tomb stone, coins, ceramics, wood carving, metals, and arms.
Bibliographic Reference: Creswell Supplement II, 318.