8vo. Volume I: L’architecture Tunisie, Algérie, Maroc, Espagne, Sicile de IXe au XIIe siécle: xi, 460 pp., 252 figures in & hors text / Volume II: L’architecture Tunisie, Algérie, Maroc, Espagne, Sicile de XIIIe au XIXe Siécle: pages 465 - 967, 254 figures in & hors text, contemporary quarter calf, lightly rubbed at edges, title gilt on raised spine, marbled end paper, vignettes on two title pages, original wrappers preserved, Editions, Auguste Picard, Paris, first edition, 1926 - 1927.

Synopsis

Georges Marcais, a leading French scholar in Islamic studies, he published several works covering Islamic architect and art in Syria, Egypt and North Africa. This work covers Islamic architect between the 9th the 12th century in North Africa, al-Andalus and Sicily. [Creswell 258.]