4to. xii, 119 pp of French text, 12 b/w plates, 69 pp of Arabic text, 18 b/w illustrations in text, half-title, publisher’s original wrappers, biblio, title printed in French & Arabic, Unopened, cover lightly soiled with small cut at lower margin, otherwise copy inside clean & in very good condition, Memoires presentes a L’Institut D’Egypte, Tome 56, Imprimerie de L’Institut Francais d’Archeologie Orientale, Le Caire, first edition, 1961.

Synopsis

An academic study of Arabic miniatures illustrating the second part of “Kitab al-Aghani” of Abi al-Faraj al-Asfahani. [Creswell Supplement I, 296].