Mirror of the Orient

Boston, Massachusetts: New York Graphic Society, 1981. Fine condition in bright, shiny Fine dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NOT price clipped ($39.95). A clean, square, tight copy. Inner hinges are perfect. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Oblong. 11" wide by 9.5" tall. 94 color illustrations. "First English language edition" is so stated on the copyright page. Bound in the original blue cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "This handsome book ingeniously couples the brilliant color photographs of Roland and Sabrina Michaud with exquisite reproductions of miniatures from the collections at the Louvre Museum, the National Museum of Delhi, India, the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art in Istanbul, Turkey, and many other collections. The detailed color miniatures evoke a sublime quality, and the accompanying twentieth-century photographs capture the essence and elegance of these fourteenth- to nineteenth-century paintings and the lands they depictThey beckon us into the timeless haunts of Persia, Turkey, Afghanistan, and all of central Asia". First Edition in English. Oversize Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. Unpaginated (but 128 pages).…