Hardcover
1899 · Le Caire
by Bey, Max Herz
Le Caire: Imprimerie de l'Institut Francais d'Archéologie Orientale, 1899. Hardcover. Good (light shelfwear to covers, inside flaps are torn loose, pages lightly age toned along edges, all plates are present and otherwise clean). Oversized green cloth portfolio with black lettering and design; II, 34 pp with bw illustrations, 20 leaves of plates with one being in color and 3 being double paged. Text in French. Sultan Hassan Mosque in Cairo. Includes a preface, introduction, a list of the plates and a list of the illustrations in the text. Plates include: location of the mosque, plans of the mosque, and views of the mosque and entry ways from different directions. Illustrations in the text include: chandeliers, vases, lamps and bw illustrations of the mosque. The Mosque of Sultan Hannan is one of the largest in the world and built between 1356-1360.
(Inventory #: 191980)