Meisterstucke Orientalischer Knupfkunst
Hardcover
1922 · [Berlin]
by Grote-Hasenbalg, Werner
[Berlin], 1922. Hardcover. Good. Two small cloth portfolio volumes of unbound plates -- Mappe I & II. Each volume contains 60 unbound color plates or rugs with captions on front and text on back in German. 19cm. Mappe I has the plate list but it is lacking in Mappe II. A folding map with an advertisement for the author's "Der Orientteppich" is also found in the first volume. The paper portfolio flaps are worn and a flap or 2 is missing. Contents sound and clean. German text. A popular work on Oriental rugs. This set lacks the separate text volume. An English-language edition was also published ("Masterpieces of Oriental Rugs"). (Inventory #: 84666)