Middle East.- Prisse d'Avesnes (Achille Constant T. Emile) L'Art Arabe, 4 vol., first edition, comprising text vol. with engraved plates and illustrations and 3 plate vol. with 200 plates (22 engraved and 178 lithographed of which 39 tinted views and 130 chromolithographs, many heightened with gold), text vol. with occasional spotting, plate vol. with foxing almost throughout, sometimes heavy, vol.3 broken, text vol. in half cloth over boards with gilt-lettered morocco spine label, rubbed, plate vol. in contemporary half morocco but spines worn and all backstrips detached, (some parts loosely inserted), 4to and folio, Paris, 1877.

⁂ A complete, albeit worn and foxed, copy of this magnificent work on Islamic art with sumptuous chromolithograph plates of interiors, ceramics, textiles, metalwork, bookbindings, manuscripts etc., and many fine tinted plates of mosques and other buildings.