Silk Road Books & Photos

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Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie

Lucknow City of Illusion

295 pages Prestel Publishers. Al Kazi Collection of photography is beautifully illustrated here to show the splendid architecture of Lucknow.

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Magowan, Robin and Gippreneiter, Vadim

Fabled Cities of Central Asia

Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva 1990 first UK edition.  Hardback in dust wrapper. Beautifully illustrated in colour showing the fine architecture of these old Central Asian Cities.

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Michell George

Architecture of the Islamic World its history and social meaning

Hardback in dust wrapper in good condition but ex library. 700 illustration and 112 in Colour pages 288.

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Mele, Pietro  Francesco

Afghanistan

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Michaud, Roland and Sabrina

Afghanistan

Hardback ex library a couple of the pages have been selotaped back into the book. The binding is rebound. With usual library stamps.

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Michaud, Roland and Sabrina

Caravenes de Tartarie

1977 hardback mint dust wrapper book is in French. Large coffee table book.

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Michaud, Roland and Sabrina

Horsemen of Afghanistan

Hardback first edition in dust wrapper. 1987 very good photos of buzkashi and a photographic record of the Turkmen way of life. Large coffee table book.

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Ministry of Planning of the Royal Government of Afghanistan

Afghanistan Ancient Land with Modern Ways

This book is a hardback large photographic book documenting Afghanistan of the 1960s, dust wrapper present. This is the Afghanistan of King Zahir Shah at the start of the swinging 1960s - a now vanished golden age of peace in Afghanistan. Women had until 1959 been required to wear the Chador this was abolished in 1959 and Afghan Women began to wear Western Dress without having to wear the Chador. The Photos below vividly illustrate Afghan Women in western Dress and in the professions such as Nursing. The book consists of 199 pages illustrated throughout with colour and black and white photos detailing the construction and modernisation of Afghanistan such as the building of Kandahar Airport, Women in a Music shop purchasing records, President Eisenhower landing at Kabul being greeted by Zahir Shah. The book is embossed with the gilt Royal Afghan Coat of Arms and is in English and Pashto. Size 28cmx22cm, published by the Ministry of Planning of the Royal Government of Afghanistan.
Heavy blue faux leather cover with gilt spine lettering. Lovely colourful mapped endpapers, pages clean, binding tight. The reader discovers that both the people of Afghanistan are proud of their past, conscious of their present & confident of their future. An attempt to present an accurate panorama of the "Afghan Life", through text
and profuse photos, black & white & colour.

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Mohamed Bashir

The Arts of the Muslim Knight- The Furusiyya Art Foundation Collection

416 pages Skira Publishers 2008.

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Morris James, Wood, Roger & Wright, Dennis

Persia

Thames and Hudson 1969 Hardback in dust wrapper. 216 pages.