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Product Description: The Shahnama (Book of Kings), which chronicles the history of Iran from the Creation to the Islamic conquest, was written by the poet Firdawsi at the turn of the eleventh century. Its central importance to Iranian culture is reflected in the thousands of copies made since then, many superbly illustrated and produced for royal and other powerful patrons...read more
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9781903470534 | Paul Holberton Pub, March 1, 2008, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: The Shahnama (Book of Kings), which chronicles the history of Iran from the Creation to the Islamic conquest, was written by the poet Firdawsi at the turn of the eleventh century.

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Product Description: The Nasser D. Khalili Collection is the greatest collection of Islamic art in private hands.It contains the largest and most important holdings of Islamic lacquer in the world.The production of Islamic lacquerware, in which papier-mache and wooden penboxes, bookbindings, mirror cases and other objects were decorated in a technique of painting and varnishing, flourished in Iran, India and Turkey in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries...read more
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9781874780632 | Kibo Fndtn, April 23, 2005, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: The Nasser D.
9781874780625 | Kibo Fndtn, April 16, 2005, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: The Nasser D.
9780197276266 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $275.00 | About this edition: This second volume continues the presentation of the Khalili Collection's holdings in Islamic lacquer, the world's largest and most important collection.
9780197276198 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 27, 1997, cover price $325.00 | About this edition: The Khalili Collection contains probably the largest collection of Islamic lacquer in the world and includes bookbindings, pen boxes, caskets and mirror cases, as well as spectacle cases, fans and a backgammon board.

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Product Description: The Shahnama, written in the tenth century by Firdawsi, is the national epic poem of Persia. It chronicles at great length (nine volumes in the full English translation, currently out of print) the reigns and deeds of the earliest Persian kings, over fifty of them, in four dynasties - the Pishdadians, Kayanians, Ashkanians, and Sasanians...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780700716180 | Curzon Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $178.00 | About this edition: The Shahnama, written in the tenth century by Firdawsi, is the national epic poem of Persia.

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9782880310035 | Art Media Resources Ltd, July 1, 2001, cover price $140.00

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Product Description: Published in honour of Basil W. Robinson, Keeper Emeritus of the Victoria and Albert Museum and a key contributor to the growing scholarly interest in Persian miniatures for over 50 years, this book contains both personal appreciations of his work and a bibliography of his writings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Robert Hillenbrand (editor) and B. W. Robinson (editor)
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9781850436591 | I B Tauris & Co Ltd, May 18, 2001, cover price $107.00 | About this edition: Published in honour of Basil W.

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Product Description: Ever since Japan opened its doors to the West in the latter half of the nineteenth century, Westerners have been fascinated by the exquisite art forms that flourished during the previous two hundred years of self-imposed isolation...read more
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9784770023872 | Kodansha Amer Inc, May 14, 1999, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Ever since Japan opened its doors to the West in the latter half of the nineteenth century, Westerners have been fascinated by the exquisite art forms that flourished during the previous two hundred years of self-imposed isolation.

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Product Description: Iranian art of the Qajar period (1779-1925) has long been neglected and is little understood. This beautifully illustrated book for the first time comprehensively examines the flowering of Persian painting and the visual arts of this period...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Brooklyn Museum of Art (corporate author), Brunei Gallery (corporate author), Layla S. Diba (editor), Maryam Ekhtiar (editor), B. W. Robinson (editor) and UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center (corporate author)
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9781860642555 | I B Tauris & Co Ltd, December 1, 1998, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Iranian art of the Qajar period (1779-1925) has long been neglected and is little understood.

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Product Description: Iranian art of the Qajar period (1779-1925) has long been neglected and is little understood. This beautifully illustrated book for the first time comprehensively examines the flowering of Persian painting and the visual arts of this period...read more
By Brooklyn Museum of Art (corporate author), Brunei Gallery (corporate author), Layla S. Diba (editor), Maryam Ekhtiar (editor), B. W. Robinson (editor) and UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center (corporate author)
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9781860642562 | I B Tauris & Co Ltd, August 1, 1998, cover price $65.01 | About this edition: Iranian art of the Qajar period (1779-1925) has long been neglected and is little understood.

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9780947593162 | Curzon Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $158.00

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9780710303981 | Columbia Univ Pr, December 1, 1994, cover price $374.00

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Product Description: Over the last forty years, Basil Robinson has established a reputation as a leading authority on the art of Persia. His work on Persian manuscript illumination represents one of the most important contributions made in this century to the study of the development of this pivotal branch of Islamic art, which absorbed the influence of Arab and Chinese painting, and influenced in turn the miniature painting of Mughal India...read more
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9780907132431 | David Brown Book Co, December 31, 1993, cover price $300.00 | About this edition: Over the last forty years, Basil Robinson has established a reputation as a leading authority on the art of Persia.
9780907132448 | David Brown Book Co, December 31, 1993, cover price $300.00 | About this edition: This second volume of Basil Robinson's Studies concentrates on Persian manuscript illumination, beginning with six studies of artists who worked in this medium.

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Product Description: In this book, B.W. Robinson traces the development of the different styles of Persian painting during the fifteenth century, and considers a number of the problems and issues involved in establishing a methodology and system of classification for Persian painting of that period...read more
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9780814774175 | New York Univ Pr, September 1, 1991, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: In this book, B.

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9780571137534 | Faber & Faber, January 1, 1988, cover price $170.00

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9780571047239 | Faber & Faber, February 1, 1987, cover price $65.00

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Presents reproductions of the prints of the nineteenth-century Japanese artist, Kuniyoshi Utagawa, describes the stories illustrated in them, and examines Kuniyoshi's artistic career
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9780801414886 | Cornell Univ Pr, September 1, 1982, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Presents reproductions of the prints of the nineteenth-century Japanese artist, Kuniyoshi Utagawa, describes the stories illustrated in them, and examines Kuniyoshi's artistic career

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By B. W. Robinson (compiler)
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9780856670725 | Sotheby Parke Bernet Pubns, May 1, 1980, cover price $87.50

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