Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good+ green cloth. Cover quite darkened and soiled, with some fraying along joints. Free end papers are also schmutzy, with diagonal slice at bottom corner of front one. Interior is sound and pretty clean. All plates and fold-outs present.
Seller: Grey Matter Books, Hadley, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3720.01 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: x, 111 pp., half-title, colour frontispiece, 91 plates and illustrations, mostly photographic, a few in colour, some folding, bookplates of John Home, and A.H.S. Megaw, publisher's cloth gilt, faded and rubbed at spine, vignette in Arabic within Islamic decoration (QUBBAT AL-SAKHRA, AL-QUDS AL-SHAREEF) on title page and in gilt on upper cover, lower joint split, previous owner’s inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise copy inside clean & in very good condition. The Dome of the Rock is one of the oldest Islamic monuments still standing today. It has a grandiose monumental form representing one of a small number of buildings in the Islamic world that may be chronicled as part of the creation and formation of an Islamic art in general. It s located at the centre of the Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem. An important study on the Dome of the Rock by a leading specialist in Islamic arts. The work discusses the character and condition of the structure, the external decoration, the lead covering the Dome and the roof between the Drum and the Octagon wall, the internal decoration, the original window and traces of former mosaic covering to the outer walls, the porches, and the inscriptions on the tiles. Bibliographical reference: Reference: Creswell 425. #24524.
Seller: FOLIOS LIMITED, Witney, United Kingdom
Price: US$3748.19 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: original gilt decorated cloth, pp. X, 110, together 49 unnumbered plates (32 fullpage b/w photographic plates, 17 huge color plates) displaying 68 "figures"; at the end of the book " bis" plates of figures 43-66; covers slightly rubbed with little bumping to corners; contents clean, paper white, no soiling, no tears, no stamps, partially still unopened at top; colors of plates fresh and vibrant; overall at least very good; please inquire before ordering
Seller: CRIVELLI-BOOKS, Berlin, Germany
Price: US$5772.43 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Large 4to. (32 x 25 cm.) pp.x+111. Original green cloth gilt,large circular Islamic gilt decorative device to upper cover. 49 unnumbered full page plates comprising 17 printed in colour and 32 b/w photographic plates, displaying 68 "figures" and in addition plus at the end of the book 24 " bis" plates on folding leaves of figures 43-66. Discreet rubber stamp "Cambio" to foot of title and rear of last plate. Small white splash mark to spine, generally an excellent copy. A fine scholarly and well illustrated description of this most important Islamic monument located at the centre of the Haram al-Sharif, the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem.
Seller: Robert Frew Ltd. ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom