An extensive collection of uniformly rebound books on Oriental rugs & carpets in brown half calf with orange cloth boards to include: Lewis (F.) Oriental Rugs and Textiles: The Perez Collection, Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1953, large folio with many tipped in plates; Tattersall (C.) Fine Carpets in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1924, large folio, limited edition numbered 335/450; Clark (Hartley) Bokhara, Turkoman and Afghan Rugs, London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1922, 4to; Mumford (John Kimberley) Oriental Rugs, London: Sampson, Low Marston & Co., 1901, 4to; Jones (H. McCoy) et al, An Exhibition of VIllage and Nomadic Weavings of Persia, Washington: The Cosmos Club, 1971, 4to; Tattersall (C.) A History of British Carpets, Essex: F. Lewis, 1934, folio; Grote-Hasenbalg (Werner) Der Orientteppich, Berlin: Scarabaeus Verlag, 1922, repasted in two albums; Ellwanger (W. D.) The Oriental Rug: A Monograph, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, 8vo; Coxon (Herbert) Oriental Carpets, London: n.p., {undated], fold out map; Lewis (F.) The Pontremoli Collection of Carpets, Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1942, 1942, 4to, deckled page edges; Sotheby & Co. [Auction Catalogue] Catalogue of A collection of Highly Important Oriental Carpets sold by order of the Kevorkian Foundation, 1969; two volumes; amongst other volumes on Oriental and European rugs and carpets (qty)

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