Les Elements Turcs-Ottomans des Broderies Hongroises. (184 Figures). Oszmán-török elemek a magyar hímzésekben. (184 képpel). (Bibliotheca Humanitatis Historica VI.)
Budapest (Vác): Magyar Történeti Múzeum (Kapisztrán Nyomda), 1940. With 187 photographical reproductions of embroderies, of them eight in colour. First edition. Text in Hungarian and French. In publisher’s purple paper. Printed in only 400 copies. 145, (1) p., and 50 plates (four coloured). In fine condition.
Pioneer work in the subject. The study describes the Turkish-Hungarian relation before and of the time of the of Ottoman Hungary (1541–1699), delineates the various Turkish-Ottoman patterns of ornamentation on fabrics, cloths, arms, horse harnesses, carpets and the materials of making the embroderies, and compares them with the Hungarian embroderies collected from the territory of the Kingdom of Hungary.
A scarce and elaborate work.
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Price: €500.00