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[THERON J. DAMON GROUP OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF TURKISH ANTIQUITIES, SOME WITH HIS NOTES, 1929] GROUP OF 17 PHOTOGRAPHS OF TURKISH ANTIQUITIES SENT TO THERON J. DAMON by a Turkish / Constantinople antiquities dealer, some with Damon notations in reply to the dealer and/or dealer's notations for Damon, in 1929 Damon opened a Near Eastern antiquities shop in New York City after years of diverse activities in Turkey and the surrounding region including teaching at Robert College in Constantinople (see Notes below), the photographs are varying perspectives from full views to details of icons, metalwork, friezes, paintings, and calligraphy, black-and-white on heavier, stiff photographic paper and "agra-lupex" photo paper [a brand of German photo paper of the period] as identified with the logo on the backs of some, ranging in size from 10" x 7-1/2" and 2 oblong photographs with folds about 7" high x 14" across (one with the fold split about three-quarters of its length), 3 of the larger photos have the stamp of… Read More

THE QUR'AM [Koran] MANUSCRIPTS IN THE AL-HARAM AL-SHARIF ISLAMIC MUSEUM, JERSUALEM by Khader Salameh, published by Garnet Publishing with UNESCO Publishing, 2001, first edition (stated), hardcover with jacket, 9" x 12", ix + 206 pages, color photographs, notes, bibliography, index /// CONDITION: book and jacket, like new, unused tight copy.