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[IMPERIAL ROYAL AUSTRIAN COMMERCIAL MUSEUM, VIENNA]. [Oriental Carpets]. [ca 1891].

2 volumes, 2o (700 x 485 mm). (Lacking title-page, some browning to a few text leaves.) Numerous plates, some with chromolithographed overlays. Loose as issued in later cloth portfolio (some minor soiling). Provenance: George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum (bookplates, library stamps); Springfield Museum Association (perforated stamp on a few leaves).

LIMITED EDITION, copy number 308 of an unspecified edition of the catalogue highlighting the most valuable carpets exhibited at the Vienna Commercial Museum in 1890.

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SARRE, Friedrich. Ancient Oriental Carpets ... Being a Supplement to the Oriental Carpets.... Leipzig: Karl W. Hierseman, 1908.

2o. Numerous plates (some in color). (Some occasional pale spotting.) Loose as issued in later cloth portfolio (some soiling). Provenance: George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum (bookplate, library stamps).

LIMITED EDITION, copy number 270 of an unspecified edition. (2)