GABRIEL, Albert (1883-1972). Une Capitale Turque: Brousse Bursa. Paris: E. de Boccard, 1958. 2 vols., 4° (380 x 276mm), 109 plates including bis plates 21, 26 and 29, 10 plates at end coloured and mounted, map of Bursa, unbound as issued. Contemporary cloth-backed boards and cloth-backed portfolio (lightly soiled).
Gabriel's monograph on Bursa, the Turkish town second only to Istanbul for its wealth of monuments, was based on research begun in 1926 and continued up to 1940 'à un rythme variable'; young Turkish architects helped complete it after the war. The coloured plates are of the Green Mosque. (2)
GABRIEL, Albert (1883-1972). Une Capitale Turque: Brousse Bursa. Paris: E. de Boccard, 1958. 2 vols., 4° (380 x 276mm), 109 plates including bis plates 21, 26 and 29, 10 plates at end coloured and mounted, map of Bursa, unbound as issued. Contemporary cloth-backed boards and cloth-backed portfolio (lightly soiled).
Gabriel's monograph on Bursa, the Turkish town second only to Istanbul for its wealth of monuments, was based on research begun in 1926 and continued up to 1940 'à un rythme variable'; young Turkish architects helped complete it after the war. The coloured plates are of the Green Mosque. (2)
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