Diverse architectural traditions such as the Hindue and Jain temples, the step-wells and houses with intricately carved woodwork, are the subjects of separate chapters, each of which is generously illustrated with photographs and line drawings. Maps provide the locations of monuments within the city and its surrounding environment.
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Diverse architectural traditions such as the Hindue and Jain temples, the step-wells and houses with intricately carved woodwork, are the subjects of separate chapters, each of which is generously illustrated with photographs and line drawings. Maps provide the locations of monuments within the city and its surrounding environment.
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Seller's Description:
Good in Good jacket. Jacket spine is sunned and worn. Jacket is worn, particularly along edges. Lower back jacket cover corner has previous seller's price sticker. Inside edges are tanned, but otherwise clean and unmarked. An article from "India Today" (January1992) is inserted behind title page.
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VG-/VG-ownership bookplate on ffep, light foxing on title page, some light interior tanning to edges. moderate general wear to dust jacket. Tan cloth boards with olive lettering. Olive and color-photographic dust jacket with green lettering. iv, 187 pp. Mainly illustrations, some color. This book is devoted to the monuments of Ahmadabad, the premier city of Gujarat. With its many mosques and tombs dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Ahmadabad preserves some of the finest Indian Islamic buildings, though these are little know outside the region. The book includes such diverse architectural traditions as the Hindu and Jain temples, the step-wells, and houses with intricately carved woodwork. The book is generously illustrated with photographs and line drawings. Maps provide the locations of monuments within the city and its surrounding environment.
