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Résumé :
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Black & White photographs, architectural plans, elevations and cross-sections throughout (some folding). 4to, cloth. EX-LIBRARY with the usual markings and sunned covers, internally a clean, bright text and plates. An exhaustive study of the distinctive architecture of the Muslim people of the Swahili coast, giving an account not only of the buildings of this civilization at its height before the 16th century, but also tracing the later development of the architecture down to the middle of the 19th century - the construction techniques, materials, structures, ornamentation, mihrabs, in mosques, and domestic buildings. It covers virtually all known remains from Mogadishu to the southern border of Tanzania.
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