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This hardback is also published in paperback under ISBN 978-90-04-44987-9 as Volume 12 in the series Leiden Studies in Islam and Society.
Cover Illustration: Pascal Sebah, Magasin d’antiquités, undated [c. 1881]. [The photograph represents the shop of antique dealer and cabinet-maker Gaspare Giuliana in Cairo]. Albumen print. 19.69 × 26.04 cm. Minneapolis Institute of Art, 82.57.71. Gift of Charles Herman.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the paperback edition as as follows:
Names: Volait, Mercedes, author.
Title: Antique dealing and creative reuse in Cairo and Damascus 1850–1890 : intercultural engagements with architecture and craft in the age of travel and reform / by Mercedes Volait.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] | Series: Leiden studies in Islam and society, 2210–8920 ; volume 12 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021010837 (print) | LCCN 2021010838 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004449879 (paperback) | ISBN 9789004449886 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Antiques business—Egypt—Cairo—History—19th century. | Antiques business—Syria—Damascus—History—19th century. | Islamic decorative arts—Collectors and collecting—History—19th century. | Antiques in interior decoration—History—19th century. | Salvage (Waste, etc.) in interior decoration—History—19th century. | Cultural property—Middle East. | Middle East—Antiquities. | Turkey—History—Tanzimat, 1839–1876.
Classification: LCC NK1133.28 .V65 2021 (print) | LCC NK1133.28 (ebook) | DDC 381/.457451096216—dc23
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