Sarre, Friedrich & Trenkwald, Hermann. Alt-Orientalische Teppiche. Vienna and Leipzig, Hiersemann and Schroll, 1926–1928, 1st ed., Imperial folio (60 x 45cm), 2 vols., 21, 43 pp., 120 plates (67 of which in full colour partly, some plates coloured double-page), each plate with a descriptive text leaf on the opposite side. Original navy blue buckram with gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Pages and plates are clean and bright, binding firm, covers overall very good, no discolouration. Lacks plate No. 7 in Vol. i, and a descriptive text leaf to plate No. 23 in Vol. ii. First and only edition of 'the most important recent publication with wonderful reproductions of the best-known carpets' (Ettinghausen 1936). From The Saeed Motamed Collection.