SCHULZ (Philipp Walter), Die persisch-islamische Miniaturmalerei, Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1914. -2 volumes in-4, publisher's embossed burgundy cloth. First edition of this reference work on Persian and Islamic miniatures. It is the work of Philipp Walter Schulz (1864-1920), the first German author to write on this subject, who acquired a large number of Persian works of art and ethnography during his travels in Persia. The work is divided into two volumes. The first, devoted to the text, includes several reproductions in the text and 17 plates of black reproductions. The second contains 200 plates of black reproductions, except for 4 in color (1, 14, 47 and 68). Unnumbered copy of the current edition. There are 20 copies on laid paper. Spines slightly faded. Discoloration on the first cover of the second volume. Stamp of Lucien Renard, "expert to the French courts and customs".