Lamu : manuscript, 1975, 2006.

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Lamu : manuscript, 1975, 2006.

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Narrative of the author's visit to the island of Lamu off the coast of Kenya, in company with Philip Hofer, including a description of the Muslim festival of Mawlid al-Nabì„.

1 v. (35 p.) : ill. ; 28 cm.

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Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984

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Philip Hofer (1898-1984) was a librarian, book collector, and founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library at Harvard University. Hofer graduated from Harvard College and spent a few years in business. He began collecting a wide variety of printed books in 1917. By 1933 he focused on illustrated and decorated books, thus entering into a serious study of book arts. He served as curator of the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library, and in...

Heckscher, Philip Hofer

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Chorbachi, Wasma'a Khalid,

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