Lot 17•
2 April 2009, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,800 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistAl-Hakim Abdul Qadir bin Abdullah al-Fasir (compiler), Kitab Sir al-Asrar fi Ma'rifat Sana'at al-Kimiya' wa al-ahjar, a treatise on alchemy, copied by Abdul Qadir bin Abi al-Qasim bin Abdullah al-Husaini al-Iraqi
written at Fez, Morocco, dated AH 1259/AD 1843
written at Fez, Morocco, dated AH 1259/AD 1843
Arabic manuscript on paper, 73 leaves, 25 lines to the page written in disciplined maghribi script in brown ink, significant words and title picked out in red ink, catchwords and occasional commentaries in wide outer borders, modern brown leather with stamped central medallions, spine and edges worn, 227 x 172 mm.; and Al-Kashf al-Ani 'an ilm al-Kimiya wa ma'rifat al-hajar al-rabbani, compiled by Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Abdullah al-Harrani, Arabic manuscript on alchemy
227 x 167 mm.(2)
227 x 167 mm.(2)