Lot Essay
This work is arranged in four chapters (bab) and is a description of the world, countries and inhabitants.
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MOROCCO OR SAHARA, DATED 22 DHU AL-HIJJA AH 1297/25 NOVEMBER 1880 AD
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MUHAMMAD BIN ‘ABD AL-RAHMAN BIN SULAYMAN BIN AL-RABI’ AL-QAYSI AL-GHARNATI: TUHFAT AL-ABWAB
MOROCCO OR SAHARA, DATED 22 DHU AL-HIJJA AH 1297/25 NOVEMBER 1880 AD
On geography, Arabic manuscript on paper, 45ff. as numbered, each folio with 22ll. of black maghribi script verging on naskh script, titles in larger black script, with marginal illustrations such a minaret in Alexandria (illustrated), colophon dated, in north African stamped and gilt binding
Folio 9 1/8 x 6 ¾in. (23.1 x 17.3cm.)
MOROCCO OR SAHARA, DATED 22 DHU AL-HIJJA AH 1297/25 NOVEMBER 1880 AD
On geography, Arabic manuscript on paper, 45ff. as numbered, each folio with 22ll. of black maghribi script verging on naskh script, titles in larger black script, with marginal illustrations such a minaret in Alexandria (illustrated), colophon dated, in north African stamped and gilt binding
Folio 9 1/8 x 6 ¾in. (23.1 x 17.3cm.)
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