Sales catalogue: Stevens

Date:
29-30 January 1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/21/579
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Stevens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    601 602 29 Second Day An early Arabian MS., consisting of several treatises on Mohammedan arts and sciences : Ditto, an album of caligraphy, consisting of 23 panels with illuminated borders A Persian MS., finely uluminated throughout, shagreen binding Ditto, consisting of 36 leaves of silk paper, dealing with Alexander the Great Ditto, with one illuminated frontispiece, in silk brocade binding An Arabic-Persian-Turkish Lexicon, in 4 vols., Vienne, 1780 Three illuminated marriage deeds of contract, also 8 paintings and early Mohammedan charm tablets An antique hurling stone, with silver-mounted handle, a Saracenic bowl, a dictionary of practical medicine, in 3 vols., also Dictionnaire Medical et Therapeutique A Persian MS., a charm used by the Persians, and a collection of Indian bracelets, finger-rings, etc. Persian book Angelica Summa, published in England in 1492, printed an double column, old Latin with illuminated title letters (complete but not in original binding) Psalms of David, illuminated, by Owen Jones, with impressed leather cover Pharmacologia and Materiam Medicani, by Dr. Dale, 1718 Folio vol. on Anatomy, with numerous fine plates, 1740 Medicinne Kationalis, by Dr. Hoffman, portrait, 2 parts in 1 vol., published 1720 Medical vol., by Dr. Sydenham, with portrait, 1741 Another Property. Travels—La Finlande par Galitzin, Parys, 1852, 2 vols., with plates and map Whaling—Notice sur la Baleine par Kessels, Paris, 1829, Svo, original wrappers
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