4to. vii, 433-877 pp., double column per page, contemporary green cloth, edges rubbed, lower & upper corners of spine slightly damaged, library book plates on front endpaper, copy clean inside and in good condition, The Trustees of The British Museum, London, first edition, 1881.

Synopsis

Contents of this volume: A description of 1128 Persian manuscripts collected by the British Library up to 1876. Contents: Notice. Contents of the Second Volume: Sciences – Encyclopaedias – Philosophy – Ethics – Politics – Mathematics – Astronomy – Natural History – Medicine – Farriery & Falconry – Alchemy & Cabalistic – Arts & Games. Philiology – Lexicography – Persian Dictionaries – Arabic-Persian Dictionaries – Turki-Persian Dictionaries – Persian-Turkish Dictionaries – Miscellaneous Dictionaries. Grammar – Persian Grammar – Arabic Grammar. Prosody. Insha, or the Art of Composition. Treatises on Caligraphy. Poetry – Anthologies. Ornate Prose. Fables, Tales & Anecdotes. Proverbs. Collectanea. Bibliography. Drawings & Specimens of Calligraphy. Manuscripts of Mixed Contents