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ABU 'ALI AL-HUSAYN IBN 'ABDULLAH IBN SINA (AVICENNA) (D. AH 428/1037 AD): AL-QANUN FI AL-TIBB SIGNED HAFIZ ZUHUR ALLAH, INDIA, DATED AH 1204/1789-90 AD Comprising the first, second and fifth books of Avicenna's famous medical encyclopaedia, Arabic manuscript on paper, 317ff. as numbered plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 27ll. of neat black naskh , important words and phrases picked out in red, catchwords, text within blue and gold borders with blue outer rules, opening bifolio with illuminated headpiece and gold floral illuminated margins, preceded by a general index for all five books and a detailed index for the first book, one further illuminated headpiece within the text and one title without illumination, colophon at the end of the first and fifth book signed and dated AH 1204/1789-90 AD, in brown morocco with stamped medallions, maroon morocco doublures, final board loose Text panel 8 5/8 x 4 ½in. (21.8 x 11.3cm.); folio 10 7/8 x 6 ¾in. (27.7 x 17cm.)