Avicenna, the Prince of Physicians, was one of the most precocious and towering personalities of the Islamic world. Reciting the Koran by heart at age ten, he was appointed physician to the Emir of Bokhara at age seventeen. His great Canon was a…
Qing dynasty, the 32nd year of Guangxu (1906)
Manuscript, ink on paper, illustrations, 13.2x 8.3 in. (33.7× 21.2 cm)
19 volumes in 4 cases
An illustrated manuscript set of the “Four Classics” of the Confucian core value and belief systems: 《論語》…
"Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) wrote the book in part as a reaction to Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the French Revolution, published in late 1790. Burke saw the French Revolution as a movement which would inevitably fail, as society needed traditional…
Work is bound with Quaestiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum. Honnold/Mudd Oxford collection copy has contemporary leather binding with metal bosses, blind tooling, and ms. inscription inside of boards.