Kitab-I Mustatab-I Gangi-I Danis Kih Ganji Ahl-I Ninish ast.

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[28], 573 pp., [1], lithograph printing, cover lightly rubbed, remainder of label on upper cover, new endpapers, ink inscription on outer edge, otherwise copy inside in good condition. Hakim Muhammad Sharif Khan was a physician of some importance at end of 18th and beginning of 19th century. He was physician to the Mughal emperor Shah ?Alam II (ruled 1759-1806) and possibly to his son Akbar II (ruled 1806-1837). Sources differ as to when he died, some recording that he died in 1805/1220 and others that he died eleven years later in 1816/1231. He was responsible for introducing aspects of the new science current in Europe in his days, and he composed works in both Arabic and Persian, including a dictionary of Indian drugs. For his life and writings, see Storey PL II,2, pp. 283-5 no. 494; GAL-S, vol. 2, p. 864 no. 56a.#32910. N° de ref. del artículo 011948

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