MANUSCRIPT. [A Persian manuscript in two parts, the second part based on Abu Yahya Zakariyya al-Qazwini’s ‘Aja’ib al-Makhlukat’ (The Wonders of Creation). N.p.: Kashmir, circa 1820.] 164pp., manuscript, 8vo (241 x 114mm.) 2 parts, being 16pp. and 148pp. in calligraphic Nastaliq in black ink on vellum paper, 17 lines to a page with 2 large decorated headpieces in blue, red and gilt to the first section, and 17 lines to a page and also 205 water-colour and ink illustrations with gum arabic to the second part. (Browned to margins.) Original blind-stamped limp calf (extremities rubbed, some loss to base of spine). Note: al-Qazwini compiled ‘The Wonders of Creation’ in Arabic in the 13th century. It was an entire cosmography containing information about the heavens, the earth, minerals, plants, birds and animals as well as imaginary and hybrid creatures as illustrated here. Provenance: Alfred Hutton, soldier, writer, fencer and antiquarian (ink name to front and rear blanks). Hutton was serving with the British cavalry in India in the early 1860’s.