SET OF NINE BOOKS North Africa, 18th and 19th centuries Arabic manuscripts on paper, comprising: a philology textbook by Ibn Hisham al-Ansari (d. 1360), signed and dated jumada I 1236 H/1821; volume 3 of a work by al-Nafrawi (d. 1712), incomplete in a marbled paper binding; an acephalous manuscript, dated jumada II 1231 H/1816, signed Sa'd b. Mubarak of Toujan (Tunisia), in a hardback binding; a commentary on arithmetic entitled Kashf al-hijab li-l asfiya wa al-[?] fi ma'rifat al-riyad wa al-hisab probably by al-Rasmuki (d. 1638), dated 21 Shawwal 1294 AH/1877, signed, in a yellow hardback binding; a work on religious marriage, copied in Tunis by Mustafa b. al-Rahman, dated AH 1121 / 1709-10 or AH 1131 / 1718-19, in its brown morocco binding; a work on religious marriage, in a modern red binding; a second work on religious marriage, signed and dated AH 1196 / 1781, in a modern pink hardback binding; two volumes of a work on fiqh, dated AH 1283 / 1866, in black leather bindings; most in fragile condition. Nine Religious Manuscripts, North Africa, 18th and 19th Century