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Scarce Ottoman Turkish world map

[Ottoman Turkish world map on a North Pole projection]

Istanbul, Mehmet Eşref, 1909. Umum-i Vilayat-ı Şahaneyi Havi Küçük Atlas. 135 x 85mm.
Stock #:  26637

£300.00

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A rare small-format Ottoman Turkish world map on a North Pole projection by Mehmet Esref. Below a diagram shows profiles of mountains and oceans alongside a Volcano. The sheet was published in Mehmet Eşref’s Umum-i Vilayat-ı Şahaneyi Havi Küçük Atlas, a small Ottoman educational atlas published in Istanbul in 1325 AH / 1909. Such maps are especially interesting as examples of late Ottoman geographical publishing, presenting modern world geography to an Ottoman readership shortly before the First World War. A single example of the atlas is listed in OCLC records, in the Bogazici University Library in Istanbul.

Condition:

A good example.

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