Lot 05138

‘MAHMUD RAIF EFENDI. Very RARE Ottoman printed map of Asia Minor, Greece, Aegean & Crete, from the CEDID ATLAS TERCUMESI, the first published atlas in the Muslim World, publ. in Istanbul in 1803. Title, scale & place names in Ottoman Turkish. The atlas is an Ottoman translation of William Faden”s “General Atlas” 1797 and was produced during the European model reforms introduced by Sultan Selim III. The plates were made in Vienna ΣΥΝΕΧΙΖΕΤΑΙ’