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1732 · réf. 000109 — The first page of the preface and the final page of the index are in facsimile; otherwise complete. The volume includes 40 original maps and diagrams preserved in mint condition with wide and complete margins. It comprises 698 pages of Ottoman Turkish text printed by İbrahim Müteferrika in 1145 AH 1732 AD. Bound in later hard covers. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF THE JIHANNUMA. Planned as a great cosmosgraphy the work was never completed although Katib Celebi wrote two versions. The text contained here is the second version rewritten after the author had acquired a Mercator-Hondius Atlas minor Koemans mistakenly considered the Jihannuma a translation into Turkish of that Atlas. It covers the world from Japan to the Ottoman borders and is well-illustrated with engraved maps including: the World in twin hemispheres the World in oval projection Europe Africa Asia America the North and South Poles Arabia Japan and various other parts of Asia and Asia Minor. Several of the maps and diagrams had appeared in earlier books printed by Mteferrika. The author born Mustafa ibn Abd Allah at Constantinople in 1609 was a prolific scholar historian geographer and bibliophile. Another of his works Tuhfet l-Kibar fi esfar il bihar was published only 4 years earlier at the same press and was the first geographical work to be printed in Turkey. Mteferrika added to the Jihannuma a section concerning the ideas of Copernicus and Tycho Brahe. Koemans II 549 cites 37 plates; Toderini p.114ff. cites 39; and copies are known with 41. Christies note. Ibrahim Muteferrika hardcover