"EARLY 19TH CENTURY OTTOMAN TURKISH MILITARY HAND ILLUSTRATE...

Estimate

£4,000 - £6,000

"EARLY 19TH CENTURY
OTTOMAN TURKISH MILITARY HAND ILLUSTRATED, STONE PRINTED BOOK,
ASAKIR-I MANSUREYI MUHAMMEDIYE TALIM (TRAINING) BOOK,
124AD/1829AD
CONSTANTINOPLE, ISTANBUL"

Turkish book on litho paper, 214 pages plus 18 litograph maps,23 lines of black naskh script,gold wine leaves between some sentences, stylised crescent moon and star ornaments, text outlined with thin and thick gold rules outlined with black, incipit with artisan illumination in polychrome and gold, with tughra of Bayazid the second at the top, Brown Ottoman leather binding with flap, double line tooled gold borders, ottoman tughra stamped on gold ovidal shape in the centre,

Published at Talimhane-i Amire