Atlas based on Katib Celebi's Cihannuma [Universal Geography]

Bound in green velvet, this little book contains a series of fold-out maps of the world executed in watercolour. Interspersed between them are text pages whose contents are extracted from the first version of the Cihannuma, the famous but unfinished Turkish geography written in the mid-seventeenth c...

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Date(s) of creation: c 1850-1900 CE
Level: Item
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