Salname-i Nezaret-i Hariciye, 1302 Hicri Senesi 1885

by Ottoman Ministry of Foreign Affairs

$1,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

With 12 plates; an Ottoman imperial coat of arms gilt within the text. 4, 630, 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Later black cloth binding. Very good. Özege 6934. Item #372025 The almanac opens with a tughra of Sultan Abdulhamid II and includes an Islamic calendar with sunrise and sunset times. There are extracts from Ottoman government documents, such as a 1258 A.H. C.E. 1842 relation regarding the appointment of Mehmed Emin Rauf Pasha as Grand Vizier to

• Binding: Hardcover

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