1909 Ottoman Mehmet Eşref Maps of the World in Hemispheres

This is a pair of 1909 Turkish Eastern and Western Hemisphere maps, produced by the educator and publisher Mehmet Eşref. Together they comprise one of the few Turkish maps of the world available to the collector. All titles and descriptive text are in Ottoman Turkish. National borders are not shown, but large geographical features - the Great Lakes, the Mississippi River, the Amazon and the Nile do appear. Antarctica is shown in a tentative fashion. Chromolithograph.

Publication History and Census

Turkish atlas maps are rare on the market. This one was published in Eşref’s Umum-i vilayat-ı Şahaneyi havi küçük atlas/( اطالس كوچك حاوى يى شهان ى والياة عموم), of which OCLC lists only a single copy at the Bogazici University Library in Istanbul.