Kitabhane-yi Sudi Bookshop (كتابخانه سودى،)
Kitabhane-yi Sudi Bookshop (كتابخانه سودى،; fl. c. 1918 - 1928), also transliterated as Kitaphane-yi Sûdî, was a producer and purveyor of large-format maps based in Istanbul during the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic.
AKA: كتابخانه سودى،
Among the last maps to use the Ottoman Perso-Arabic script.
ينى امريكا / [New America].
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A large-format separately issued 1927 Ottoman map of North and Central America published by the Aladdin Matba-sı Printing House for the Kitabhane-yi Sudi Bookshop. Aside from its aesthetic qualities, this map is important for its role in the diffusion of knowledge about the Americas in Turkey as well as being among the last maps published in Ottoman Perso-Arabic script, before Turkey adopted a Latin-based script in 1928. (more details)