Atlas

1910 · ABC_47241 — Ottoman Empire 1910. Gold-stamped cloth with the tughra of Mehmed V ruled 1908-18 on the front board when reading right to left and "Album" on the back board the front when reading left to right with an inscription below the tughra and the European numerals “16” and “2” flanking an ornament below the inscription the whole framed by 4 large floral cornerpieces. Oblong 4to 26.5 x 19.5 cm. 14 leaves with 10 pen-and-ink maps hand coloured with watercolours. Tissue guards. An album of hand-drawn maps forming an atlas of the western mostly European parts of the Ottoman Empire with legends in Ottoman Turkish written in the Arabic script. The overview map shows Albania Kosovo Macedonia and the Ottoman controlled northern parts of Greece coloured together with Thrace and the northwest parts of Anatolia shown treating them as a single unit while Serbia and Bulgaria like the small parts of territories outside Ottoman control are coloured separately. Most of the other maps give more detailed views of some of these regions including the Bosporus the Dardanelles Halkidiki Chalcidice Albania etc. but there is also a map of Crete not in the overview map.In fine condition. hardcover