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Turkey; description and travel.

Text includes background on: early mapmaking; the history of the Book of Cihannuma; the printer Ibrahim Müteferrika's influence on the development of Turkish printing (with an annotated bibliography of the 1st 17 books of his output [p. 20-22] and a bibliography of works about him [p. 26-27]), as well as his pivotal role as scholar/printer of this work; a background on the history of Ottoman geography and astronomy; and the complete text in miniature facsimile pages, accompanied by commentary from original and current scholars.

Holygrounds; Turkey; voyages and travels; guidebooks.