COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Hafız Ali Eşref
Date:
1868
Short Title:
Title Page: Muqaddimah Mutarjim
Type:
Text Page
Obj Height cm:
33
Obj Width cm:
23
Note:
Introduction by Hafiz Ali.
Full Title:
(Text Page to) ) Yeni atlas = First atlas. Mülâzim-i evvel Hafız Ali Eşref. Baltarsim, Tash Ozrineh Tajumeh, Itemsadder. Paris. 1285 (1868).
List No:
13529.003
Series No:
2
Publication Author:
Hafız Ali Eşref
Pub Date:
1868
Pub Title:
Yeni atlas = First atlas. Mülâzim-i evvel Hafız Ali Eşref. Baltarsim, Tash ve Zerineh. Paris. 1285 (1868).
Pub Note:
First geographical atlas of the world. Compiled by Hafiz Ali Esref. Drawn by Tash Ozrineh. Translated to Turkish by Itemsadder. Containing 22 lithographed in color double page maps of the world as well as of the continents and of numerous countries. All pages printed with decorative borders. Printed in Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) and Kurdish scripts. Maps showing political and administrative boundaries, major cities, rivers lakes and mountains. Relief shown by hachures and shadings. Bound in orange paper cover boards, with brown leather embossed frame, with drawing of a Terrestrial Globe. The atlas has been cited in Worldcat as "Yeni Atlas" = New Atlas. "A handsome clean example of an exceedingly rare first Ottoman lithographed atlas, made by a pioneer of the Ottoman modern mapmaking, Ali Şeref Paşa in the time of his schooling in Paris. Ali later became the leading Ottoman governmental cartographer and is today known for his last, unfortunately unfinished gargantuan project of wall map of Anatolia in 100 sheets, based on the Kiepert’s map of the same region. This exceedingly rare atlas it the first atlas in Ottoman language printed in the technique of lithography. It was probably made in a limited amount, by Ali Şeref Paşa, at the end of the studies of cartography in Paris, where he was sent by the Ottoman government to learn the new western techniques of map-making and cartography. The atlas includes 22 decoratively drafted elegant and balanced maps of the World, continents, European countries and the Ottoman Empire, all lithographed in vivid colours and ornated with oriental patterns in margins. Ali Şeref Paşa – The Pioneer of the Modern Ottoman Cartography Ali Şeref Paşa (also known as Hafız Ali Eşref) was a soldier and map-maker, who was sent by the Ottoman government around 1862 to Paris, with a goal to learn the skills of the modern cartography and the technique of modern lithography in colour. In 1869, Ali, when still a student in Paris, published his first atlas. This work with 22 maps in folio format, lithographed in bright colours, with decorative Ottoman lettering, is the first modern Ottoman lithographed atlas and together with its printing technique a foundation for all the Ottoman atlases following. Upon his return to Istanbul, Ali Şeref Paşa became a chief cartographer at the Matbaa-i Amire, a printing press in Beyazit, which was the successor of the Müteferrika press from 1727. Ali introduced lithograph as a printing technique for cartographic sources to Istanbul and in the following years commissioned a series of maps in folio format, which were issued in another large format atlas ىگى جغرافىا آطلسى (Yeñi coġrafya aṭlası / The New Geographic Atlas), making his Paris-based knowledge available in the Ottoman Empire. Ali Şeref Paşa’s most famous late project was a 100 sheet map of Anatolia, which he based on the Heinrich Kiepert’s map of the same area. When Ali died in 1907, the project remained unfinished. Separate sheets of the wall map were sold and today scarcely appear on the market. We could find 2 institutional examples (Library of Congress and University of Chicago). References: OCLC 869856294." (Alexander Johnson and Dasa Pahor, 2020)
Pub List No:
13529.000
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Pub Maps:
22
Pub Height cm:
34
Pub Width cm:
24
Image No:
13529003.jp2
Authors:
Hafız Ali Eşref
