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Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
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  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
  • Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar
Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar

Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas 1909 Rare Ottoman Atlas by Mehmed Eşref Qatar

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Mehmed Eşref – Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas (Pocket Atlas) – Şirket-i Mürettibiye Matbaası Istanbul Edition (1325 AH / 1909)

Description 

This is the 1325 AH (approximately 1909 CE) Istanbul edition of Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas prepared by Mehmed Eşref and printed by Şirket-i Mürettibiye Matbaası. Written in Ottoman Turkish and featuring detailed color lithographic maps, this important educational atlas was produced during the Second Constitutional Era as part of the Ottoman Empire’s efforts to modernize geography education in rüşdiye (middle school) and idadi (high school) institutions.

The atlas was specifically designed in accordance with contemporary educational curricula and aimed to provide students with both a comprehensive understanding of the Ottoman provinces and a broader knowledge of world geography. Structurally, the work generally consists of a 32-page statistical and descriptive text section followed by a series of color lithographic maps prepared with considerable technical precision.

Its author, Mehmed Eşref Bey, was among the most productive military cartographers and educational reformers of the late Ottoman period. He is regarded as one of the pioneering figures responsible for preparing some of the earliest modern and locally produced Ottoman history and geography atlases. His works played an important role in shaping geography education during the empire’s final decades.

The year of publication, 1909, is historically significant because it represents one of the final relatively stable years before the Ottoman Empire experienced catastrophic territorial losses during the Italo-Turkish War (1911) and the Balkan Wars (1912–1913). As a result, the atlas officially records many Ottoman territories in the Balkans and North Africa shortly before they were permanently lost. Regions shown in these maps would disappear from Ottoman administration only a few years later, making the atlas one of the final cartographic documents preserving the empire’s late territorial structure.

In accordance with its title, which translates roughly as “Small Atlas Containing All Imperial Ottoman Provinces,” the work provides extensive coverage of Ottoman administrative geography. The maps include Avrupa-yı Osmânî (Ottoman Europe), featuring Macedonia, Kosovo, Manastır, Selanik, Yanya, İşkodra, and the Edirne region; Asya-yı Osmânî (Ottoman Asia), including Istanbul, Hüdavendigar (Bursa), Aydın, Ankara, Konya, Trabzon, Sivas, Erzurum, Diyarbekir, Van, Bitlis, Adana, Halep, Syria, Beirut, the Hejaz, Yemen, Jerusalem, and Baghdad; and Afrika-yı Osmânî, covering Trablusgarp and Benghazi in present-day Libya.

Alongside the Ottoman provincial maps, the atlas also contains world geography maps intended to introduce students to global political and physical geography. These include Eastern and Western Hemisphere maps, continental maps of Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania, as well as maps showing the borders of major contemporary powers such as Britain, France, Russia, Germany, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The atlas therefore functions not only as an educational schoolbook but also as a historical document reflecting late Ottoman administrative geography, educational modernization, and geopolitical awareness during the final years of the empire.

This particular copy retains all maps complete and original. The book is bound in hardcover format; however, the pages and map sections have become detached from the binding, as visible in the photographs.

Key Features

• Title: Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvî Küçük Atlas

• Author: Mehmed Eşref

• Publisher: Şirket-i Mürettibiye Matbaası

• Publication Date: 1325 AH (approximately 1909 CE)

• Publication Place: Istanbul

• Language: Ottoman Turkish

• Format: Hardcover Educational Atlas

• Structure: 32-page statistical/text section with color lithographic maps

• Printing Technique: Color lithographic printing

• Educational Purpose: Prepared for geography education in Ottoman rüşdiye and idadi schools

• Ottoman Geographic Coverage: Europe; Anatolia; Middle East; Hejaz; North Africa

• Balkan Regions Included: Macedonia; Kosovo; Manastır; Selanik; Yanya; İşkodra; Edirne

• Middle Eastern Regions Included: Syria; Beirut; Jerusalem; Baghdad; Yemen; Hejaz

• African Territories Included: Trablusgarp and Benghazi

• World Geography Content: Hemisphere maps; Continental maps; Major world powers of the early 20th century

• Historical Importance: Documents Ottoman territorial borders immediately before the Balkan Wars and major territorial losses

• Educational Significance: One of the early modern Ottoman geography atlases prepared for state education

• Author Significance: Prepared by one of the pioneering Ottoman military cartographers and educational atlas creators

• Preservation Note: All maps are complete and original

• Binding Note: Hardcover binding present; pages and map sections are detached from the binding as visible in the photographs

• Collector Appeal: Rare late Ottoman educational and cartographic atlas documenting the empire’s final territorial structure

• Condition: Hardcover copy with detached pages and map sections; all maps complete and original; visible wear consistent with age 

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