![MAHMOUD RAIF (fl.1793-1809). Tableaux des Nouveaux Reglemens de l' Empire Ottoman, Constantinople: "Imprimé dans la nouvelle Imprimerie du Génie, sous la direction d' Abdurrahman Efèndi professeur de Géometrie et d' Algébre", 1798. 2° (319 x 210mm). Title and text within interlacing woodcut border throughout, 27 engraved and etched plates and plans, 16 double-page, one folding. (Some very light mainly marginal staining.) Contemporary mottled sheep, covers with double rule in blind, spine decorated in gilt (corners rubbed, some scuffing, a little bowed). Provenance: Mark Dineley (armorial bookplate) -- A. Hennique 1886 (bookplate) -- G. J. Arvanitidi (ex-libris sticker) -- early one-page note in French [?by Arvanitidi] inserted at end -- old pencil annotation on front free endpapers.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2004/CSK/2004_CSK_09834_0121_000(075507).jpg?w=1)
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MAHMOUD RAIF (fl.1793-1809). Tableaux des Nouveaux Reglemens de l' Empire Ottoman, Constantinople: "Imprimé dans la nouvelle Imprimerie du Génie, sous la direction d' Abdurrahman Efèndi professeur de Géometrie et d' Algébre", 1798. 2° (319 x 210mm). Title and text within interlacing woodcut border throughout, 27 engraved and etched plates and plans, 16 double-page, one folding. (Some very light mainly marginal staining.) Contemporary mottled sheep, covers with double rule in blind, spine decorated in gilt (corners rubbed, some scuffing, a little bowed). Provenance: Mark Dineley (armorial bookplate) -- A. Hennique 1886 (bookplate) -- G. J. Arvanitidi (ex-libris sticker) -- early one-page note in French [?by Arvanitidi] inserted at end -- old pencil annotation on front free endpapers.
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of the first work printed at the second Turkish Press. Blackmer: "A rare and interesting work outlining the military reforms and the regulations for the New Troops established by Selim III in 1796-7." The author, Mahmoud Raif, was a leading exponent of reform in Turkey who, like Selim III, attempted to change the traditional political structures of the Ottoman Empire and replace them with a political system based on Western models, and more particularly on post-revolution France. These reforms - the subject of the present work - eventually led to the author's and Selim III's murder. Atabey 752; Blackmer 1060.
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of the first work printed at the second Turkish Press. Blackmer: "A rare and interesting work outlining the military reforms and the regulations for the New Troops established by Selim III in 1796-7." The author, Mahmoud Raif, was a leading exponent of reform in Turkey who, like Selim III, attempted to change the traditional political structures of the Ottoman Empire and replace them with a political system based on Western models, and more particularly on post-revolution France. These reforms - the subject of the present work - eventually led to the author's and Selim III's murder. Atabey 752; Blackmer 1060.
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