[EARLY LITHOGRAPHS / THE FIRST PRINTED TURKISH BOOK ON ANTIDOTES / POISONS AND ANTIDOTES RECORDED DURING THE EXPEDITION OF YEMEN & HIJAZ IN 1849] پانزهیرنامه / Panzehirnâme. [i.e., The book of antidote potions]

MUSTAFA HAMI PASHA (1846-1878). Matbaa-i Âmire, Istanbul, AH 1271 = [1855 CE]. Modern cloth binding with marbled boards. Foolscap 8vo (18 x 12 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic script). 83 p. Text traditionally framed, with a highly decorative calligraphic head title set within an ornate heart-shaped border, featuring traditional flowers and a pair of scepters with intertwined snakes. Orthography includes 'haraka' (Arabic diacritics). Each chapter head is adorned with intricate floral designs and borders. This early lithographed book, styled like a manuscript with its 'kataba' (imprint), shows slight staining on some pages and minor chipping at the upper corners of two pages. Overall, a very good, clean copy. Lithographed edition. First and only edition of the first printed Turkish book on antidotes and poisons, written by Mirliva Mustafa Hâmi Pasha, one of the early Ottoman scientists, during the reign of Sultan Abdulmecid II. Hami Pasha served as a military physicist, b