[BRITISH INDIA / MIDDLE EAST] Seyahat jurnali: Istanbul'dan Bagdat'a ve Hindistan'a sene 1300 ilâ 1304. Musavver. [i.e. The illustrated narrative of a journey from Constantinople to Bagdad and India]

DIREKTOR ALI BEY, (1844-1899), Rauf Bey Kütüphanesi Sahibi Mustafa Rauf / A. Artin Asaduryan Matbaasi, Istanbul, [AH 1314] = 1896. Contemporary handsome petrol green quarter leather, five raised bands to spine with decorative gilt edges, marbled boards. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters. 118 p., 14 unnumbered woodcut plates (one is full of two pages). Hegira: 1314 = Gregorian: 1896. Extremely rare first and illustrated edition of the journey of civil servant Ali Bey, who went from Istanbul to Baghdad and to India through his duty in Düyûn-u Umûmiye [i.e. Ottoman Public Debt Administration] covering the years 1885-1888, vividly describing Baghdad, Musul; and India. In 1884 Ali Bey started his journey as an ex-governor of Trabzon city and a new OPDA officer from Constantinople (Istanbul), and he arrived in Baghdad through Lesbos, Ayvalik, Smyrna (Izmir), Mersin, and Alexandretta (Iskenderun). On their way to Baghdad, they cross the Tigris River on