[EARLY COLLECTION OF POEMS / BULAQ IMRPINT] Dîwân-i Vehbi. [i.e. Vehbi's poems]

[EARLY COLLECTION OF POEMS / BULAQ IMRPINT] Dîwân-i Vehbi. [i.e. Vehbi's poems]

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SÜNBÜLZÂDE VEHBI, (Ottoman diwan poet), (1718-1809), Bulaq Printing House / Matba'at Sâhib al-Sa'âdah al-Abadîyah, Bulak, Egypt, [AH 1253] = 1837. Contemporary quarter brown leather. Marbled boards. The title of the book is written at the bottom of the pages. Small 4to. (26 x 17 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 20, [1 blank page], 17, [2 blank pages], 43, [2 blank pages], 131, [2 blank pages], 16, [1 blank page], 97, 61, [3 blank pages] p. Fading and foxing on some pages and edges. Slight chippings on the boards' extremities. The front pastedown and the first blank page are glued. Overall a fresh copy in near fine condition.First edition of this remarkable collection of Vehbi's poems in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish including his "Lotfiyyah", posthumously printed in Bulaq Printing House, as an early Bulaq imprint, presented to Sultan Selim III, written under his patronage in Istanbul, besides other important Ottoman statesmen and clerics in the 18th century such

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