[FIRST MAP OF JAPAN / FIRST PRINTED EDITION OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST MUSLIM MAPPAMONDOS / FIRST DICTIONARIES OF THE TURKIC LANGUAGES] Divân-i lûgâti’t-Türk [i.e., The compendium of the languages of the Turks]. Edited by Ali Emirî

AL-KASHGÂRÎ, MAHMUD IBN HUSAYN IBN MUHAMMAD (known as Al-Kashgârî) (1008-1102), Matbaa-yi Âmîre, Istanbul, AH 1333-1335 [1917-1919]. In publisher’s original dark green cloth including three volumes in one as issued. Light brown cloth spine on which has no lettering. Housed in a separate modern dark brown full leather box. Large roy. 8vo. (25 x 18 cm). In Arabic and Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 3 volumes set: (436, 12 p., 319, [1] p., 351 p.), one folded chromolithograph map in the first volume (40 x 28 cm). This sixfold map is folded originally between 28-29 pages of the book. Skillful restoration on the lower right of the front board, contemporary blue free endpapers, and occasional foxing on covers. Otherwise, a very good copy.  Extremely rare first printed edition of this first comprehensive Arabic dictionary of Turkic languages edited and published lately by ex-treasurer of Aleppo Ali Emiri (1857-1924), compiled originally in 1072-74 in Baghdad by Mahmud Kashga