[IMPORTANT ISLAMIC ACCOUNT OF IRAN, INDIA AND THE CAUCASUS IN THE 15TH CENTURY] ترجمۀ روضة الصفا / Tercüme-i ravzatü's-safâ [i.e., The garden of purity]. Translated into Ottoman Turkish by [Dervis Laubali] Balatîzâde Mehmed Kemalî. Prep. by Mehmed Nailî

B. HANDSÂH, MIRHUND MUHAMMED [= MUHAMMAD IBN HONDSAH IBN MAHMUD MIRHOND], (1433-1498). Takvimhâne-i Âmire, Istanbul, AH 1258 = [1842]. Contemporary quarter red calf. Gilt lettering title to spine. Front and rear boards are not homogeneous (front boards is leather with decoration embossed on the centre, rear board is full cloth). 4to. (30 x 21 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). Text with marginalia. [4], 396 p. Occasional foxing on some pages. A very good copy, overall. First Ottoman Turkish edition of this important book describing the Caucasus, Transoxiana, Central Asia, Iran, and India, giving an invaluable insight into the socio-economy, policy, history, and geography of the 15th-century Islamic world, written by Mirkhond, one of the most important Persian chroniclers of Iran during the Timurid dynasty (1370-1507), under the patronage of Sultan Husayn Bayqara. “[It] contains the Moslem version of our Bible stories, beginning with the creation of Genii before A