[JERUSALEM / MIDDLE EAST] Tarih-i fezâil ve Quds-i Serîf. [i.e. History of the virtues and the Great and the Noble Jerusalem]. Prep. by Muhammed Recai

MOLLA HIFZÎ, (17th Century), Darü't-Tıbaatü'l-Âmîre, Istanbul (Constantinople), [AH 1265] = 1849. Contemporary cloth, marbled boards. Slight chippings on the panels' extremities, fading on board, and slightly stained front pastedown, overall a very good copy. Demy 8vo. (21 x 15 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic script). 101 p. Framed text.First printed edition of this extremely rare description and account of Jerusalem narrated through the earliest Islamic, Jewish, and Christian legends and sources by a 17th-century Islamic scholar. As stated in the preface of the book, the author came to Jerusalem in 1635 [AH 1051] and wrote this book based on his own observations in first-hand style for three years, gathered from the scholars and saints, from the oldest Arabic sources written in the Jerusalem where he came as a "contiguous" [Tr. mücâvî] and an observer. This early Islamic work offers an invaluable insight into the early Jewish culture of the region in and around Jerusal