[MUTEFERRIKA, Ibrahim]. [SULEYMEN IZZI] - Lot 74

[MUTEFERRIKA, Ibrahim]. [SULEYMEN IZZI] Tarih-i Izzi (History of Izzi). Constantinople, Sulaiman Izzi [succ. of Ibrahim Muteferrika], 1199H. [1784]. 2 parts in 1 small folio volume. Continuous folios of [9] ff. (including dedication and index), 288 ff. settings in red, annotations in red ink on some pages and places. Brown morocco, blind-tinted decoration with roulette framing the boards, later title-piece with title in Latin letters, title in Arabic handwritten on the edge (binding worn, freckling up to folio 60, wetness on some pages towards the end of the work, tiny marginal wormholes on qq leaves). First edition of this Chronicle of the Ottoman Empire in Arabic characters, printed in 18th-century Istanbul in its original Turkish binding. The history covers events from 1744 to 1751. Printed in the third establishment of the Muteferrika printing house by Suleyman Izzi, the official historian of the Ottoman state in 1745 after Mehmed Subhi. Old or modern handwritten annotations on the flyleaf before the title.