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[Turkey]. AL JAWHARI İsmâil b. Hammâd / [VANCOULI] (trans.) / [MUTEFERRIKA, Ibrahim] (ed.) Tercume-i Sihah el Cevheri [Translation of Kitab Sihah al Jawhari] printed by Ibrahim Muteferrika by Muhammad bin Shaykh Muslih Muhammed al Vani (d. 1000 AH - 1592 AD). Constantinople, Dar el-Tiba'a al-Ma'moura [Ibrahim Muteferrika], 1169-1170 AH = [1756-1757]. 2 volumes in-folio (approx. 31 x 22 cm), [6] ff. dedication, a document entitled "Suret-i Emr-i Şerif-i Âlîşân" concerning the printing of the Lugat, index to first and second volumes, 372 ff. + 430 ff. Ottoman tan morocco with flap, smooth spine, paper title-piece, marbled paper boards and framed with a cold roulette, handwritten Arabic tomation on tail edges (worn binding). Very rare second edition of the first work printed by a Muslim and the first Islamic book printed in the Middle East. In its original Ottoman binding. This is the Ottoman Turkish translation of Abū Naṣr Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥammād al-Jawharī's Kitāb al-Ṣiḥāḥ (d. AH 393 / AD 1003). Important and famous 18th-century Arabic-Turkish dictionary in two volumes, the work of Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥammād al-Jawharī, translated into Ottoman Turkish by Vankulu Mehmet Efendi, also known as Vânkuli. The year of printing is given as 1169 H. in the colophon and 1170 in the dedication page of this tome. The dedication page was printed one year after the book was completed. The second volume is dated 1170 H. on the colophon. The original edition was published in 1141 H., 1728 AD. Old notes in Turkish on the upper flyleaf of volume I. Paris bookseller's label "Benjamin Dupart Libraire de l'Institut de la Bibliothèque impériale, etc." (upper flyleaf of both volumes). A few copies can be found in the collections of Turkish institutions. ASTRONOMIE. GNOMONIE. LEVANT.