3,200.00€
عثمان نورى [Osman Nuri, Sabık Coğrafya-yı Askeri Muavini Piyade Kol Ağası / Senior Chief Military Cartographer for the Infantry].
جغرافياى عسكرى و عثمانى درسلرينه مخصوص
سوريه قطعة سى
[Part of Syria for Specific Military and Ottoman Geographical Operations / Lessons]
Inset Map:
حجاز دميريولى كذركاهى
[Hicaz demiryolu güzergah / Route of the Hejaz Railway]
Istanbul: مكتب حربيه مطبعه سى [Maktaba Harbiye-yi Matbaası / War Office Press] 1327 [1911].
82 x 57 cm (32.3 x 22.4 inches) (slightly stained, repairs to the folds with old paper verso, small loss of paper in the horizontal fold in margins with a small loss of image).
An Ottoman wall-map, made by the War Office for educational purposes, showcases the Levant with an inset map of the eastern part of the Arabic Peninsula, marking the route of the Hejaz Railway.
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The cartographer Osman Nuri was an esteemed late Ottoman cartographer, who worked for the military office, yet not much is known about his life. In 1909 (1325) he made a wall map of the Arabian Peninsula and around this time a more common wall map of Anatolia (Anadolu haritası) (Osmanlı coğrafya literatürü tarihi. History of Geographical Literature during the Ottoman Period, 2000, nos. 282 and 433).
