AFRICA: يكى آفريقا. آفريقا قطعه سنك احوال جفرافيه و تاريخيه سى حقنده معلومات جديده ايله سياح مشهور استانلى نك صوك آفريقا سياحتنامه سنى و اوچ قطعه بويالى خريطه يى حاويدر

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AFRICA: يكى آفريقا. آفريقا قطعه سنك احوال جفرافيه و تاريخيه سى حقنده معلومات جديده ايله سياح مشهور استانلى نك صوك آفريقا سياحتنامه سنى و اوچ قطعه بويالى خريطه يى حاويدر

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Yeni Afrika. Afrika kitʼasinin ahval-i coğrafya ve tarihiyesi hakkında maʼlûmat-ı cedide ile seyyah-i meşhur İstanliʼnin son Afrika seyahatnamesini ve üç kitʼa boyalı haritayı havidir

New Africa. Geographical and Historical Situation of African Continent, New Information by a Famous Traveler Stanley and a Map Coloured in three Colours.

 

A rare late 19th century Ottoman book on contemporary Africa

 

8°, 235 pp., [5 pp.] errata and index, folding map of African continent (uncoloured), original brown cloth boards with goat spine (little age-toned with light foxing, old book-seller’s stamp on title page-verso, spine rubbed with a small piece of material missing in the upper part, a small tear in first blank page).

 

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Mehmed İZZET.

يكى آفريقا. آفريقا قطعه سنك احوال جفرافيه و تاريخيه سى حقنده معلومات جديده ايله سياح مشهور استانلى نك صوك آفريقا سياحتنامه سنى و اوچ قطعه بويالى خريطه يى حاويدر
[Yeni Afrika. Afrika kitʼasinin ahval-i coğrafya ve tarihiyesi hakkında maʼlûmat-ı cedide ile seyyah-i meşhur İstanliʼnin son Afrika seyahatnamesini ve üç kitʼa boyalı haritayı havidir

New Africa. Geographical and Historical Situation of African Continent, New Information by a Famous Traveler Stanley and a Map Coloured in three Colours.]

Istanbul: İstepan Matbaası1308 [1891].

 

 

The chapters describe various regions and subject, such as current political situation in Africa, Egypt, Eastern Sudan, Somalia, Zanzibar, German colonies, English colonies, Mozambique, Zulu people, Transvaal, Angola, Congo, French colonies, the Sahara, Central Sudan, Colonial West Africa, sea of Algeria etc.

The last chapter (pp. 158ff) is a translation of a part of a African travelogue by Henry Morton Stanley.

The bibliography of Ottoman books (Özege) wrongly attributes the whole text to the orientalist Stanley Lane-Pole (1854 – 1931), possibly misinterpreting the name Stanley in the title and last chapter, and incorrectly quotes Mehmed İzzet as a translator.
Mehmed İzzet authored several books on geography and other subjects for education of children and adults in the late Ottoman Empire.

We locate four examples in Worldcat: McGill University Library, Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Leiden University Libraries and Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, also wrongly quoting Stanley Lane-Pole as an author).

References: OCLC 66929451, 1196293204; ÖZEGE; 22971.

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