Printed by Ibrahim Müteferrika

Ibn Zunbul, Ahmed ibn 'Ali / Ahmet Süheyli Efendi. Tarikh-i Misr-i cedid / Tarikh-i Misr-i al-kadim [A History of Modern and Ancient Egypt].

€ 18,000.00

The seventh book printed by Ibrahim Müteferrika: a history of Egypt from antiquity to early modern times, prepared by the Turkish scholar Ahmed Süheylî (1562?-1632). The modern section (bound first, as usual) is in fact an Ottoman Turkish translation of the chronicle of the Ottoman-Mamluk war of 1516/17, "Fath Misr" (Tarikh as-sultan Selim al-Utmani ma'a as-sultan Qansuh al-Ghawri) by Ibn Zunbul (d. 1574/75).

Handwritten ownership of the French diplomat Louis Lagarde (dated 1923 CE) to front flyleaf. Occasional light browning and fingerstains, but mostly an excellent copy on good, crisp paper.

Provenance: 1) collection of the French diplomate Louis Lagarde; 2) latterly in a Parisian private collection, kept in the family for several generations over the 20th century and dispersed in 2022