Ottoman Turkish treatise on geometry, published by the Imperial Engineering School in Scutari

Tamani, Hüseyn Rifqi. Imtihan ul-mühendisin.

€ 6,500.00

First edition of this Ottoman Turkish treatise on geometry, published by the Imperial Engineering School in Scutari (Istanbul): the official examination coursebook for the engineers of Sultan Sultan Selim III. Contains 88 problems with their practical applications and solutions; the folding plates at the end of the volume boast a total of 180 diagrams. Published just before the famous "Cedid Atlas", by the same press, and re-issued in 1844.

Binding rubbed, extremeties bumped, paper a little stained in places, but generally very good. OCLC lists only two copies, in the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Staatsbibliothek Berlin.

Provenance: 20th century Parisian private collection, kept in the family for several generations and dispersed in 2022.