[EARLY NAVAL GUIDE TO THE MEDITERRANEAN SHORES AND THE ARCHIPELAGO FOR SEAFARERS AND MARINERS WITH COMPLETE MAPS] Rehber-i derya: Cezâyir-i Bahr-i Sefîdin... [i.e. A guide to sea: Including an account and guide to the Mediterranean and Aegean shores]

SÜLEYMAN FAIK PASHA, (Ottoman general and admiral, Naval historian), (1845-1909)., Mihran Matbaasi., Istanbul, [AH 1299] = 1882. [EARLY NAVAL GUIDE TO THE MEDITERRANEAN SHORES AND THE ARCHIPELAGO FOR SEAFARERS AND MARINERS WITH COMPLETE MAPS] Rehber-i derya: Sevâhil ve Cezâyir-i Bahr-i Sefîdin ta'rifatini havîdir. [i.e. A guide to sea: Including an account and guide to the Mediterranean and Aegean shores]. Contemporary handsome quarter leather binding raised four bands and gilt lettering to spine. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters. 171, [1] p., 15 folded maps. First and only edition of this early naval guide to the Mediterranean and Aegean Islands and shores prepared by the Ottoman Admiral Süleyman Faik. A comprehensive early printed guide to the Cezâyir-i Bahr-i Sefid [i.e. Ottoman Province of the Archipelago] including the descriptions of all islands in the Archipelago such as Patmos, Peraka, Paros, Delos, Ipsara, Acina, Sekino, Mikonos, Bozca