[WORLD HISTORY BY HADJI KHALIFA] Fezleke-i Kâtib Chelebi. [i.e. The report of Hadji Khalifa]. 2 volumes set

HADJI KHALIFA [HACI ABDULLAH HALIFE KÂTIP ÇELEBI], (Ottoman historian), (1609-1657)., Ceride-i Havadis Matbaasi., Istanbul, [AH 1286-1287] = [AD 1869-1870]. Original handsome 1/3 leather bdgs. with attractive decorations at spines. A chipped on the second, and a period label on the first volume's spines. Spines are not homogeneous in their artistic style. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 2 volumes set: (412 p.; 398 p.). Extremely rare first printed Turkish edition of this first-hand account with a compilation of period sources of 150 dynasties from 1000 AH to c. 1655, self-translated from Arabic by the author, of his Arabic work titled "Fadhlakat al-Tawarîh" [i.e. The report of history] with an addendum for the Ottoman readers by adding what he had seen since 1653. In the book, the events starting from 1592 are told in accordance with the classical Islamic historiography tradition, and short biographies of the viziers, scholars, sheikhs, poet