[EXTREMELY RARE PERSIAN ATLAS OF IRAN PRINTED IN CONSTANTINOPLE] Atlas baghle Iran... [i.e., Atlas of complete Iran: Including 36 maps and one graphic...]

HOSSEIN (The owner of the Iqbal Publishing House in Istanbul), (Published and prepared by), Ikbal Kitabhânesi, Chaphâna-ye Abajoli, Istanbul, AH 1345 = 1926.

COMPLETE TITLE: اطلس بغلئ ايران: مرکب از ۳۶ پافته و يک غرافيک ميباشد (چاپ نخستين). معالومات مختصر از زراعت، صناعت، تجارت، اقتصاد، ماليه و نظام ممالک ايران [Atlas baghle Iran: Markab az 36 pafteh va yek grafik mi bashed (Chap-e Nakhastine). Maloumat-e mokhtasar az-ziraat, sanaat, tejarat, maliya ve nezam-e mamalik-e Irân]. [i.e., Atlas of Complete Iran: Including 36 maps and one graphic (The First Edition). [with] A brief information about Iran's agriculture, industry, trade, economy, and financial system].

Original full burgundy cloth with original purple endpapers. The title and publisher are lettered in gilt on the front board, with the period price ("Fiyati 125 gurush") on the rear board. Foolscap 8vo (18 x 10 cm). In Persian. 47 pages of text, followed by 36 [+1] chromolithographed maps on numbered double-page leaflets. There is an additional lithographed index map of Iran. Minor shelf wear on the front and rear boards, slightly faded endpapers, many maps loosely inserted into the binding, a small tear on the 32nd map. Overall, a very good, clean, and complete copy.

The first and only edition of this extremely rare and attractive pocket atlas of Qajar Iran, produced during the Pahlavi period, in the second year of the rule of Reza Shah Pahlavi. The atlas divides the country into 30 sections, accompanied by 36 chromolithographed maps and one lithographed index map, providing economic, agricultural, financial, demographic, commercial, and political information. It was published by Hossein (Ketabchi), an Iranian bookseller and publisher of Azerbaijani origin, who owned the Iqbal Publishing House in Istanbul between 1902 and 1943.

According to the preface and introduction, which begin with praise for the ruling Pahlavi dynasty, particularly Reza Shah, the Iranian publisher arranged each map in this atlas at a scale of 1:2,000,000. The maps are organized geographically, starting from Khorasan in the east and moving westward to Tabriz. The final two maps include place names (toponyms).

The maps included: Iran general political map and neighbouring countries and regions (Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Turkestan, Arabia, Iraq, the Caucasia, etc.), map of the mountains with an inlaid relief map of cities and regions such as Qum, Isfahan, Tehran, etc., map of Mashhad, Tous and Jam, map of Shirvan, Bojnurd, Jajrom and Bastam, map of Astrabad (Gorgan), Mazandaran and Semnan, map of Nishapur, Sabzavar, Shahrud, Tebes and Gonabad, map of Semnan, Lasjerd, Ardestan and Naeen, map of Mazandaran, Tehran, Qazvin and Rasht with Khazar shore, map of Qazvin, Mianeh County, Rasht and Hamadan, map of Langran, Ardabil and Tabriz, map of Tabriz, Khoy, Maku and Urmiya with the Lake of Urmiya, map of Urmiya, Sakhar and Sanandaj (Iran Kurdistan), map of Hamadan, Kermanshah, Borujerd and Dezful (Khozistan Province), map of Karbala, Bagdad and Khanakin (Iraq), map of Khozistan, Dezful and Shushtar, map of Fars Province, Shiraz, Bandar-e Bushehr, map of Fars Province, Shiraz, Firuzabad and Farg, map of Isfahan, Naeen, Abadeh and Merakan (Hormozgan Province), map of Qum, Kashan, Isfahan and Golpayegan, map of Yazd, Kerman Province, Marand and Bavanat, map of Kerman Province, Baft, Bam and Orzu, map of Bandar Abbas, Bandar Lengeh, Term and Bandar-e Jask with strait of Hormuz with the north of the Persian Gulf, a part of the Arabia (present day UAE and Omman), map of Fars Province, Larestan County and Jahangiri, map of Qaen, Birjand, Tebes, Tun (?) and Kuhestan of Mazandaran Province, map of Harat of Yazd Province, Khaf, Qaen, Birjand and Dorud, map of Mistan, Nehbandan and Sarhad district, map of Ladez, Jaleq, Kuhak and Sarbaz in Sistan and Beluchistan regions, map of Makran, Bahuklat and Bandar Gavater with the sea of Oman and shores, map of Makran, Qasr-e Qand, Shahbaz, map of Bam, Reykhan (South Khorasan), Bampur and Sarbaz, map of trade routes of Iran, map of Iranian railways, demographic map of Iran, relief maps of Iran from Bayazid to Tehran, from Bagdad to Tehran, three inlaid maps, relief maps of Iran from Mashhad to Tehran, from Isfahan to Tehran, three inlaid maps, and relief map of Iran from Bandar Abbas to Tehran and from Kashan to Bushehr including three inlaid maps.

Hossein (or Hüseyin) (later known as "Hüseyin Kitapçi" after the Surname Law in Turkey) began his career at the Iranian-origin Sems Publishing House before founding his own publishing house in 1902. Until he died in 1943, he made significant contributions to literature, publishing numerous works in literature, history, and geography. Hüseyin was especially accomplished in map publishing, producing over a hundred atlases and individual maps during the Ottoman Empire and early Republican periods. He collaborated frequently with Joseph A. Abajoli, a Levantine printer from Izmir (Smyrna). Abajoli's renowned printing house was located in what is now Beyoglu, formerly Pera, in Istanbul.

Not in Mushar. Not in OCLC.; Only one copy in the Library of the Museum and Document Centre of Iran Parliament [i.e., Chapkhana-ye Shura-ye Millî].