[ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE / MOSQUES IN CONSTANTINOPLE] Mecmuâ-yi cevâmi’. [i.e., The collection of the mosques]. 2 volumes set in one

ISMAILZÂDE OSMAN HACI (19^th century), Karabet ve Kasbar Matbaasi, Istanbul, AH 1304 = [1886/87].

Original publisher’s cloth. Cr. 8vo. (19 x 13 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 2 volumes set: (7, 128 p.; 3, 87 p.). Slight foxing on pages and covers, and light wear to the spine, a very good copy.

First and only edition of this extremely rare architectural work containing an invaluable inventory of the Ottoman mosques and dervish lodges, today many of which don't exist, their days of acceptance for worship, districts, and their architects and the founders of a total of 313 lodges, 172 within the walls (Vol. 1) and 132 outside the walls and on the Anatolian side (Vol. 2) built in the Ottoman capital Constantinople (Istanbul) after the Byzantine Empire.

their days of acceptance for worship, districts, and their architects and the founders of a total of 313 lodges, 172 within the walls (Vol. 1) and 132 outside the walls and on the Anatolian side (Vol. 2) built in the Ottoman capital Constantinople (Istanbul) after the Byzantine Empire.

No information in the literature about the author's life, except that he is an immigrant from Niš of Serbia as it’s written on the book’s cover.

Özege 12524.; As of November 2023, several copies in the OCLC and KVK in Princeton University Library of America, CTSFW Library, Virginia Tech, Center for Research Libraries, Carl B. Ylvisaker Library, DTS Turpin Library, Alamo Colleges Northeast Lakeview College Library, University of California NRLF, UC Berkeley Libraries, University of California, Los Angeles, Hawaii Pacific University.