PIRI REIS :BAHRIJE (Navigation), Das Turkische Segelhandbuch fur das Mittelandische Meer von Jahre 1521, herausgegeben ubersetzt und erklant von Paul Kahle.Berlin Leipzig 1926 First printed edition of the famous Geographical and nautical manual on Mediterranean written by Piri Reis in early 16th century.Complete in three volumes,volume one and first part of volume two cover the ottoman text and the maps, second part of volume two provides (for the very first time) a translation and annotations.Contemporary publishers paper covers,complete,text clean and bright,a fine set with few scientific marginalia with pencil. Piri Reis an Ottoman captain (of Christian family descent,more plausible from a Greek converted family of Northern Aegean) became one of the most important Ottoman geographer of the 16th century,his book is an invaluable source for the Aegean and the Mediterranean sea of early 16th century.It provides detailed descriptions of all the main Greek islands and maritime places.Tenedos,Imbros,Limnos, Thassos, Chalkidike, Thessaloniki,Evia,Mytilini,Smyrni,Chios,Samos as well many Dodecanese islands etc are described in details in separate chapters. The text was based on the second version of the manuscript (1526), which Piri Reis had expanded and dedicated to Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. This version contains the famous poetic preface where Piri Reis discusses his methods, his sources (including Columbus), and the importance of accurate navigation.It reproduced the individual coastal maps that make the Bahriye famous.It is still the purest modern printing. It maintains the visual rhythm of the original Arabic calligraphy integrated with the maps, providing a look and feel that is much closer to the 16th-century manuscripts found in the Topkapi Palace than the translated versions that followed.A unique source for 16th century Greece.