Human types (5010 Subjects)
A Spahi, member of the Ottoman cavalry corps. A Deli, member of the light cavalry.
The Minister of the Exterior (Reis Efendi). A Dragoman of the imperial palace.
The Chavush Bashi, head of the ushers of the Imperial palace. An usher of the Imperial palace.
A lower-ranking officer of the Janissary corps. A Janissary in ceremonial dress.
Ast-chi, a cook. Ast-chi bashi, head cook of the Janissary corps.
Lower-ranking officers carry the pot containing the Janissaries' meal. A Kasik-dar or Çorpaci, Captain of the Janissaries.
An officer of the Janissaries. The head of the lower-ranking officers (Bas- Chavus).
A Topchi, soldier of the artillery corps, dressed in the costume established in the late 18th century, after the Nizam-ı Cedid reform. A soldier of the Ottoman army, in similar dress.
A porter. A water seller.
A Greek and a Turkish sailor.
Frontispiece to the fifth volume of the edition. A scene in a public bath (hamam) of Istanbul.
A Mufti reading prayers at a Sultan's sarcophagus (türbe).
The head of the Ulemas, scholars of Islamic Law and other disciplines. The Kadi, head of the judges of Istanbul (Istanbul Kadişi).
Whirling dervishes of the Mevlevi order.
A wandering dervish. A dervish of Syria.
Stages of Muslim prayer.
Example of a mosque.
An Ottoman fountain.
An Ottoman tomb.
Frontispiece to the sixth volume of the edition. A woman from Aleppo and a woman from Antioch.
A Turkish man wearing a fur coat. A Turkish man wearing a shawl.
Bedouin woman. Arab Bedouin man.
Bedouin woman making butter.
A Turkish man from Acre (today in Israel). A Muslic woman of the desert, of Arabic ethnicity.
An Arab from Syria. A Muslim woman of Arabic ethnicity from Egypt.
Kurdish people.
Turkish women of Asia Minor making bread.
Druze women of Syria grinding flour.
Turkish man from Tunis and Turkish man from Damascus.
Bosnian man. Tatar man.