MUSTAFA SåMI EFENDI: - Avrupa Risalesi (Pamphlet on Europe). Istanbul, Takvimhane-i Amire, 1256 H (1840).

. Small 8vo. Pp. 40. Text in Turkish. Contemporary blue wrappers in modern marbled folder. Copy of Alix Desgranges (1793-1854), professor of Turkish at Collège de France and L'Ecole des Jeunes de langues. First edition. Rare. An early Turkish attempt to explain the causes of things to be admired in the civilization of Europe. Diplomat Mustafa Sámi travelled extensively within Europe and participated as a member of a Turkish legation to Paris in 1838. Upon his return he wrote this work about people, lifestyle, science, climate, education etc. in Europe. He felt that the advanced state of Europe stemmed from its excellence in science. See Niyazo Berkes, The development of secularism in Turkey, 1999 p. 129. Özege 1323.

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