[Turkey] MEHMED EFENDI (Yirmisekiz Çelebi). Relation de l'am - Lot 14

[Turkey] MEHMED EFENDI (Yirmisekiz Çelebi). Relation de l'ambassade de Mehemet-Effendi à la Cour de France, en 1721, written by himself and translated from the Turkish. Constantinople ; Paris, Ganeau, 1757. One volume in-12, marbled basane, ornate spine. (2) ff., XII, 233 pp. First edition translated from Ottoman Turkish by Julien-Claude Galland of this famous account of the embassy sent by Sultan Ahmed III to Louis XV. Written by Yirmisekiz Çelebi Mehmed Efendi (1680-1732), Ottoman ambassador to Paris between 1720 and 1721, this account helped change the Ottoman Empire's image of Europeans in terms of culture, lifestyle and literature. The copy in the Bibliothèque nationale de France is unique in having an engraved portrait of the author on the frontispiece.