FEBURE

L’ETAT PRESENT DE LA TURQUIE

OU Il est traite des vies, moeurs & coutumes des Ottomans, & autres Peuples de leur Empire,

par le Sieur Michel Febure

Paris, 1675

A Rare First French edition, dedicated to the King and translated by the author from his original Italian version, which appeared the previous year in 1674. This survey of Ottoman government, customs, and religion originally published in Italian as Specchio . . . della Turchia in 1674. This present work is much expanded from the former, to illustrate ‘the wrong working of the Ottoman Empire’. Febure was a missionary and orientalist who by his own account spent 18 years wandering in the Levant. He had taken the religious name Guistiniano when he joined the Capuchin order.