[THE FIRST HISTOLOGY BOOK IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE] علم انساج طبیعیّه / Ilm-i ensâc-i tabiiye: Osmanli TibFakültesi ilm-i ensâc ve mübahis [i.e., The science of natural diseases: The science of natural Diseases and Debates at the Ottoman Faculty of Medicine]

[ÖRENSOY], TEVFIK RECEP (1875-1951).

Müsterekü'l-Menfaa Osmanli Sirketi Matbaasi, Istanbul, AH 1327 = [1911 CE].

Contemporary quarter calf with Ottoman lettered gilt title on spine. Original marbled
front and endpapers. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters. [8], 545, [8] p. Occasional foxing and staining visible on the pages. Otherwise, a good copy.

The very rare first edition of the first histology book ever written in Turkish, not a translation. (GülhaneTip online).

After graduating from the Military Medical School in Istanbul in 1898, Doctor and Captain Tevfik Recep Bey was sent to the University of Würzburg in Germany on September 19, 1899, by Rieder Pasha, the founder of GATA, to pursue a doctorate in histology and embryology following a year of internship training. He completed his doctorate and returned to Turkey, becoming the first Turkish physician to earn a doctorate in this field. After receiving modern training, Dr. Tevfik Recep Örensoy began teaching histology and embryology in Turkey and became the most consistent and significant contributor to these disciplines in the country. Leaving GATA in 1909, he joined the newly established Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, where he founded the Chair of Histology and Embryology and published Turkey’s first histology textbook the same year. He later published a Histology Atlas and an Embryology book in 1935.

Özege 8867.; As of May 2025, OCLC lists the only copy (949476008) in the Boğaziçi University Library, Turkey. It is not located in any American or other worldwide libraries.