[FIRST TURKISH STUDY ON HALLEY'S COMET] Kuyruklu yildizlar ve Halley Kevkeb-i Gisudâri: Neler olacak? Ale'lumûm kuyruklu yildizlar ile Halley necm-i gisudâri hakkinda malûmât ve tedkikâti samil risâledir [i.e. Comets and Halley's Comet]

VELID, EBÜZZIYAZÂDE ABDURRAHMAN (1882-1945). Matbaa-yi Ebüzziya, Istanbul, AH 1327 = [1912]. Original attractive illustrated wrappers. Foolscap 8vo. (18 x 12 cm). In Ottoman script. (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 96 p., richly illustrated.Scarce first edition of the first original and richly illustrated Turkish study on Halley's Comet, which is visible from Earth every 75-79 years, written by Abdurrahman Velid (1884-1945), the youngest son of an Ottoman publisher and author Ebüzziya Mehmed Tevfik (1849-1913). This book was published by the printing house of the Velid family,  titled "Matbaa-i Ebüzziya". According to the introduction titled "Ashab-i Mütalaaya", this work was published five or six days before Halley's approach to the world, and it caused public uneasiness due to its possible contact with the world. Writing that he decided to write a work about the nature of comets and Halley's Comet, the author says that he brought together the information compiled from the books of