[EARLY OTTOMAN EDITION OF TAXIL'S JESUIT BOOK] Jezvit (Cizvit) tarihi. [i.e. History of the Jesuits]. Translated by Ahmed Rasim.

LEO TAXIL, [Marie Joseph Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pagès], (1854-1907). Matbaa-i Ebüzziya., Ist., [AH. 1304] = 1887. Original wrappers. 12mo. (16 x 12 cm). In Ottoman script. 44 p. Hejra-Hijri: 1304 = Gregorian: 1887. Extremely rare first edition of this Ottoman edition of 'history of the Jesuits'. This book has been abridged and translated from Taxil's work. Marie Joseph Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pagès, better known by the pen name Léo Taxil was a French writer and journalist who became known for his strong anti-Catholic and anti-clerical views. He is also known for the Taxil hoax, a spurious expose of Freemasonry and the Roman Catholic Church's opposition to it. Marie Joseph Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pagès was born in Marseille, and at the age of five, he was placed into a Jesuit seminary. After spending his childhood years in the seminary, he became disillusioned with the Catholic faith and began to see the religious ideology as socially harmful. Taxil first became known for writing anti-Cle