Redhouse James W. A Turkish and English Lexicon Shewing in English The Significations of The Turkish Terms

New Impression, reprint Beirut 1987. — Constantinople: Printed for the American Mission by A.H. Boyjian, 1890. — 2224 p.The Turkish Lexicon of Sir James Redhouse, which is now placed before the public, will speak for itself of the great acquirements and patient labors of its eminent author. A special statement on the part of the Committee of Publication is however due to the author, since the full fruit of his laborious preparation of manuscript for this Lexicon does not appear in the work as now published. A large amount of recondite and extremely interesting and valuable information concerning the History, Biography, Geography, and Religious practices of the peoples of Western Asia, was contained in the manuscript, which the Committee have been compelled to omit in publication. Limitations as to space imperatively demanded this regrettable sacrifice of material, which equals in the aggregate several hundred pages. The Lexicon has undoubtedly suffered by reason of the impossibility of rhe author's presence in Constantinople during the process of publication, since not only the excision of the parts referred to, but the verification of many idioms and technical expressions have been confided necessarily to the Committee. For aid in this and other parts of its onerous undertaking the Committee is under unusual obligations to H. H. Ahmed Yefiq Pasha. It should be noted here that the Publication Committee alone is responsible for the system of orthography of English words which is followed.