Amen Bey, the First Turkish Envoy From the Sultan of Constantinople to the United States, 1851 antique map Pacific William Buel Franklin

William Buel Franklin

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Amen Bey, the First Turkish Envoy From the Sultan of Constantinople to the United States, 1851 antique map Pacific William Buel FranklinAmen Bey, the First Turkish Envoy From the Sultan of Constantinople to the United States, 1851. A documentary engraving of the Sublime Porte's first emissary to Washington, rendered at a moment when the young republic was still learning to receive the world's old courts Ottoman robes inked with the careful curiosity of a nation testing its diplomatic reach. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the