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حسين بك حسنى
Hüseyin Hüsnü Pasha (Hüseyin Bey Pasha, Hussein Hosni Pasha, Hussein Bey Husni) bin Mohammad (?-1886), Translator.

الدر النثير في النصيحة والتحذير
[al-Durr al-nathir fi-l-nasiha wa-l-tahdhir / Scattered Pearls of Advice and Admonition]

[S. L., S. N., but Cairo: Bulaq Press] 1290 [1874].

The booklet contains 25 short moralistic stories on animals, translated from a Turkish manuscript. The text is accompanied with handsome lithographed illustrations.

Hussein Hosni Pasha (Hüseyin Hüsnü Pasha, Hussein Bey Husni) bin Mohammad (?-1886) was a graduate od the Engineering School in Cairo, but started working for the Bulaq press in 1268, where he reached the rank of the superintendant.

Worldcat lists a single example of the title (National Library of Poland).

References: OCLC 947769270; جاك تاجر, حركة الترجمة بمصر خلال القرن التاسع عشر, Kindle Version; الأعلام – ج 2 – افتخار – دنانير, p. 235. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, The Turks in Egypt and their Cultural Legacy, 2012, p. 299.