[CENTRAL ASIA / RUSSIA / THE GREAT GAME] Musavver Hive seyahatnamesi ve tarihi. Translated by Ahmed Sükrü

MAGEMAN, AMERIKALI (J[ANUARIUS] A[LOYSIUS] MAC GAHAN), (1844-1878), Basiret Matbaasi, Istanbul (Constantinople), [AH 1292] = 1875. Original quarter black leather. Ottoman title-lettered gilt on the spine with decorative elements in compartments. Demy 8vo. (22 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 459 p., 32 woodcut plates with tissue papers and a folding color map of Khiva calligraphed by Mehmed Vasfi. AH 1292 = Gregorian: 1875. Extremely rare first Turkish edition of this richly illustrated eye-witness travel account of the 1873 Russo-Khivan war and the fall of the Khivan Khanate, by the American war correspondent MacGahan (1844-1878), which was first published in New York in 1874 as "Campaigning on the Oxus and the fall of Khiva", translated by Ahmed Sükrü (?-1876-77) who was the first Postmaster General.After a daring journey through the Kyzil Kum desert, McGahan joined von Kaufmann's army on the banks of the Amu-Darya, shortly before the fall of Khiva. Inte