[RARE MAP OF THE RUSSIAN TURKESTAN / CENTRAL ASIA] Türkili haritasi ve ona ait izahlar. [i.e., Map of Turkestan with relevant explanations]. Cartographer: Behçet Begit

A[HMED] ZEKI VELIDI TOGAN (1890-1970), Alâeddin Kiral Basimevi, Istanbul, 1943. Color lithographed map in original wrappers. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 32, [1] p., 1 folding huge -double elephant folio- color lithographed map, (64 x 79 cm) with explanatory text. Occasionally foxing on the covers and some pages, several period marginal notes in pencil in the booklet; the map is very clean. Otherwise, a very good and complete set. A scarce map in an explanatory booklet on Turkestan, published in Early Republican Turkey. It’s very detailed on Turkish / Turkic peoples, autonomous states, and states' borders from the Caspian Sea and Caucasus to Eurasia; Turkestan, Central, and Siberia; China and its environment. The map is translated from a Russian military map with a 1:4.200.000 scale prepared by Zeki Velidi Togan, and mapped by Behçet Begit, who was an official cartographer of the Map Directory of Turkey. The map shows in detail mostly the east of the Caspian Sea, the area betwee