[RUSSIA / GEOGRAPHY] Kafkasya ve Asya-yi Vustâ ve Türkistan vilâyetleri, Buhara ve Hiyve hanliklari... [i.e., Detailed geographical, political, historical and statistical account of the Caucasus, Central Asia, Turkestan, Bukhara and the Khivan Khanate]

BINBASI NAZMI, Matbaa-i Askeriye, Istanbul, [AH 1334] = 1918. COMPLETE TITLE: [RUSSIA / GEOGRAPHY] Kafkasya ve Asya-yi Vustâ ve Türkistan vilâyetleri, Buhara ve Hiyve hanliklari. Coğrafî, siyasî, tarihî ve istatistikî mücmel malûmât. [i.e., Detailed geographical, political, historical and statistical account of the Caucasus, Central Asia, Turkestan, Bukhara and the Khivan Khanate]. Original wrappers. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 16 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). [ii], 63 p., one folded map at the end-pocket. Ownership inscription in pencil on the first page; otherwise, a very good copy. First and only edition of this extremely rare and early translation in Ottoman language from Russian by Turkish major Nazmi, which was prepared by a Russian Commission between 1912 and 1914 to make a multi-dimensional presentation of the countries under the administration of Soviet Russia including the Caucasia, Central Asia, Turkestan, Bukhara, Khiva, etc. The work has a striking account