L'ETAT PRESENT DE LA BOUCHARIE [THE STATE OF BUKHARA] contains a precise description of the geography, religion, customs, form of government and trade, an account of the latest revolution in this country, the tragic end of Prince Bosto-Cham and the life of his successor Contaisch Areptan, the current prince and ruler, taken from the manuscript of a traveller. Cologne, 1723.

– [4], 47 pp.: ill., 1 ill. (frontispiece), 1 map; 16×9.5 cm. Engraved frontispiece and fold-out map of the Caspian Sea coast. With original period paper cover with a handwritten label bearing a brief title. Tears and fragmentary losses along the spine. Minor soiling and water stains on the cover; the block is in good condition, with individual leaves and the map detached. An engraved bookplate of Martin Winkler by A. Kravchenko on the inside front cover. Anonymous edition. Great Bukhara, or the Bukhara Khanate, was an Uzbek state that existed from 1500 to 1785 in Central Asia, covering the territories of modern-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmeni-stan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Iran and China. The Bukhara Khanate was also often referred to as its suc-cessor – the Bukhara Emirate, which existed from 1785 to 1920. Provenance: Martin Winkler (1893–1982) – German cultural and art his-torian, professor, specialist in Old Russian art, member of the German Society for the Study of Eastern Europe.