[JAPAN / RUSSIA / THE BATTLE OF TSUSHIMA] Kapudan Vladimir Simenof'un rûznâmesi: Çosima Muharebe-i Bahriyesi. Translated by M. Nahid.

Original wrappers. Foolscap 8vo. (18 x 12 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). [24], 103, [4] p. Slight age toning on wrappers, chipping on lower spine. Overall, a very good copy. Exceedingly rare first and only Turkish edition of Semenov's essential account of the famous naval battle of Tsushima, from the Russian perspective, is a well-known and highly regarded book by an author who experienced the conflict firsthand. This all-published Turkish edition includes the Port Arthur, the Battles of the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan, and the Battle of Tsushima with the events after that famous encounter. It was translated only two years after Semenov's death by M. Nahid in Turkish, who was one of the engineers of Turgud Reis (SMS Weissenburg), of the first ocean-going battleships of the Imperial German Navy, which was sold to the Ottoman Empire in 1910 and renamed Turgut Reis, after the famous 16th-century Turkish admiral. The book has a long preface by Nahid aiming to hold up as a strategic example for the Ottoman navy from the mistakes of this sea battle during the Russian-Japanese War in 1905. The Battle of Tsushima in Japan was a major naval battle fought between Russia and Japan during the Russo-Japanese War, fought on 27-28 May 1905 (14-15 May in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia) in the Tsushima Strait located between Korea and southern Japan. In this battle, the Japanese fleet under Admiral Tôgô Heihachirô destroyed the Russian fleet, under Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky, which had traveled over 18,000 nautical miles (33,000 km) to reach the Far East. Özege 10147.; As of December 2023, any copies couldn't be found in the OCLC.

Lingue: Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)