First edition, published posthumously and edited by Laurent Brosset, who wrote the ‘avertissement’. Mostras was the Russian consul in Smyrna in the mid-19th century, and his geographical dictionary was published under the aegis of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Dictionnaire Géographique De L’Empire Ottoman. Par C. Mostras. St.-Pétersbourg, 1873. Commissionnaires de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences: A St.-Pétersbourg: MM. Eggers & Co, H. Schmitzdorff, J. Issakof et A. Tcherkessof. A Riga: M. N. Kymmel. A Odessa: A. E. Kechribardshi. A Leipzig: M. Léopold Voss. Prix: 95 Cop. arg.=1 Thlr. 3 Ngr.