SCHMIDT, H.W. Auskunftsbuch für den Handel mit der Türkei. Kurzgefaßtes Nachschlagebuch für Handel und Industrie. Leipzig, Berlin and Constantinople, B. G. Teubner, 1917.
Small 8vo. Original cloth, lettered in black; pp. 178, [6, advertisements], [16, blank for notes], two folding maps on one sheet, map in two colours as rear paste-down; evenly a little browned due to paper stock, a few marginal holes to upper margins at the beginning.
First edition of this very rare handbook for the trade between Germany and the ailing Ottoman Empire, welded together during the First World War. Descriptions of towns and their goods, German companies and their branches in Turkey and the Arabic peninsula, difficulties for the trade arising from the war and much more useful information is given in this volume.
Provenance: Imperial War Museum.
COPAC locates a single copy, in the BL.
#2098715