DEVEDJIAN (Karekin). - Lot 18

DEVEDJIAN (Karekin). Fishing and Fisheries in Turkey. Constantinople, Imprimerie de l'Administration de la Dette Publique Ottomane, 1926. Large in-4. 480 pp, 1 map and 169 pp, over 200 figures in black. Publisher's paperback, illustrated cover on gray paper. Very rare Constantinopolitan edition in French of one of the first works on fishing in Turkey, originally published in Ottoman Turkish in 1915. Karakin Deveciyan was director of fisheries in Istanbul, and his work is one of the first major studies on the subject. Detailed descriptions of marine and freshwater fish and other aquatic organisms, technical and economic information. Includes a double-page hors-texte map: Carte des pêcheurs dans les eaux de Constantinople. It is unique to the French edition and absent from the original Ottoman Turkish publication. A 169-page appendix provides detailed statistical data on species, quantities and prices of seafood sold in Istanbul, as well as information on Turkey's lakes and rivers. A separately inserted pink leaflet contains the law of 1926 (no. 820) relating to the regulation of the fishing police applicable in Constantinople and its environs. CAVIAR. STURGEON.