"TURKISH MINES. FISCHBACH, mining engineer. Autograph manuscript signed, title + 6 pp. large folio (40 x 27.5 cm). "Prisren" [Prizren, Kosovo], November 5, 1869. Handsome manuscript illustrated with 6 color drawings, dedicated "to His Excellency Daoud Pasha, Minister of Public Works in Constantinople", titled: "Mémoire sur les mines en Turquie, appendice au Rapport de Prisren du 1er septembre 1869 - Les mines impériales de Pélidi en Asie mineure, de plomb argentifère et découverte d'une mine de plomb carboné, mines de cuivre à Sari Jeri près de Buyukdéré, mines de plomb argentifère au Serrés-Kara-Dagh et découverte des terres & sables aurifères par l'ingénieur Fischbach. "

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