[FIRST COMPLETE GEOLOGICAL MAPS OF TURKEY] 1:800.000 ölçekli Türkiye jeoloji hartasi [sic. haritasi]. [i.e. Geological maps of Turkey scaled 1:800.000]. 8 maps set

ENVER NECDET EGERAN (1907-2005), and ERWIN LAHN, Maden Tetkik ve Arama (MTA) / Kâgit ve Basim Isleri A.S., Istanbul, (1942-1944). Eight offset lithograph maps mounted on cloth in a contemporary dark brown pandizot box with snakeskin motives. Maps are folded in the box. Maps' sizes: 55x75 cm, box size: 20x15x6 cm. In Turkish. "Fikret Silay" is written on the up corner of the box. Only the second sheet (Ankara Sheet) of the maps, is not mounted on cloth. Chipping on the upper right corner of this sheet, otherwise a very good set of maps. Extremely rare offset lithograph set of the first complete Turkish geological maps. Mineral Research and Exploration Institute of Turkey, which was founded on June 22, 1935, according to law no: 2804 approved on June 14, 1935, by the New Republican Parliament, published these first completed geological maps of Turkey at a scale of 1:800,000 as a result of the geological researches carried out between 1941-1945. These rare maps come along an exceptional p