[FIRST GUIDE TO TURKISH DRIVERS / AUTOMOBILE / DRIVING LICENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST] Soför muallimi: Otomobil ve makinist mektebi müessesi ve müdebbîri [i.e., Teacher of driving]

TEVFIK, FIKRI. Fikri Tevfik [Kardes] Otomobil ve Makinist Mektebi / Hüsnü Tabiat Matbaasi, Istanbul, 1928. Original pictorial wrappers in colour. Large demy 8vo. (22 x 15 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). [4], 248, 7, [16] p., 144 numbered ills. in reproduced cliches, lithographs and letterpress.  The very rare first and only edition of the first Turkish book on automobile driving. This earliest example of its kind including a very attractive cover design in colour with the logo of the first Automobile Association on the rear cover. The composition depicts a period car illuminating this logo by headlights, and a Turkish town and mountains in an impressive landscape behind it. It’s published as the third (and the last) book of the Driver’s Library Series.  This attractive book teaches driving in twenty lessons, especially for the candidates of the earliest driving licenses in Turkey, written by Fikri Tevfik, a founding member of the first Turkish automobile assoc