RARE late 19th-century travel guide to Turkey, Romania, Serbia and Bulgaria by Meyers travel books published from 1862 to 1936, and which were considered, along with Karl Baedeker`s guides, the best and most popular German guidebooks. Includes 6 maps (full page or fold-out), 26 plans and a fold-out panorama of Istanbul. 155x105mm. X+414+72 pages. Brown embossed Hardcover. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Text block edges marbled. Cover edges and corners rubbed and slightly bumped. Glue stain on spine and spine hinges. Spine rubbed. Spine edge bumped. Front whitepage missing (probably half of the Balkan states map, the first half present on endpaper). Pages 237/238 and 255/256 upper corner creased. Bottom edge/corner of Istanbul Grand Bazaar plan between pages 286-287 slightly torn (10mm). Tiny punctured bump-mark on pages 271-286 bottom edge/corner. Hinges of the fold-out panorama and map of Istanbul slightly wrinkled. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare early edition of Meyers travel guide to Ottoman Turkey and three countries previously under Ottoman rule - Romania, Serbia and Bulgaria, is otherwise in good condition.