FRANS OUTENDIRCK: LA TURQUIE A PROPOS DE L EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE DE 1867. PARIS 1867 Fist edition, in large 4to, contemporary blue cloth, complete 424p., text clean and bright, overall in almost fine condition. The World Expo of 1867 held in Paris was the second great international exhibition and the most spectacular of the 19th century.. Outendirck was the General Commissioner for the Ottoman Empire during the 1867 World Expo. He played a major role during the fair to translate the Ottoman world of the 1860s into something that the Parisian public would fine useful and modern. All participated countries provided publications, specially for the exhibition, to promote their countries. This is the book that describes the Ottoman Levant of the 1860s to the world. A very detailed study, compiled from different sources that cover the Levant: A short historical introduction,geography,ethnography.statistics, agriculture, industry and commerce, at the end a chapter on the modernization of the Ottomans the last decades. Although is evidently an embellished effort in several fields, it contain invaluable data on trade and the economy that only a state publication could provide. These publications were only offered to the visitors of the 1867 World Expo and are actually almost unobtainable.