Handels-Adressbuch Lettlands/ Latvijas Tirdniecibas un Rupniecibas Adresu Gramatas, Vacu Izdevums, 1939.

Estimate

$1,200–$1,800

Hammer price

Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(LATVIA).

printer

Handels- und Industriekammer Lettlands

Place

Riga

Publication

1939

Description

Text in German. Divided into multiple sections.

summary

Latvia Business Directory for the year 1939. Tremendous detail relating to Latvia at the cusp of the Second World War. Information regarding business, professional and industrial enterprises, along with contact for political offices, including diplomatic and embassies worldwide. Extremely useful for genealogical research. The initial text discusses all manner of Latvian regulations on commerce and foreign trade. This is followed by an alphabetical section noting a panoply of goods and services. The main portion of the text features an alphabetical listing of 1,317 individual businesses in Latvia, with their addresses and phone numbers. The final section with its own pagination contains 74 pages of period advertisements (many illustrated) of Latvian businesses.

pp. 196, 74. Original green pictorial printed boards.

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