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11, [1] pp. With double-page map of the Pekin Syndicate Railway; folding color geological map of the Shansi region showing the Syndicate's rights; map on inside of front wrapper showing the location of the Syndicate coal field. 30.3x24.5 cm (12x9½"), printed wrappers. 

The Pekin Syndicate Ltd. was a large British holding company that heavily invested in China’s coal mines. It was incorporated in 1897 as financial venture designed to obtain concessions from China and to promote these, and when obtained, in the form of separate companies. Angelo Luzatti , the Syndicate agent, obtained the coal and iron mining rights with related railroad concessions (he later built the 90-mile Honan railway) covering an area of 21,000 square miles in Shansi and Honan provinces. The company existed until establishment of the People’s Republic of China. when Chinese authorities dissolved the foreign company for good. There were editions of this elaborate prospectus in English, French, and German, all scarce. OCLC locates four copies of this German edition, three of them at the British Library or British Library Reference Collections, one at the National Library of Scotland.