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Baedeker, Karl. Baedeker's Palestine and Syria. Baedeker, 1898.
Price: US$304.43 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With 20 maps, 48 plans and a panorama of Jerusalem. Third edition revised and augmented. With gilt titles, marbled page edges and green silk page marker. Original hard cloth boards showing some wear, no creasing, tears, annotations or other markings save some words in pencil on the last page and a neat name in pencil to the fep. All books are swathed in biodegradable bubble wrap and posted in strong, custom made book boxes to ensure undamaged delivery.
Seller: Blaeberry Books, Lilliesleaf, United Kingdom
Price: US$349.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Third Edition, revised and augmented (the Peninsula of Sinai is new to this edition). cxviii,472pp, profusely illustrated with 20 maps and 48 plans (many folding) and a panorama of Jerusalem. Publisher's red flexible cloth stamped in blind and gilt, all edges marbled, green silk page-maker. Near Fine, pages and plates supple though marginally toned, binding square and tight with bright gilt, maps properly folded and free of repairs, neat marginal notes in pencil to several sections, light stain to front paste-down. Provenance: Ink inscription, dated 1905, San Francisco, of Wallace Bradford to front fly-leaf. (Seven years later, Bradford witnessed the sinking of the Titanic from aboard the steamer Carpathia, and wrote a thrilling account of the rescue of 710 people early on the morning of April 15, 1912.) An unusually well-preserved copy. Hinrichsen E256. "The Romantic movement in Germany had given a new impetus to travel . . . In 1828 Baedeker bought the rights to J. A. Klein's Rheinreise von Mainz bis Köln and, after the death of the author, Baedeker himself revised and updated the work, recreating it for a new market. Using his own travel experiences he guided the tourist to the principal attractions in each place, saving travellers the expense of hiring their own guide. He thus created a new type of guidebook, which was widely copied throughout Europe and opened up tourism to a new class of visitor. The reliability of the information was ensured by annual journeys by Baedeker himself and by reference to respected published sources and expert scholars. . . . For the serious tourist a Baedeker was indispensable, its tone, especially with respect to southern Europeans, assuring northerners of their superiority, and suggesting ways of avoiding dangers. When Lucy Honeychurch finds herself âIn Santa Croce with no Baedeker' in E. M. Forster's A Room with a View (1908) she is entirely lost." (ODNB) Note: With few exceptions (always noted), we only stock Baedekers in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene wrappers.
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Karl Baedeker. Palestine and Syria. Karl Baedeker, Not Stated, 1898.
Price: US$369.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An early edition describing Palestine and Syria, complete with folding maps and a folding panorama. The first edition to include the Peninsula of Sinai.Lacking a title page; dated and edition established by the pagination.The third edition.Complete with twenty maps and forty-eight plans, including the folding rear endpaper, and one folding panorama. Collated, complete besides the lacking title page. In the original full cloth binding. Externally very smart; a touch of wear to the head of the spine. Front endpaper and title page have been removed. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are occasionally a touch spotted, with some odd age toning to the edges. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$490.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (3), CXVIII, 472 pages. The original flexible (semi rigid) red flexible cloth has gilt titles on spine & front cover. Prior owner¿s signature in pencil, and hence erasable, on front blank. Marbled edges. With green silk ribbon book marker. Hinrichsen E256. "The Romantic movement in Germany had given a new impetus to travel . . . In 1828 Baedeker bought the rights to J. A. Klein's Rheinreise von Mainz bis Köln and, after the death of the author, Baedeker himself revised and updated the work, recreating it for a new market. Using his own travel experiences he guided the tourist to the principal attractions in each place, saving travellers the expense of hiring their own guide. He thus created a new type of guidebook, which was widely copied throughout Europe and opened up tourism to a new class of visitor. The reliability of the information was ensured by annual journeys by Baedeker himself and by reference to respected published sources and expert scholars. . . . For the serious tourist a Baedeker was indispensable, its tone, especially with respect to southern Europeans, assuring northerners of their superiority, and suggesting ways of avoiding dangers. When Lucy Honeychurch finds herself 'In Santa Croce with no Baedeker' in E. M. Forster's A Room with a View (1908) she is entirely lost.
Seller: Meir Turner, New York, NY, U.S.A.