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James F. Muirhead. Baedeker's United States 1893. Karl Baedeker, Leipsic, 1893.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Very hard to locate copy of the very first edition of Baedker's United States with an Excursion Into MexicoGilt stamped covers with page edge marbling. Hinges are separating from the covers.
Seller: Cerulean Day, Newtown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition from 1893, published in Germany by Karl Baedeker and in London, England by Dulau and Co. Red cloth over thin, flexible boards. Gilt lettering on cover and spine. Significant wear to cloth with boards exposed in multiple places along edges; some scratching and scuffing; spine is toned. Binding is tight. Interior has light toning and occasional small tears and creases. Front pastedown has a list of other Baedeker guides. Previous owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper. Bookstore stamp on rear endpaper. Includes 17 maps and 21 plans; the plan of New York called for in the Contents appears to be missing. Large folding map of the U.S. is bound in after the index and is in good condition with a few small tears. This is the first book on the United States and Mexico from German publisher Baedeker, a pioneer in the field of travel guides. The highly-detailed volume in English features sections on New York, Philadelphia, Gettysburg, Yellowstone, Chicago, San Francisco, and many other locations. It was largely written by James Muirhead and was called "the first comprehensive guide to the country," by Herbert Warren Wind. Hinrischen E259.
Seller: Back of Beyond Books WH, Moab, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$115.94 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp c, 516. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered gilt on spine and front cover and lined in blind. Illustrated throughout, including 17 maps, 22 plans. General map of USA folded at rear complete but with minor wear. Some rubbing, dullness and wear, spine hinges slightly chipped used reasonable vg minus
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo, thin red cloth, gilt stamped, spine a bit darkened, [c], 516pp. Priced listing of other guide book titles pasted to inside front cover. HEINRICHSEN E-259. First Edition. Nearly a Very Good copy.
Seller: Steve Finer - Rare Books, Greenfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: light wear to covers, which are uniformly faded, previous owner's inscription of 1897, chip to the title page edge. Published in Leipsic by Baedeker and London by Dulau & Co. Quite scarce, the WorldCat locates 5 copies of this edition, 4 in thee UK and 1 in Australia. 17 maps and 22 plans called for all present and correct, with an occasional short tear. Verso of front cover: an advertisement for twenty-five titles available in the US from Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Quite scarce in the first edition. Hinrischen E259 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hard Cover. First printing, no others noted. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!
Seller: The Book Shed, Benson, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Leipzig: Verlag Von Karl Baedeker, 1893. Red cloth boards, 488 pages. First edition. Gold lettering on the cover and spine; marbled fore-edges. Detached green cloth bookmark. Publishers list on the front attached endpaper. Contains 17 maps, 22 plans of towns, and 2 ground plans. There is a large folding map of the United States at the end. Color details on the maps and plans, many are folding. Text in German. Bumped edges and corners of the boards, as well as some bumps and short tears on the crown/foot of the spine. Slight fading on the spine. Light toning throughout and some rippling from age. Front endpapers have mild stains on their edges. All the maps and plans are present, but several have tears on the edges or creases where the maps were folded clumsily. The large map of the US does have several tears and creases; please email for photos. This is the first of only two editions of Baedekers Nordamerika.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Baedeker, Karl.. Baedeker's United States.. Karl Baedeker,, Leipzig:, 1893.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 16mo (4 1/4" x 6 1/2"), red cloth, gilt title on top cover and spine, illustrated with maps, 516 pp. Binding a little faded, very slight extremity wear, rear map of U.S. detached, back hinge a little weak, some aging and a little browning, rear endpaper browned and brittle, normal aging overall; otherwise about very good. Karl Baedeker (1801-1959) was born in Essen, and attended Heidelberg University. His family was involved in the publishing and bookselling business, and around 1828 he entered the travel guide business. Baedeker created a different kind of travel book that opened up tourism for a new class of travelers, by guiding the tourist to the principal attractions in a country or area. This information was often edited by Baedeker himself, and sons would take over and expand the business after his death. This edition provides considerable information and many maps and plans of parts of the United States. Includes maps of the New York City, San Francisco, Northern Florida, Southern California, the Catskill Mountains, and Boston, and general map of the United States. ODB. $200
Seller: Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books, ABAA, Florham Park, NJ, U.S.A.
Baedeker, Karl. United States with an excursion into Mexico.. Baedeker, Leipzig, 1893.
Price: US$276.22 + shipping
Description: Mit C, 516 Seiten, 17 gefalteten, farbigen Karten und 22 teilweise gefalteten und farbigen Plänen, goldgeprägter Oln mit marmoriertem Buchschnitt, 8° ( 16,5 x 10,5 cm ) Einband berieben, etwas angestaubt und fleckig, der Vorderdeckel mit größerem Fleck, der schmale Einbandrücken an den Kapitalen etwas beschädigt. Innen Besitzvermerk von alter Hand auf dem Vorsatz *Dr. Eduard Hallier, St. Louis, 7.6.93* ( Eduard Hallier *1866-1959 = Begründer der Hamburger Lesehalle, der Vorform der Hamburger Bücherhale und Volkshochschule ), einige Seiten gering fleckig, die zahlreichen Pläne und Karten vollständig, einige hiervon mit kleineren Randläsionen, insgesamt aber gut erhalten.>>>First edition. C, 516pp, 17 maps and 22 plans, original red cloth. The United States was the first Baedeker originally written in English by J. F. Muirhead who was the English editor of the Baedeker Guides. Issued c.1893. Hinrichsen E259. ( Gewicht 450 Gramm ) ( Pic erhältlich // webimage available )
Seller: Antiquariat Friederichsen, Hamburg, Germany
Baedeker, K. (ed.). United States, with an excursion into Mexico. Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1893.
Price: US$309.18 + shipping
Description: The first of Baedeker's guides to be published in English. A tidy copy. Comb marbling to edges. Weight: 1.0 Language: English Publisher's red cloth, gilt title
Seller: Acanthophyllum Books, Holywell, FLINT, United Kingdom
Baedeker, Karl. BAEDEKER'S UNITED STATES WITH AN EXCURSION INTO MEXICO. New York, 1893.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo, flexible red boards, gilt title on spine and cover, bright, complete with all maps and charts, ink and pencil writing on blank pages seemingly an itinerary, a very nice copy with a trifle of wear of a fragile book.VV2/2
Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Baedeker, Karl. THE UNITED STATES With an Excursion Into Mexico. Karl Baedeker, Leipsic, 1893.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boards a bit darkened. Some darkening to edges, but still showing the nice marbled pattern. Internally an impeccable copy with tight binding and all maps in VG+ condition. One of the nicest copies we have seen. ; With 19 maps and 24 plans; 16mo - 6" to 7" tall; 516 pages
Seller: Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore, Westport, CT, U.S.A.
Karl Baedeker. The United States with an Excursion to Mexico. Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, London, 1893.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Flexible red wraps with stamped design, gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Some scuffing to covers, previous owners on ffp dated 1897. Marbeled epp, 516pp includes index. All maps & plans appear to be present and are crisp and neatly folded. Gilt on spine not as bright as front cover but still perfectly legible. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
Seller: Old Inlet Bookshop, Homer, AK, U.S.A.
Price: US$480.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo., (6 2/8 x 4 1/8 inches). Half-title. Large folding chromolithographed map of the United States at end (a bit browned at folds), 16 other maps 22 plans, including many double-page or folding, as per the contents (one or two creases, some marginal toning, but BRIGHT AND ATTRACTIVE). Original red cloth, gilt (spine faded, extremities just a little worn, one or two pale stains). First edition in English, published simultaneously in German. An extensive guide-book with maps and plans of all major cities, and tourist destinations such as Yellowstone National Park, the Battlefield of Gettysburg, the Grand Canyon, the Yosemite, and including Mexico. Including a brief history of the U.S. and since the country is so large a range of suggested tours: "The plan of tour must depend entirely on the traveller's taste and the time he has at his disposal. It is manifestly impossible to cover more than a limited section of so vast a territory in an ordinary travelling season; but the enormous distances are practically much diminished by the comfortable arrangements for travelling at night. Among the grandest natural features of the country, one or other of which should certainly be visited if in any wise practicable, are Niagara Falls, the Yellowstone Park, the Yosemite Valley, Alaska, and the Grand Can[y]on of the Colorado" (page xxiii). As always much of the advice dispensed to the hapless traveller is timeless: Custom House: "The custom-house and examination of the luggage of travellers entering the United States is generally conducted courteously but often with considerable minuteness. Nothing is admitted free of duty except the personal effects of the traveller, and unusually liberal supplies of unworn clothing are apt to be regarded with considerable suspicion" (page xviii). 1893 was a good year for foreigners to travel to America as it was the year of a significant 'panic', which was the start of the greatest depression America had known, only surpassed by the Great Depression of the 1930s. In early May 1893 the New York stock market had dropped sharply, and in late June panic selling caused the stock market to crash. As a result more than 16,000 businesses had failed by the end of 1893, including 156 railroads and nearly 500 banks. The depression lasted for about four years, with the economy showing signs of improvement in 1897. Hinrichsen E259. Catalogued by Kate Hunter
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.
BAEDEKER, Karl.. United States with an excursion into Mexico.. Karl Baedeker Leipsic, 1893.
Price: US$484.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. pp. c, 516, 17 maps and 22 plans, staining along the upper hinge, some repair to the hinges, Charles Scribner's price list pasted down on front endpaper; publisher's red cloth gilt, spine faded; a good copy A scarce first edition. The United States was the first Baedeker originally written in English by J. F. Muirhead, the English editor of the Baedeker Guides. He later published his own series of guidebooks. Issued c.1893. Hinrichsen E261.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
BAEDEKER, Karl.. United States with an Excursion into Mexico.. Karl Baedeker Leipsic, 1893.
Price: US$605.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. pp. c, 516, 17 maps and 22 plans, Charles Scribner's price list pasted down on front endpaper; publisher's red cloth gilt; a fine copy. A scarce first edition. The United States was the first Baedeker originally written in English by J. F. Muirhead, the English editor of the Baedeker Guides. He later published his own series of guidebooks. Issued c.1893. Hinrichsen E259.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo., (6 2/8 x 4 1/8 inches). Half-title. Large folding chromolithographed map of the United States at the end, 16 other maps 22 plans, including many double-page or folding, and 2 floor plans as per the contents (one or two creases, some marginal toning, but BRIGHT AND ATTRACTIVE). Original red cloth, gilt (spine a little faded, extremities just a little touched). First edition, published simultaneously in English. An extensive guide-book, and the first Baedeker related to the United States, with maps and plans of all major cities, and tourist destinations such as Yellowstone National Park, the Battlefield of Gettysburg, the Grand Canyon, the Yosemite, and including Mexico. Including a brief history of the U.S., and extensive section related to the geography of the country, and since the country is so large a range of suggested tours. 1893 was a good year for foreigners to travel to America as it was the year of a significant 'panic', which was the start of the greatest depression America had known, only surpassed by the Great Depression of the 1930s. In early May 1893 the New York stock market had dropped sharply, and in late June panic selling caused the stock market to crash. As a result more than 16,000 businesses had failed by the end of 1893, including 156 railroads and nearly 500 banks. The depression lasted for about four years, with the economy showing signs of improvement in 1897. Hinrichsen D495. Catalogued by Kate Hunter
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$937.50 + shipping
Description: xc, 516 pages. The first Baedeker guide to the United States and the first to be written in English. Hinrichsen E259. First edition (first printing). An exceptional copy, seemingly never opened for reading. Collated complete will all maps, with most, including the large map of the Unites States, never unfolded. There is a very slight bit of fraying to the cloth in three or four places. The spine is slightly dimmed. There is a small previous owner's name on the front free endaper. To top it off, this copy is in the original unprinted dust jacket with the title label affixed to the spine, as was Baedeker's custom in the 1890s. The jacket has some chips and wear at the corners and spine ends, and several folds (it may have been folded and inserted in the book, which is why it survives). A great copy, almost never found this nice, let alone in the jacket. [JSP01; JHG2019].
Seller: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.