Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: C, 579 Pp + Folding Map At End. Red Cloth, Gilt. Yellow Endpapers Except Front Pastedown Which Has List Of 24 Baedeker Guides, Including This One, Available From The Scribner's Store In Ny, The Exclusive Agent In The Us. Elaborately Engraved Bookplate Of California Author Charles Francis Saunders And His Wife And Illustrator Elisabeth Hallowell. Front Cover And Spine Detached, As Is The Rear Endpaper With The Attached Folding Map. A Few Pencil Notes By Saunders On Rear Pastedown
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 12mo; 579 pp; 2nd edition revised and 1899 stated on title page, in original covers. Published by Karl Baedeker. Book has previous owner's name, maps neatly folded away, light green fly leaf detached, covers chipped and very weak at the hinges but holding, missing 1/2 inch of cover at top of spine, pages unmarked.
Seller: GLOVER'S BOOKERY, ABAA, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$92.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Baedeker, Karl. The United States, with an excursion into Mexico : handbook for travellers / edited by Karl Baedeker ; with 19 maps and 24 plans. Second revised edition. Leipsic: Karl Baedeker Publishers, 1899. Softback, Good. Soft red cloth with blind frame and gilt lettering to front and spine. The colour is badly bleched to all surfaces, with a few small marks. Binding good, but weakening along the inner gutters. Yellow endpapers, bleached to edges. 1903 ownership inscription to ffep. and pencilled signature to half-title. c, 579pp., colour maps. Foldout map at the rear has a tear and has been folded untidily. Green bookmark. Occasional foxing spots, but generally the contents clean and bright. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.
Seller: RightWayUp Books, Woodbridge, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Price: US$102.66 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Rebacked, with new leather spine and original boards which are discoloured, stained and rubbed, spine has gilt decs with printed paper title label. Some tanning and staining within, tape repairs to gutters, marbling faded to closed edges, tears to fly title, rear map has several tape repairs, notes to last index page and rear endpaper but majority of pages, maps and plans are clean and bright. Size: 16mo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Baedeker, Karl. The United States With An Excursion Into Mexico. Leipsic Karl Baedeker 1899, 1899.
Price: US$112.74 + shipping
Description: Second Edition. c; 579pp. 16mo. Bound in original blind stamped red cloth with gilt lettering on the cover and spine. Marble edges on textblock. Top edge slightly dust soiled. One ribbon marker. Yellow coated end papers with advertisement on front paste down. Includes 19 maps and 24 plans. Slight wear to the spine and corners. A few browned pages. Some underlining in orange pencil. Cracked hinge otherwise in good condition. Owner's inscription on front free end paper. This title was first published in 1893 and was the first Baedeker to be originally written in English.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Baedeker, Karl. The United States with an Excursion Into Mexico. Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1899.
Price: US$128.33 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Second revised ed. Rebacked with leather spine, gilt decs and original cloth title relaid, cloth boards tanned. Lacks endpapers. Tan stains throughout prelims and also rear indexes. Lacks rear map. Remaining contents clear and bright. Size: 16mo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A solid, presentable copy of the "second revised edition". Tight and VG in its red cloth, with even, pronounced fading to the panels. Gilt-titling along the front cover and spine still bright. Internally clean, with all 10 maps and 24 plans crisp and bright. 16mo, the first Baedeker title published originally in English. Large fold-out map of The States (which shows one small tear) at the rear pastedown.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "The Handbook to the United States, undertaken in response to repeated requests from British and American tourists, is intended to help the traveler in planning his tour and disposing of his time to the best advantage and thus to enable him the more thoroughly to enjoy and appreciate the objects of interest he meets with. The writer is Mr. J.F. Muirhead, M.A., who has for several years taken part in the English editions of Baedeker's Handbooks, and has personally visited the greater part of the districts described." - Preface. This incredible guidebook to late-19th century America was published in Leipzig by Karl Baedeker in 1899. Its 550+ pages, designed as a reference tome for tourists, provide a fascinating perspective on the contemporary culture, transportation system, economic landscape, physical composition, and political institutions of the United States. Recommendations are provided for local places of interest and various accommodations. Folding maps present detailed street plans of the nation's most prominent cities, including New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington, D.C., New Orleans, and San Francisco. According to California State University Northridge, "Baedeker's travel guides, produced by publisher Karl Baedeker and his descendants beginning in the 1830s, were hugely popular with European audiences travelling around neighboring European nations and the far-flung reaches of their colonial empires. Baedeker wanted travelers to find all the information they needed about transportation, accommodations, restaurants, tipping, local sights, average prices, local cultural practices, and more within his travel guides. He did not invent the travel guide, but the quantity of detailed information included in every Baedeker volume resulted in their overwhelming popularity. Indeed, the word "Baedekers" was almost universally used when referring to travel guides for several decades, and the guides were hugely influential in shaping the way Europeans interacted with and experienced non-European cultures through the early 20th century." Sources: Cal State University; Columbia University;" Sheet Width (in) 6.25 Sheet Height (in) 4.5 Condition Description 579 pp. bound in original red cloth with gilt title and spine. Front endpaper with old owners inscription is loose and one of the folding maps is disbound and has severe separation along fold lines. Includes 26 folding maps, fewer than described in the table of contents, but single page plans were not included in the count. About good condition overall.
Seller: Curtis Wright Maps, Berwyn, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$170.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 579. Flyleaf loose, owner's name and date on it. cover little worn, spine faded. O/w VG.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Second revised edition. 16mo. 579pp. Gilt-stamped red cloth. Illustrated with nineteen maps and thirty-four plans. Cloth stained, fold-out map in pieces but laid in, hinges cracked, loss of spine and endpapers, thus fair only.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$194.25 + shipping
Description: 16mo. pp. c, 579, [1]. with half-title. 19 maps & 23 (of 24) plans (most in colour, many folding or double-page, several building plans). lacking plan of Washington. index. original cloth (cloth soiled, spine discoloured, front paste-down wrinkled, edges of half-title chipped, rear free-endpaper & general map detached). Second Edition. Hinrichsen E260.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Baedeker, Karl. THE UNITED STATES: With an Excursion into Mexico. Karl Baedeker, Leipsic, 1899.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Description: Second revised edition. First Baedeker originally written in English. Includes 19 color maps and 24 color "plans" (also maps), many of which are double or folding. 16mo gilt-stamped red cloth over flexible boards; all edges marbled; ribbon place marker; 579 pages including index. Name on first blank, small chip to rear free endpaper, covers in very good to near fine condition with only few tiny areas of boards exposed. The maps & plans, all of which have been accounted for, are altogether near fine with only a few showing marginal foxing -- with the exception of the large U.S. map at rear which has been pasted down along its left side, evidently to stop a longish tear there, and is showing a few splits and tears at folds. Still, scarce in this overall nice condition.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
BAEDEKER, Karl. The United States; with an Excursion into Mexico. Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1899.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Complete with 19 maps and 24 city plans, in color, most folding. c, 579pp. 18mo, contemporary full black leather, lower left corner of page 9 lacking with small loss of text, a few pages with slight underlining, some margins lightly soiled, otherwise very good. Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1899. Second Revised Edition. Large map of the United States and several other folding maps are linen-backed. City plans include New York, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. The first edition, published in 1893, was the first Baedeker written in English.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1043.29 + shipping
Description: Usual limp red cloth, lettered gilt, ruled in blind. Decorative bookplate to paste-down, green silk marker, c+579pp, all maps and plans as called for. Cloth browning (usual with this edition), a good tight copy with just light signs of use and a tiny amount of fraying to spine head. Small tie mark to leading edge, very occasional neat ink annotations - presumably in Mr Horniman's hand? Emslie John Horniman's decorative woodcut "Garden Corner Chelsea" by Robert Anning Bell ex-libris/bookplate to paste-down.
Seller: Marijana Dworski Books, Presteigne, POWYS, United Kingdom