JOANNE,PAUL - Bordeaux. Arcachon. Royan. Soulac-les-Bains

Paris 1883, 56/167/92 pp., engravings, 147pp. advertisements, Travel guide from the Collection Joanne Guides Diamant. Everything the traveller might want or need to know: first rate hotels, second rate hotels, omnibus and its timetable, tramways, cafés-concerts, concerts-promenades and so on. Includes 146 pages of advertisements: hôtels des princes, hôtels des ambassadeurs, hôtels de France and hôtels de l’univers, not only in the region indicated but all over France. Special bonus: travellers who can show a copy of the book are allowed access to the caves of Mercier at Épernay, Champagne; still worth a try (code B-313)