Author: (SPAIN -- TRAVEL)
Title: Nagel's Encyclopedia-Guide: Spain
Description: Geneva, Nagel Publishers, 1973. Hardcover. 16mo. Red leatherette with gilt lettering, dust jacket. 1504pp. Line drawings, numerous color foldout maps and city plans, map/text endpapers, sewn-in red silk page marker. Near fine/near fine. Fourth edition of the English version of this small but thick-as-a-brick exhaustively thorough travel guide and reference work combo (first published in this form 1953). From the collection of Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), U.S. Senator from Illinois (1969-81) -- and on leaf facing title page are inked some travel notes and oddball observations ("..Burgos -- Buitrago!!! bought [?] can openers, old castle, road to river old bridge. On route stoney fields, stone walls, barnyards, tile roofs. Man on horse taking 6 cows to field"), likely in Stevenson's hand. A fun, unusual copy. .
Keywords: Travel & Exploration
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Title: Nagel's Encyclopedia-Guide: Spain
Description: Geneva, Nagel Publishers, 1973. Hardcover. 16mo. Red leatherette with gilt lettering, dust jacket. 1504pp. Line drawings, numerous color foldout maps and city plans, map/text endpapers, sewn-in red silk page marker. Near fine/near fine. Fourth edition of the English version of this small but thick-as-a-brick exhaustively thorough travel guide and reference work combo (first published in this form 1953). From the collection of Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), U.S. Senator from Illinois (1969-81) -- and on leaf facing title page are inked some travel notes and oddball observations ("..Burgos -- Buitrago!!! bought [?] can openers, old castle, road to river old bridge. On route stoney fields, stone walls, barnyards, tile roofs. Man on horse taking 6 cows to field"), likely in Stevenson's hand. A fun, unusual copy. .
Keywords: Travel & Exploration
Price: US$ 55.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 47466
- Book number: 47466
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