Author: K. Baedeker
Title: Paris and Its Environs
Description: Leipzig; London, Karl Baedker; Dulau and Co, 1878. Cloth. The sixth edition of Baedker's popular travel guide to Paris in the nineteenth century, illustrated with folding colour maps of the city. The sixth edition of this popular work.Illustrated with a folding map to the frontispiece, fourteen colour folding and double-paged maps, and plans throughout.Collated, complete.Baedeker's important travel guide to Paris during the nineteenth century, this guide offering a comprehensive history of the city as it was in the aftermath of the tumultuous political eras of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.Baedeker was a pioneering publishing house of worldwide travel guides, founded in 1827 and still being popular today. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Some rubbing and marks to the boards and spine. Light bumping to the spine and extremities. Small cracks to the head of the joints, head of the spine lifting a little. Hinges are strained. Rear hinge is repaired with aged tape. Bound without the front endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound, binding strained in one place towards the rear of the textblock. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean. Folding map to the frontispiece is a little torn. Prior owner's ink inscription to the head of the title page. One of the maps is torn in half, with a tape repair to one of the folds. One folding map is torn with a tape repair. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

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