Baedeker, Karl,

Palestine and Syria with Routes Through Mesopotamia and Babylonia and the Island of Cyprus.

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1912. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Gilt lettering faded. Former owner's name on half-title page. One map with edgewear. Notes in ink on page 21. Else a handsome and tight copy. ; Marbled edges. 21 maps, 56 plans, and a panorama of Jerusalem. A very handsome copy. Hinrichsen E 258 ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 462 pages. Very Good+.

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Book number: 20629

Catalogue: Middle East

Baedeker, Karl,

Palestine and Syria with the Chief Routes Through Mesopotamia and Babylonia. Handbook for Travellers.

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1906. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Spine outer covering split and with small tears along the joints. Light occasional dampstaining, not affecting readabilty or maps. Pages a bit browned. A few neat notes and underlining from previous owner. ; With 20 maps, 52 plans, and a panorama of Jerusalem. Very rare note bound-in before title page: "The excessive zeal of the Turkish censorship sometimes even extends to the confiscation of guide-books. The traveller is therefore advised to place this volume in his pocket before crossing the Turkish frontier or entering a Turkish port". Hinrichsen E 257; 16mo - 6" to 7" tall; 436 pages. Very Good-.

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Book number: 21104

Catalogue: Near East

Baedeker, Karl,

Palestine and Syria with the Chief Routes Through Mesopotamia and Babylonia. Handbook for Travellers.

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1906. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Edges and pages a bit tanned. Light rubbing to spine heels ; With 20 maps, 52 plans, and a panorama of Jerusalem. Very rare note bound-in before title page: "The excessive zeal of the Turkish censorship sometimes even extends to the confiscation of guide-books. The traveller is therefore advised to place this volume in his pocket before crossing the Turkish frontier or entering a Turkish port". The traveller is therefore advised to place this volume in his pocket before crossing the Turkish frontier or entering a Turkish port". The traveller is therefore advised to place this volume in his pocket before crossing the Turkish frontier or entering a Turkish port".; 16mo - 6" to 7" tall; 436 pages. Very Good+.

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Book number: 17410

Catalogue: Near East

Karl Baedeker

Palestine and Syria

Not Stated, Karl Baedeker, 1898. Cloth. An early edition describing Palestine and Syria, complete with folding maps and a folding panorama. The first edition to include the Peninsula of Sinai. Lacking a title page; dated and edition established by the pagination.The third edition.Complete with twenty maps and forty-eight plans, including the folding rear endpaper, and one folding panorama. Collated, complete besides the lacking title page. In the original full cloth binding. Externally very smart; a touch of wear to the head of the spine. Front endpaper and title page have been removed. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are occasionally a touch spotted, with some odd age toning to the edges. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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Book number: 798R4

Catalogue: Asia

Keywords: Palestine and Syria Middle East Karl Baedeker Baedeker Guides Middle East Topography None

Karl Baedeker

Palestine and Syria Handbook for Travellers

Leipzig , Karl Baedeker, 1906. Cloth. A fourth edition copy of this guide to Palestine and Syria with folding maps and plans. A fourth edition guide to Palestine and Syria with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia. This handbook guide the traveller through the Middle East, with notes on hotels, transport, money, equipment and with commentary on the history, language and geography. With the rare slip bound to the title page that states "The excessive zeal of the Turkish censorship sometimes even extends to the confiscation of guide-books. The traveller is therefore advised to place this volume in his pocket before crossing the Turkish frontier or entering a Turkish port".With twenty maps, fifty two plans and a panorama of Jerusalem.Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally lovely with some light fading to the head and tail of the spine. Previous owner inscription to the front free endpaper and half title page. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .

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Book number: 850B85

Catalogue: Middle East

Keywords: Palestine and Syria Handbook for Travellers middle east travel handbook middle east Not Stated

BAEDEKER, Karl [Ludwig Johannes], 1801-1859

[Sinai] Palestine and Syria; Handbook for Travellers

Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1898. Cloth. Third Edition, revised and augmented (the Peninsula of Sinai is new to this edition). cxviii,472pp, profusely illustrated with 20 maps and 48 plans (many folding) and a panorama of Jerusalem. Publisher's red flexible cloth stamped in blind and gilt, all edges marbled, green silk page-maker. Near Fine, pages and plates supple though marginally toned, binding square and tight with bright gilt, maps properly folded and free of repairs, neat marginal notes in pencil to several sections, light stain to front paste-down. Provenance: Ink inscription, dated 1905, San Francisco, of Wallace Bradford to front fly-leaf. (Seven years later, Bradford witnessed the sinking of the Titanic from aboard the steamer Carpathia, and wrote a thrilling account of the rescue of 710 people early on the morning of April 15, 1912.) An unusually well-preserved copy. Hinrichsen E256. "The Romantic movement in Germany had given a new impetus to travel . In 1828 Baedeker bought the rights to J. A. Klein's Rheinreise von Mainz bis Köln and, after the death of the author, Baedeker himself revised and updated the work, recreating it for a new market. Using his own travel experiences he guided the tourist to the principal attractions in each place, saving travellers the expense of hiring their own guide. He thus created a new type of guidebook, which was widely copied throughout Europe and opened up tourism to a new class of visitor. The reliability of the information was ensured by annual journeys by Baedeker himself and by reference to respected published sources and expert scholars. For the serious tourist a Baedeker was indispensable, its tone, especially with respect to southern Europeans, assuring northerners of their superiority, and suggesting ways of avoiding dangers. When Lucy Honeychurch finds herself ‘In Santa Croce with no Baedeker' in E. M. Forster's A Room with a View (1908) she is entirely lost." (ODNB) Note: With few exceptions (always noted), we only stock Baedekers in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene wrappers. Near Fine .

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Book number: BB1005

Catalogue: XIX CENTURY