Author: Maude M. Holbach
Title: Dalmatia: The Land Where East Meets West
Description: London, John Land, The Bodley Head , 1908. Cloth. An early edition of this scarce travel book on Dalmatia, the historical region of Croatia, with monochrome plates throughout. The second edition of this work.Undated, dated from identical copy held institutionally. Illustrated with forty-seven monochrome plates, including a frontispiece, and a folding map to the rear. Collated complete. This is Maude M. Holbach's second book of travel in Eastern Europe, offering a descriptive account of the historical region of Dalmatia, Croatia. With photographs taken by her travel companion husband, they meet with historians and government officials to learn of the wonders of the country. They journey to major historical sites in Dalmatia, such as Zara and Spalato, among others.With an uncut leaf of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original cloth binding with illustrative crest to the front. Externally, with damp staining to the boards and sunning to the spine. With rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with offsetting to the endpapers and the odd spot. Good . Ill.: O. Holbach. Good .

Keywords: Europe History Dalmatia Illustrated History O. Holbach


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