ACCUM, Friedrich Christian (1769-1838)

[Hand-Colored] a Practical Treatise on Gas-Light : Exhibiting a Summary Description of the Apparatus and Machinery Best Calculated for Illuminating Streets, Houses, and Manufactories, with Carburetted Hydrogen, or Coal-Gas / with Remarks on the Utility, Safety, and General Nature of This New Branch of CIVIL Economy

London, Stereotyped and printed by Davies and Michael, 19, Poppins' Court, Fleet Street; for R. Ackermann, 101, Strand: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster Row; and J. Hatchard, Piccadilly, 1815. Original Boards. A superb survival, untrimmed in original boards, of the first book to describe and widely influence installation of gas lighting in London and other metropolises. Royal 8vo (252 x 149mm): xvii,[1],194,6pp, with folding hand-colored frontispiece and 6 hand-colored plates (one folding) of machinery and various light fixtures and chandeliers. Original drab paper-covered boards, paper title label printed in black to spine. Engraved armorial book plate to front paste-down. An excellent wide-margined example, tightly bound, with virtually pristine pages and plates. Abbey (Life) 436. Second Edition (so stated), issued the same year as the first. In 1810, when the London Chartered Gaslight and Coke Company was formed, Accum was nominated one of its engineers. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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ALKEN, Henry Thomas (1785-1851); C. F. G. R. Schwerdt (introduces)

[Fox Hunting] [Sports and Pastimes] a Panorama of the Progress of Human Life : Fashionably Displayed, Illustrating "Shakespeare's Ages" and Exhibiting the Manners, Costume, Character and Field Sports of the English People ; the Whole Illustrative of Modern Character, in a Series of Many Hundred Moving Figures [Signed]

London, published by S. and J. Fuller, 34 Rathbone Place / privately printed [by Waterlow & Sons Limited] by the Author of "Hunting Hawking Shooting, 1930. First Edition thus. Card Covers. First Paperback Edition of Alken's most detailed work, the forerunner of Nimrod's The Life of a Sportsman. Oblong folio (348 x 445mm): 10pp, including title-page vignette, colored portrait of Alken and facsimiles of 11 wrappers on one plate, and photographic illustration of the scroll case, followed by 35 colored aquatint scenes (miniature adaptations of plates in National Field Sports), depicting incidents in the life of a squire's son, mounted on five stiff-card leaves. Original publisher's mottled tan card covers lettered in black. Signed by the editor, C. F. G. R. Schwerdt, on limitation leaf. A pristine example in the original publisher's stiff card decorated envelope, lightly nicked. Originally published in scroll form, in 1820, the Panorama is extremely scarce; in the preface Schwerdt states: "apart from the writer's own copy, only one other complete specimen has come to his notice during the forty-five years that he has been collecting." Four hundred copies of this edition were published: this is no. 4 of 250 copies printed for Great Britain, with a further 150 copies for sale by Ernest R. Gee, in New York. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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ANDREWS, William (1848-1908)

Famous Frosts and Frost Fairs in Great Britain. Chronicled from the Earliest to the Present Time

London, George Redway, 1887. Limited Edition. Original Cloth. No. 376 of 400 copies printed. Thin, square 8vo: viii,91,[1]pp, with frontispiece ("Frost fair on the River Thames, in 1814") and two full-page engravings ("Frost Fair on the Thames in the reign of Charles II" and "Frost Fair on the Thames"). Publisher's finely woven black cloth, beveled boards, spine and upper cover ruled and lettered in gilt, back cover ruled in blind, top edge gilded, coated and mottled end papers, title page in red and black. Fine copy of this scarce work on the winter festivals of the Little Ice Age. Between 1400 and 1835, the Thames froze over 24 times, and merchants and manufacturers moved their various industries onto the ice (frost fairs were even far more common on the Continent, especially in the Netherlands). During the Great Frost of 1683-84, the worst recorded in England, the Thames was frozen over for two months, with the ice reaching a thickness of 11 inches in London. The final frost, in 1814, when an elephant was led across the river below Blackfriars Bridge, began on February 1 and lasted just four days. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Keywords: Ice on rivers, lakes, etc. -- Great Britain. Fairs. Ice on rivers, lakes, etc. Great Britain -- Fairs.

ANDRIESSEN, P. J. (Pieter Jacob, 1815-1877)

[Movable Book] [Novelty Book] [Paper Engineering] Wat Er Alzoo in de Wereld Te Zien Is. Een Aardig Boek Voor Kinderen, Met Bijschriften

Amsterdam, G. Theod. Bom, 1874. Pictorial Wrappers. Crown 8vo (180 x 128mm): [8]pp, with six color lithographs (printed by Emrik & Binger, Haarlem), each with flaps that, when flipped, reveal a completely different image (a ship at sea becomes Bedouins in the desert, a volcano erupts into walruses in the Arctic, Native Americans transform into explorers in the Rockies), taking the viewer on a tour around the world. Each illustration actually consists of two illustrations made from strips of paper which slide across each other. The reader pulls a card tab, and the scene slides to one side to reveal a different scene. The accompanying text guides the reader through these twists and turns. Original burnt orange illustrated card wrappers printed in green, gold, and terracotta and lettered in black. A superbly preserved example of this fragile production, all but pristine, rare, with Worldcat Discovery listing only one copy and LHD none. For more than 700 years book designers have been pushing back the boundaries of the two-dimensional page, adding flaps and rotating parts to enhance the text, most often in scientific literature. But only in the nineteenth century did movable flaps became a regular feature in children's books. In the Netherlands, ‘De nieuwe rijschool' [The new riding school], published in 1856, was the first movable children's book, which reached their peak in the 1870s and 1880s. Gerardus Theodorus Bom (1814-1884) was a Dutch publisher of books in Amsterdam, issuing such titles as Kindervreugd (1864), Robinson Crusoë (c.1865), and Kunstenmakers at work (1875). Andriessen's first books were published under the pseudonym Pieter Jacobsz. Under his own name he wrote a series of romantic stories for young people, mainly derived from Dutch national history. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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[Coronations] a Complete Account of the Ceremonies Observed in the Coronations of the Kings and Queens of England. Containing, I. The Form of the Royal Letters of Summons... . II. The Usual Disposition of the Horse and Foot-Guards, and Their Respective Habits, Parades, and Stations on the Coronation-Day. III. The Apparelling and Robing of the King and Queen... IV. The Marshalling and Conducting Into Westminster-Hall... V. Their Majesties Entring the Said Hall, and the Ceremony of Presenting the Regalia, &C. To the King. VI. The Grand Proceeding to the Coronation... VII. The Usual Ceremony of the Coronations As Performed in the Church. VIII. The Manner of Their Majesties Return to Westminster-Hall. IX. The Ceremony of the Champion's Challenge, and of the Heralds Proclaiming the King's Style in Latin, French, and English. X. A Description of the Royal and Sacred Ornaments, and of the Crowns and Scepters, &C... . XI the Ceremony of the Proceedings at the Coronations of King William and Queen Mary, of Queen Anne, and of His Late Majesty King George I... XII. A Complete List of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, the Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, and of the Knights of the Bath... XIII. A Bill of Fare at a Former Coronation-Feast. With Many Other Notable Particulars, for Which the Reader Is Referred to the Index. The Whole Adorn'd with Curious Cuts... To Which Is Also Prefix'd a Very Large and Curious Copper-Plate, Exhibiting (in That of King William and Queen Mary) the Magnificent Form of the Procession Usually Observed in the Coronation of the Kings and Queens of England

London, Printed for J. Roberts, in Warwick-Lane; J. Stagg, in Westminster Hall; and D. Browne, without Temple-Bar, 1727. Quarter-bound Leather. Third Edition (with price 2s. 6d below imprint in square brackets). Full of fascinating information relating to the etiquette and procedure of royal ceremonies. Small 4to (210 x 155mm): 80pp, with large folding copper-engraved frontispiece, "Procession of Kings and Queens with over 150 robed figures" (measuring a full 440 mm x 350 mm), a second folding engraving, "The Manner of the Champions, performing the Ceremony of ye Challenge," and 12 woodcuts in the text depicting various ceremonial objects, including crowns, maces, scepters, and coronation rings. Bound in early (possibly contemporary) quarter sheep with marbled boards, red morocco lettering piece gilt, all edges marbled. Bookplate of Buddle Atkinson to front paste-down. A sturdy, unsophisticated copy, frontispiece slightly spotted along folds, sporadic light soiling and browning, binding rubbed along spine and corners, but an excellent example of a scarce book. ESTC Citation No. T113877. Lowndes 526. Bindley pt. vi, 1039. Not in Halkett & Laing. Buddle Atkinson's bookplate appears in Hugo's Catalogue of Thomas Bewick's works, but it is, in fact, engraved on steel, not wood, and came from the workshop of Mark Lambert, one of Bewick's pupils. The plate was designed and engraved by George F. Robinson, who joined Lambert's workshop in 1841 and who, in the course of 50 years, became chief engraver and director of all art works carried out by the firm. The plate was produced when Atkinson (b.1841) was a young child, perhaps for putting in books that had been owned by his father, John Buddle, so it likely dates from 1845-1850. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Near Fine+ .

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Keywords: Coronations—Great Britain. Germany—History—843-1273.

LEGRAND d'AUSSY, Pierre Jean Baptiste (1737-1800); Thomas Bewick [Illustrates]

Fabliaux, or, Tales Abridged from French Manuscripts of the Xiith and Xiiith Centuries. By M. Le Grand ; Selected and Translated Into English Verse, by the Late G.L. Way, Esq. ; with a Preface, Notes, and Appendix, by the Late G. Ellis, Esq

London, Printed for J. Rodwell, (successor to Mr. Faulder,) New Bond Street, by S. Hamilton, Weybridge, Surrey, 1815. Half-Calf. A New Edition, Corrected. In three volumes." Crown 8vo (191 x 127mm): [4],xli,[3],223,[1]; [4],272; [2],304pp, with 52 woodcuts (title-page vignettes, head- and tailpieces) by John and Thomas Bewick, Charlton Nesbit, and Luke Clennell. Bound by Orrock & Son in half-burgundy morocco, marbled sides and end papers; top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Provenance: Signature opposite title page of volume one and half titles of volumes two and three of Robert Pitcairn, dated Dec. 1823. Nineteenth century armorial book plate of Walter King (lion sejant erect ppr. holding between its paws an escallop arg.) and a second book plate (possibly Maurice Harlay's) with motto "Deo et regi." An excellent set (preliminaries lightly spotted), tightly bound and clean throughout with rich impressions of the cuts. Hugo 4279. Tattersfield TB2.167. Reprint of the first edition of 1796-1800 (Hugo 95), a collection of fables and tales gleaned from manuscripts in the Bibliothèque Nationale when Le Grand was conservator of manuscripts after the Revolution in 1795. Pitcairn (1793-1855) was a Scottish antiquary and author of Criminal trials and other Proceedings before the High Court of the Judiciary in Scotland (1829-1833). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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Keywords: Fabliaux — Translations into English. French poetry — To 1500 — Translations into English. Tales, Medieval. English poetry — Translations from French (Old French)

BAEDEKER, Karl [Ludwig Johannes], 1801-1859

Belgium and Holland, Including the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg; Handbook for Travellers

Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1905. Cloth. Fourteenth Edition, revised and augmented. lxx, 474pp, with 15 maps and 30 plans. A superb copy with bright gilt lettering and 2 ribbon page-makers (one loose and laid in); the red flexible cloth covers clean, unfaded, square and tight, the maps properly folded and free of tears. Hinrichsen E193. "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. Fine .

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BAEDEKER, Karl [Ludwig Johannes], 1801-1859

Belgium and Holland Including the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg ; Handbook for Travellers

Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1894. Cloth. Eleventh Edition, Revised and Augmented. lxii, 423pp, with 13 maps and 21 plans. An exceptionally Fine, virtually pristine, copy, with brilliant gilt lettering, one (of two) woven silk page-makers, and unfaded, richly marbled edges; the red flexible cloth covers unmarked, bright, square and tight, the maps properly folded and free of tears. Hinrichsen E190. "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. Fine+ .

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BAEDEKER, Karl [Ludwig Johannes], 1801-1859

Eastern Alps Including the Bavarian Highlands, Tyrol, Salzburg, Upper and Lower Austria, Styria, Carinthia and Carniola ; Handbook for Travellers

Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1899. Cloth. Ninth Edition, Revised and Augmented. xxvi, 568pp. with 47 maps, 10 plans, and 7 panoramas. An exceptional copy, with bright gilt lettering, one (of two) woven silk page-makers, and richly marbled edges; the red flexible cloth covers unmarked, square and tight, the maps properly folded and free of tears. Hinrichsen E050. "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. Fine .

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BAEDEKER, Karl [Ludwig Johannes], 1801-1859

[Germany] the Rhine Including the Black Forest & the Vosges; Handbook for Travellers

Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1911. Cloth. Seventeenth Revised Edition. xxxiv, 554pp, 69 maps and 59 plans. A superb copy with bright gilt lettering, 2 ribbon page-makers (one detached and laid in) and lightly faded and soiled marbled edges; the red flexible cloth covers clean, unfaded, square and tight, the maps properly folded and free of tears. Hinrichsen E017. "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. Fine .

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BAEDEKER, Karl [Ludwig Johannes], 1801-1859

[Germany] the Rhine from the Dutch to the Alsatian Frontier; Handbook for Travellers

Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1926. Cloth. Eighteenth Revised Edition. xlii, 422pp, with 49 maps and 53 plans (37 town plans, 16 floor plans). Publisher's red flexible decorative cloth stamped in blind and gilt with all edges marbled and two silk page-maker. A superb copy with bright gilt lettering and richly marbled edges; the binding bright, square, and tight, the maps properly folded and free of tears. Hinrichsen E018. "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. Fine .

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BAEDEKER, Karl [Ludwig Johannes], 1801-1859

[Italy, Comprising] I. Northern Italy Including Leghorn, Florence, Ravenna and Routes Through France, Switzerland, and Austria; [with] II. Central Italy and Rome; [and] III. Southern Italy and Sicily with Excursions to Sardinia, Malta, and Corfu; Handbook for Travellers

Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, Publisher, [various]. [various]. Stamped Cloth. An excellent 3-volume set (each volume issued separately) of early editions for the traveler wanting a handy panoramic survey of the entire country, in matching bindings. Foolscap 8vo (158 x 99mm): lxviii,698, with 36 maps, 45 plans, and panorama of the Alps; lxxvi,470, with 14 maps, 49 plans, table of coats of arms of the Popes since 1417, panorama, view of Forum Romanum and 14pp street index of Rome; lvi,508pp, with 30 maps and 34 plans. Publisher's red flexible cloth stamped in blind and gilt, all edges marbled. Gilt lettering bright; bindings clean, square and tight; maps properly folded and mostly free of tears. All are unusually well-preserved copies, Fine, fresh, and bright but for owner's signature to front paste-down and title page of vol. 1; lightly rubbed spine ends of vol. III. Northern: Fourteenth Remodeled Edition (1913). Light underlining in pencil (erasable) to early pages, else fresh and bright; one map with neat tape repair. Central: Fourteenth Revised Edition (1904). One map with short closed tear. Southern: Sixteenth Revised Edition (1912). Red and green page markers detached but laid in. A superb set (and scarce thus). Baedekers were bought to be used under less than ideal circumstances; as such, their condition is rarely (if ever) perfectly pristine. Hinrichsen E141, E156, E174. "The Romantic movement in Germany had given a new impetus to travel . In 1828, [Karl] Baedeker bought the rights to J. A. Klein's Rheinreise von Mainz bis Köln and, after Klein's death, 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 Forster's A Room with a View, 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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BAEDEKER, Karl [Ludwig Johannes], 1801-1859

Northern France from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire Excluding Paris and Its Environs; [with] Southern France and Corsica; Handbook for Travellers

Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1914. Cloth. A complete two-volume set (each volume issued separately) of early editions for the traveler wanting a handy panoramic survey of the entire country, in matching bindings. Foolscap 8vo (158 x 99mm): xxxvi,454pp, with 16 maps and 55 plans (some folding); xxvi,648pp, with 42 maps, 63 plans, and a panorama. Publisher's red flexible cloth stamped in blind and gilt, all edges marbled, red and green silk page-makers. Northern: Fifth (and final) Edition. Southern: Sixth Revised Edition. Both volumes fine, all but unused (and scarce thus), bindings square and tight, richly marbled edges, pages and plans fresh and bright, maps properly folded and generally free of tears. A superb set. (Guide books were bought to be used, and as such their condition is rarely pristine.) Hinrichsen E119a and E126. "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) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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BAEDEKER, Karl [Ludwig Johannes], 1801-1859

Russland [Russia]

Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1897. Cloth. Fourth Edition. lii, 458pp, with 14 maps, 18 plans, and 4 floor plans. An exceptional copy (preliminaries and subsequent page edges toned), with bright gilt lettering, one (of two) woven silk page-maker, and richly marbled edges; the red flexible cloth covers unmarked, square and tight, the maps properly folded and free of tears. Hinrichsen D460. "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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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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