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Auction 172, Lot 535

"Italy from the Alps to Naples Handbook for Travellers", Baedeker, Karl

Subject: Italy

Period: 1909 (published)

Publication:

Color: Printed Color

Size:
4.4 x 6.4 inches
11.2 x 16.3 cm
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This compact travel guide specifically designed for the tourist "is designed for the use of travelers who have only four or five weeks at their disposal." This second edition guidebook takes the reader from Geneva to Naples and provides information on directions, hotels, restaurants, sites of interest, and more. Highly detailed, it includes 25 maps and 52 plans per the title page. Includes folding maps of northern Italy (frontispiece), Venice, Florence, Rome, and Naples to name a few. 16mo., 398 pages. Red cloth with gilt titles, marbled fore-edges, and two attached ribbon bookmarks. Complete with its original brown dust jacket.

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Condition: B+

Contents, including maps, are very good to mostly near fine with only occasional light toning. The binding has light shelf wear and the dust jacket has one small tear above the title.

Estimate: $150 - $180

Unsold

Closed on 4/17/2019

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